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Joker ’s baffle ready for Batman and Catwoman ’s weddingthe only means he knows how : by establish a uniquely turn killing spree in Bruce Wayne ’s name . The estimation that the long - look marriage between Batman and Catwoman would send Joker off the deep end like never before came earlier this year , when writer Tom King promised big thing once the Clown Prince of Crime heard the news .
What followed wasDC Nation#0 , in which Joker chose a random house in Gotham City to look for his invitation ( along with its factual owner ) . take he had in the end received his invite to the well-chosen day - using any letter at all - Joker coif off in search of the arrant marriage ceremony talent . In our exclusive preview ofBatman#48 , Joker last gets to show off his one of a kind present . Hint : it ’s murder .
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Along with these first varlet comes a look at the variant cover from Frank Cho , but Mikel Janín ’s binding art of Joker smashing chess pieces of the intact Batman Family is what ’s really extend to vex fans . This is the Joker we ’re talking about , after all . And as DC has already started to reveal , the main appendage of the Batman Family will be confront villains in standalone comics .
Damian Wayne got the firstPrelude to the nuptials , doing fight with Ra ’s al Ghul . The issue concluded with the Demon ’s Head glimpse the havoc Joker is unleash as the nuptials twenty-four hour period approaches … and in our preview , Batman finally arrive to intercept him .
Take a look at the preview page below :
By this point , the unforgettable sight of Joker talk the theme to the 1960sBatmanTV show is what fans have come to expect from Tom King . Equal parts sinister , ego - cognisant , and above all reverence for the farseeing legacy of the Bat , it wouldalmostbe the kind of twist guaranteed to put a grin on readers ' faces . That is , if the scene itself was n’t perfectly horrifying .
The preview does n’t reveal why Joker chosethiswedding to destroy , seeming to execute all members of the hymeneals company ( or if there ’s some clue to be harvest from Mikel Janín ’s word picture of the church as New York ’s Trinity after a serious dose of Venom ) . All we roll in the hay is that the tale ’s deed , " The Best Man , " will never voice like so devoid an honorific ever again .
Check out a full synopsis for the issue below :
Batman ( 2018 ) # 48
publish : June 6 , 2018
Writer : Tom King
graphics : Mikel Janín
Cover Artist : Mikel Janín
“ THE BEST MAN ” part one ! Batman and Catwoman decide it might be respectable to elope rather than go through some braggy , stodgy wedding ceremony , but no preferably do they put their marriage on the fast track than The Joker appear ! And when The Joker nobble the Caped Crusader , will he give his old enemy a piece of his mind or sock in his brains ?
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