It amazes me sometimes, 242 episodes into this whole thing, how many stories we still haven’t read. When Jason Todd tier backer Kyle Still came to me with his options for this week’s episode, and one of them included the Batman and Robin tie-in to the Joker-centric event “Death of the Family,” I realized we had never actually done the main arc from Scott Snyder’s run on Batman. So, well, that sort of settled things. This week we read a story that features, as Will calls him, “the gayest Joker ever,” as Joker, who at this point has no face, does everything he can to show how much he loves Batman in stories from the New 52 volumes of Batman, Batman and Robin and (sort of anyway) Detective Comics.
- Death of the Family (Batman V.2 #13-17)
- Little Big Man (Batman and Robin V.2 #15-16)
- Nothin’ But Smiles (Detective Comics V.2 #16-17)
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Matt Lazorwitz read his first comic at the age of 5. It was Who's Who in the DC Universe #2, featuring characters whose names begin with B, which explains so much about his Batman obsession. He writes about comics he loves, and co-hosts the podcasts BatChat with Matt & Will and The ComicsXF Interview Podcast.
Will Nevin loves bourbon and AP style and gets paid to teach one of those things. He is on Twitter far too often.
