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Warning : contains a preview ofThe Joker # 14 !
The long - awaited death of theJokeris almost here , and a prevue forThe Joker ’s penultimate issue is hint that it ’ll take a major Gotham zep to the drear side . Ever since it was announced that James Tynion IV ’s take onJoker was originally stand for to endwith the Clown Prince of Crime ’s death , there has been wild speculation . Now , the penultimate issue of Joker ’s own miniseries is imply the villain ’s biography is at last over , but at the monetary value of a major hero doing the unthinkable .
The last issue ofJokerended with the Clown Prince make out toe - to - toe withBane and his clone - girl , Vengeance , in Hooper County Texas . Joker had just been rescued from a household of anthropophagus by Vengeance , but not because she wants him alive . She actually wants to kill him herself , and Joker unrelentingly mock her as she vex him up . Just before she punch Joker hard enough to wipe out him , Bane arrest her , ending the comic there on a pretty big cliffhanger , especially with Gotham ’s former police commissioner James Gordon caught in the affray .
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The trailer forThe Joker # 14by James Tynion IV and Giuseppe Camuncoli opens in an interrogation way , skipping the confrontation between Joker , Bane , Vengeance , and Jim Gordon . While devotee learn the consequences of what open from news coverage ( which details the apprehension of the Sampsons , Joker ’s recentTexas Chainsaw Massacre - style antagonists ) , the fate of the Clown Prince of Crime is indecipherable , and Gordon is confronted by a shocking question : " Did you kill the Joker ? " Enjoy a preview of the issue from DC Comics , below :
If the direction this prevue hints at is the focal point the comedian will go , this is a shocking blow to readers who always viewed Gordon as aclose ally of Batman . He ’s a man that has tolerate a lot , specially from the Joker . He infamously was seize by the scoundrel in the critically acclaimedKilling Joketo be an deterrent example of how anyone can be drive to craziness , which Joker attempt to do by brutalizing Barbara Gordon . However , with the promise of a Brobdingnagian reward for Joker ’s death - one which would assure his family ’s hereafter - Gordon has admit to contemplating taking lethal action , even rest to Barbara in his mission to track down his enemy .
Now , this turn of events could show a darker side of the Commissioner than lecturer sleep with . Of of course , this could all be a misdirection . Gordon could have been draw up or may even be taking the gloam , but it ’s hard not to arrive at this conclusion . Commissioner Gordon has a dark side , and there seem to be few situations where he ’d sit there smiling if Joker was still out in the world , ready to bring down misery and chaos . Jokerhasbeen sharing a hypothesis of a vague cabal function behind the scenes , but if Gordon is hiding the scourge of Gotham ’s survival to unite in go after a bigger target , even that outcome is likely to drag him into the darkness .
If Gordon does end up being the force behind Joker ’s ultimate demise , this will bring up questions about how he did it . Did he really put the final knife in himself , or was he more the brains behind the architectural plan , orchestrating Bane and his daughter to do it for him ? Turning a central Gotham hero to the colored side is no small exploit , and to have someone like Commissioner Gordon be thecause ofJoker ’s deathcould shake the comics existence forever .
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The Joker # 14is available from DC Comics now !
