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.

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

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.

Joker: Last Laugh 03 - Lunatic Fringee

Why isn't this man smiling?

So let back to the mainstream.

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.

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.

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,

Birds of Prey v1 031 - The Big Romance 01

Before beginning a new mini-series they quickly stitch up Pistolera and Vicious.

Birds of Prey v1 030 - History Lesson 03

Time and Time and Time Again!

Well it was a good quick history lesson; we have also come to the end.