Birds of Prey 038 - The Next Little Thing

Black Canary penetrates into the centre of General Robotics

Birds of Prey 037 - Red, Black and Blue

United against the deadliest of foes!

Black Canary, Robin and Blue Beetle take care of the remaining jokerized criminals.

Joker: Last Laugh - Rating

The story was portrayed in five (plus one) one-half length issues, and though it was not in the story so much, Chuck Dixon relatively successful compensates that the plot has turned into uninteresting by lot of threads and jokes. The real curse of such stories is that after the ambitious beginning, it turns into total mediocrity at the end. But fortunately this did not happen.

Although the global events eventually shrank to Gotham and were reduced a Batman (and others) vs. Joker clashes, they still managed to find a good completion. And if that would have allowed Chuck Dixon to successfully achieve Joker's plan, it could be a real milestone in the life of Batman Family. Scott Beatty's main thread: Shilo and Dina with the slab stuck (literally) in the middle of the nothing was also pretty enjoyable, the only problem that it was completely unnecessary.

The level of lot of Tie in was quite variable, but the vast majority was alibi issue. There were some unacceptable crap and roughly the same amount of good as well. The general problem was that their authors were not really informed about the progress of the main story, so it real contradictions occurred. Just Chuck Dixon's issues were fit well in the mainstream. Moreover, these issues expanded a by thread, in principle. But Chuck Dixon had not enough energy for this, so this were meaningless crap with deteriorating standards.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.

Joker: Last Laugh 06 - You Only Laughs Twice!

I Win!

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

The Titans 034 - A Child's Laughter

Mommy Dearest!

A cardinal member of the Titans, Arsenal is concerned that his child's mother (our old friend), Cheshire who was imprisoned in the Slab, will visits his young daughter, Lian.

Action Comics 784 - Whose mind is it anyway?

In funniest day, in craziest night!

Clark Kent and Lois Lane have just decided to never come out of their rooms but rather occupy themselves with each other.

Batman 596 - City on Fire

Joker has unleashed the jokerized mentals of Arkham Asylum to Gotham.

Justice League of America 059 - Bipolar Disorder

The Chilling Joke.

The jokerized Dr Polaris moves the magnetic axis of the earth to cause amazing weather anomalies

Robin 095 - Book of Dead

Croc Attack!

Joker and Rancor are waiting to Batman in Gotham Cathedral, while they are dreaming how they will kill the whole bat team.

Batman and Spoiler join to Huntress in the basement/dungeon of Arkham Asylum. They examine Robin's ripped clothes with which is associated a skull too soon. It's time for a little schmooze, when they are attacked by Mr. Zsasz who is beaten by them jointly and it immediately alleviates their grief.

In the Cathedral, Joker presents his battle plan to the rest of Super Evil (Cheerleader: Rancor) but it is only joking. During the dog walking, Alfred is talking th the pastor about that he didn't see Timothy Drake (Robin in civil) for days. Oracle and Blue Beetle are mourning of Robin in the Gotham Clock Tower, when the aforementioned arrives and tells the story of what happened. Well, it was nothing special, just he escaped from Killer Croc who could just rip off his shirt, and the skull was someone else's skull. Meanwhile the police invade the basement/dungeon of Arkham Asylum arrest Killer Croc and Mr. Zsasz and are joking about the skeletons found there. (Republican or Democrat?) Blue Beetle takes Robin to the cathedral to appease the anxious Batman because Joker somehow blocks the radio signal. Meanwhile, Nightwing throws himself into action.

Chuck Dixon's story is flat, uninteresting and boring. In addition, it is falling apart to few paged episodes which relate to each other just in principle. A few alibi action can't help it. Jeff Parker's simple, few lined draws evoke the silver age.

The facial expressions sometimes are better

sometimes are terribly lame.

My favorite is Joker's grotesque face.

Service Message: Mammoth, Warp, Copperhead, and Hellgrammite also attend on the military council.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.

Joker: Last Laugh 05 - Mad, Mad World

Acid Reign!

After Harley Quinn has produced the antiserum, she takes hostage Man-Bat and demands to bring her to Joker

Wonder Woman 175 - The Witch & the Warrior 02

The Witch is Back.

So it begins the huge battle between the super-heroines and the female super-evils

Wonder Woman 174 - The Witch & the Warrior 01

Wonder Women.

New York is trying to recover from the post-war devastation (and it is still the Our worlds at war storyline), but it is difficult to curb clashes between humans and aliens.

Green Lantern 143 - Grayven's Last Laugh

I'm here all week, make sure to take care of your waitresses.

Right now Kyle Rayner is the (terrestrial, masculine) Green Lantern.

Supergirl 063 - The Best Medicine

Two Face to Face.

We are opening with an action: In a book depot, Supergirl is fighting with her (jokerized?) evil clone, Bizarro Supergirl

Superman: The Man of Steel 119- Snowballs Chance

This one'll kill ya! And Krypto Too!

