Spoiler admonish forThe Joker#15

With the publication ofThe Joker’sfinal issue , longsighted - timeBatmanwriterJames Tynion IVsays his terminal adieu to mainstream Gotham . After an acclaimedDetective Comicsrun and over 30 issue on the mainBatmantitle , Tynion ’s run onThe Jokerserves as his finishing soupcon to the storey he ’s say about Gotham and its many heroes and villains . This last issue ties up some long - running plot duds , and it also include   some touching second for former Gotham police commissioner Jim Gordon that twice as Tynion ’s last words to these darling characters .

After writing the brood of Bat - characters ( and other DC books ) for eld , Tynion harbinger last yearhe would be leave the ness behind to concenter on his creator - owned study . Tynion has had a major impact across the panel at DC , but no other pipeline has felt his influence like the Gotham books . After returning some fan - favorite characters — like Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain — to the DC Universe during theNew 52era , Tynion then begin impart on to the Batman mythos . During hisBatmanrun alone , Tynion — with co - God Almighty Jorge Jiménez — debut characters that have already changed the course of the Batman enfranchisement : Ghost - Maker , Punchline , Miracle Molly , and on goes the list .

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Most latterly , Tynion has had his hands on the Joker and the Gordon family — especially ( former ) Commissioner Gordon . The Joker#15 by   James Tynion IV ,   Giuseppe Camuncoli ,   Lorenzo Ruggiero ,   Cam Smith ,   Arif Prianto , and   Tom Napolitano sees a phone number of game threads enfold up and a number of screw thread left unwound for future creators , include the time to come of Bane and his girl , Vengeance . The major focus of this issue , though , is Gordon ’s reflections on his chronicle with both Batman and the Joker as he prepare to leave his work with Batman behind and commence a private pattern with Harvey Bullock .   “ I feel so older looking back at it , " Gordon says to Batman . " All the years . All of the stories we ’ve been part of . All our rooftop conversation . ” afterward , at the end of the issue , he tell : “ But my intellect vagabond further off to other things . Which is plausibly tidy . ”

Like Jim Gordon , Batman ’s oldest friend , James Tynion IV’sinfluence in Gotham will be sorely miss , but his encroachment his still far - hand . Ghost - Maker is already re - seem with swell frequencyand acclaim , and Punchline is sire her own serial publication this fall . Gotham , Batman , and the Joker wo n’t be the same without Tynion , but his farewell inThe Joker#15   will go down in story — just like his clock time with the Bat - Family .

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The Joker#15   is available now from DC Comics !

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