Keep your hands to yourself, leave other people's things alone, and be kind to one another.
2 things make a comic book sell, popularity and expectations. The market model is for the comic book to be sold 3 months before it is actually released. So by the time the first issue was released, all 3 were already sold. Batman is the most popular character, and there was great anticipation, for better or for worse (Liefeld's Major X #1 sold 500k just for the anticipation of the shit he was going to do).
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I was more bothered by the idea that Barbara was portrayed as being unable to exist in a room without a shirtless member of the Bat Family without wanting to make out with them. And that person being Jason, especially the way he was portrayed in the comic, bothered me even more that Barbara would be in any way interested.
Then again the "Problematic guy is homicidal, murderous and toxic... but he looks hot without a shirt on so that makes up for it all amirite?" trope is one I've long grown tired of. It's one of the things I'm glad Pacific Rim subverted expectations on.
Last edited by Majesty; 06-02-2023 at 05:45 PM.
I suspect it has more to do with Johns not wanting anyone else to touch his toys. Three Jokers was a mammoth in sales, both single issues and the trade. DC isn’t keeping away because of sales, but because Johns had plans. He and Fabok planned to do a sequel that fell through, as Johns’ plans are wont to do.
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This story has no reason to exist (obviously, other than selling, like many bad comics that are released). While it wants to be a sequel to The Killing Joke, it contradicts The Killing Joke itself, and not for the better.
In addition, there is the fact that all the characters involved are being embarrassed there.
I don't know, sometimes it seems to me that Johns wanted to leave his mark on DC with Moore and Morrison already left, and it was soon in Moore's most important works. The Doomsday Clock itself is 80% unnecessary, but Johns wanted 12 issues, because Watchmen had 12 issues. And Johns trying to emulate Moore's writing is embarrassing, the best, I would say the only one I liked, issue of Doomsday Clock is precisely the one that Johns is Johns, the confrontation.