Joker, Brian Azzarello. (Art by Lee Bermejo)
Let's, very quickly, get the basic thing out of the way. There's no loving Brian Azzarello. In fact, if you really get down to the mean, dirty detail (because that's all there is to him), there's only being repulsed. And horrified, let's not forget that. With a swagger and a smile, the Joker returns from the asylum to take back what is his. While they turn Gotham into a toilet, he just sits there. (He just shits there.) The whole comic is building up to one single punch-line, not the Joker's, although those are pretty amazing. The gruesome, the ugly, the twisted, the terrible: All these Azzarello builds, only to bring them down with a single tug. All these, Azzarello crashes - with one single panel, one beautifully chiselled jaw, one Batman - and one single line.
Let's, very quickly, get the basic thing out of the way. There's no loving Brian Azzarello. In fact, if you really get down to the mean, dirty detail (because that's all there is to him), there's only being repulsed. And horrified, let's not forget that. With a swagger and a smile, the Joker returns from the asylum to take back what is his. While they turn Gotham into a toilet, he just sits there. (He just shits there.) The whole comic is building up to one single punch-line, not the Joker's, although those are pretty amazing. The gruesome, the ugly, the twisted, the terrible: All these Azzarello builds, only to bring them down with a single tug. All these, Azzarello crashes - with one single panel, one beautifully chiselled jaw, one Batman - and one single line.
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