Joker: Last Laugh 06 - You Only Laughs Twice!

I Win!

And so, we arrive to the end of our endless crossover.

Well, who has not read the Robin, he can concern a little bit about the title character. Joker is rage because of Robin's alleged death, since Joker has plans with Robin, but he becomes happy when he learns Rancor that Killer Croc probably ate him. Nightwing evokes the previous Robin's death and would schmooze a little bit. For continuing of the tension, we switch to Shilo, Dina and the Slab trapped in the centre of nothing. Well, it turns out that Multiman does not really like to kill him again repeatedly, so it is formed a little chase. Taking advantage of the excitement of the chase, Mr. Mind tries to penetrate into brain of Shilo who fortunately notices and prevents it in time. Until we was in the Slab Nightwing knocked out Black Canary and took her motorcycle. He went to the Gotham cathedral, to where Joker's message had called Batman, who is just being informed by Oracle about the whole thing because he was in Arkham Asylum with Spoiler and Huntress. Nightwing arrives to the church which is protected by Warp's invisible force field (of course he is admitted only the police is not), and it begins the fight which we have already seen at the end of the Robin booklet.

Of course, we must take a detour to uninteresting Shilo and Dina again to wait that we finally find out Joker's diabolical plan: he wants to kill himself by Batman (just like Kevin Spacey in the Se7en) that he ruins Batman by this. The bat team is arriving so we can go back to the Slab. Finally, it is progress here. Multiman has had a super ability by which he is able to revive Black Mass who is brain dead, but never mind, because they place Mr. Mind into his head.

Robin runs into the cathedral (Warp and Rancor quickly exit through a dimension gate) and stops Nightwing,

but it looks like that it's too late, Joker is dead.

But fortunately, Batman and the others arrive and revive Joker by mouth-to-mouth ventilation (perhaps Huntress). All is happy (mostly Spoiler for Robin), but Nightwing completely falls down because Joker has managed to provoke the killing himself.

Meanwhile, Shilo and Dina's action is fully succeeded but they have managed to return the Slab on Antarctica which is also good point because Dr. Polaris has absorbed such much magnetism that he has become the new magnetic south pole of the Earth so they have to keep him on Antarctica.

Telling the truth, I feared that the end of the story is totally out of breath, but fortunately it did not happen. Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty woven enjoyably the two remaining thread. The Joker provokes killing himself thing is a good idea, but after the Se7en is not so striking. Unfortunately this got lost a little, and it spoiled a lot of the drama that Joker was eventually revived amid great joking. I suspect that Chuck Dixon finally wanted to kill him (Joker), but that's all let him (Dixon). Completion of Shilo-Dina is also imaginative. Rick Burchett's draws, however, are simply awful, flamboyantly, simple stupid, very irritating. It spoils the better panel editing, and the dramatic moments in the story. Only in the last page has been fine when Oracle decides to abandon Joker continuous monitoring.

Rating of the whole crossover will be in a separate post.

Public Service Announcements: President Lex Luthor, Martian Manhunter, Hellgrammite, and Mammoth appear also.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.