Parting Shot: These Animated GIFs Of Greg Capullo's 'Batman' Covers Are Kind Of Creepy

I had thought that the general consensus towards Snyder's Batman was positive, but looking at these comments, I guess I was wrong.

I've been reading New 52 Batman since the beginning, and while the series took some time to grow on me, I've really fallen in love with it. Snyder has a great literary sensibility, and it's hard to beat Greg Capullo when it comes to visual storytelling. I have a feeling that most of these "Saw" comparisons are by people who haven't actually read the book, but I'm genuinely curious to hear from people that actually have read the series as to why they don't like it.

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Wow, really? There is no pleasing anyone these days. Snyder's Batman line has been a revelation. His writing is tight, the pace it fantastic as is the dialogue. As far as the complaints about the joker, I have no idea what everyone is talking about. Two of the most revered stories ever written about the Clown Prince of Crime has him shooting and paralyzing Barbra Gordon just to show he could break Jim (as if having him naked in a cage as a "freak-show" attraction wasn't enough). The other "The Joker's Five Way Revenge", where he ruthlessly hunts down and terrorizes his old goons – one of which os wheelchair bound and tossed to a shark.

You want goofy, weird prankster Joker, go buy the campy 60 Series on DVD. The REAL Joker is twisted. Always has been in print.

Man, that guy is seriously ****** up.

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Bottom line is since the new 52 began Batman has become nothing but a horror comic, and I don't mean just the Batman title. Add Detective in there, and Batman the Dark knight. Batman and Robin is the only one so far that is not horribly disgusting. It's ridiculous how bad it is. I'm tired of seeing people in these magazines hacked to pieces. It's just gross. Get some villains he can actually fight. The Joker needs to be killed or good, He's just horribly disgusting. This whole thing with his face being cut off is ridiculous.

You know what? I am sick and tired of Joker stories where he just kills people all the time with no conceivable gain in a way that isn't even funny. The Joker's deal, IMHO, isn't that he's smarter than Batman or "supersane," it's that he doesn't take Batman seriously. He's the guy who doesn't want to kill Batman; he wants to make him laugh. There's nothing laughable or intelligent about this. If you saw most of this in a latter-day Saw movie, you wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

If I ever write the Joker, I'm going to write a story where he floods Gotham with melted cheese, then attempts to charge the city for the service. I'd like to see Jigsaw come up with that.

Cool.

Death in the Family is a good candidate for the worst comic of the decade.

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