Some jokerized super evils, including Icicle and Killer Frost unlock Eradicator who has been frozen in the absolute zero chamber, and who takes care them in gratitude (well, not very).

Flash v2 179 - Smile for the Camera!

Send in the Clowns!

Flash is the fastest man alive. The supporting character is Pied Piper who had been Flash's regular antagonist but improved, however now, he is suspected of murdering his parents and he does not deny the charge.

Joker: Last Laugh 04 - Everyone knows this is nowhere

Because the story began to flatten out in the previous issue, so Chuck Dixon suddenly divids the plot into five threads.

Adventures of Superman 597 - Rubber Crutch

Why is this man smiling?

Joker sends his two hostesses to President Lex Luthor and they Jokerize him. As a result, the President begins a country-wide campaign amok.

The Spectre 010 - Laughing at Myself

The Return of Parallax!

Spectre is none other than Hal Jordan, the second Green Lantern (The Green Lantern), who became the super evil Parallax or at least his hosts or something like that. He currently is dead, but the spirit of vengeance, Spectre has chosen his soul (not his body) for his hosts, and he has decided to use the power of Spectre for not revenge, but redemption. Well it is pretty complicated.

Harley Quinn 013- Night and Day

Harley Quinn has appeared a few times on my blog, but so far I has not much said about her background. Her character was invented for the 1992 Batman cartoons, and she became so popular that she has been transferred to the comics.

JSA 029 - Kids

JSA (Justice Society of America) is the alternative JLA (Justice League of America) with superhero members from the Golden Age (i.e. Flash with potty on his head and others).

Detective Comics 763 - La Cucilla

This story is an adventure of Sasha Bordeaux, Bruce Wayne's bodyguard who operates as a super heroine at Batman's side.

Superboy 093 - Die Hard Laughing

The Grim Creeper.

In this rather confusing story, Superboy has to fight the Jokerized Creeper who wants to blow up the editorial office of the Daily Planet.

Batgirl v1 021

Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) consistently smashes stone? clay? puppets in her gym, when Spoiler arrives to bring the message of Oracle who has been unable to contact her 10 hours.

Joker: Last Laugh 03 - Lunatic Fringee

Why isn't this man smiling?

So let back to the mainstream.

Impulse 079 - No Laughing Matters

Running of Fumes!

The title character, Impulse is a sort of Kid Flash (i.e. zippy), he is the member of the Junior League, the Young Justice (that's instead of / in addition to the Teen Titans). However, he is not the main character,

Nightwing 062 - Midnight Madness

The Slab under Siege!

Now you can find out what happened after that Nightwing had penetrated into the slab

Birds of Prey v1 036 - Canary Caged

The Early Worm Gets the Bird!

At last, you can know what's happened to Black Canary, after she penetrated into the Slab.

Gotham Knights 022 - Bugged Out

For introduction, it's a few word about one of the main characters in the story: Stephanie Brown is a teenage girl and an amateur superhero under the name of Spoiler. She hangs on together mostly with Robin (Tim Drake). She will be Robin and Batgirl too. If my blog will go long time, we will meet her good many times.

Superman 175 - Doomsday Rex

It is a tie in again, this time with Superman.

Joker: Last Laugh 02 - Siege Mentality

Return to the main story. We left it that the prison rebellion was successful, but they have not been able to break out of the Slab, but the all super evil is Jokerized. Black Canary has penetrated into the Slab, Blue Beetle covers her from the outside and Batman has appeared at the scene. Oracle and Nightwing have only recently learned of the developments. Shilo and Dina are trying to get out of the Slab.

Azrael 083 - The Evil Men Do...

Twisted Sister.

Azrael is one of the Batman related superheroes; he is a former assassin of the Order of St. Dumas and takes his name from the angel of death.

Orion 019

Laugh, and the world laughs with you.

For introduction, Orion is one of the New Gods (by Jack Kirby), he is son of Darkseid, evil lord of Apokolips, and he is a good guy anyway.

Young Justice 038 - Stuff Happens

Last Barf!

Of course, the crossover does not only contain its 6+1 parts, but twentysome tie in connect with it. The all is based on the same: the released and Jokerised super villains fill the different comic booklets.

We start at the Young Justice.

Joker: Last Laugh 01 - Stir Crazy

Nightwing and Oracle are still dating so they know nothing about the broken out rebellion.

Joker: Last Laugh 00 - Secret Files and Origins

This again is not a Birds of Prey booklet, which means that the girls' adventures link into a large crossover, the Joker: Last Laugh (as I already aimed at last time).

Birds of Prey v1 035 - Rebirth!

So after the dead Dinah was tossed into Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus pit,

Birds of Prey v1 034 - The Big Romance 04

Heart Breaker!

The romance is over, the story is not yet.

Birds of Prey v1 033 - The Big Romance 03

The Courtship.

Ra's Al Ghul's ship already sails in the Caribbean.

Birds of Prey v1 032 - The Big Romance 02

The Stray.

So Jason Bard has been captured by Ra's al Ghul,