Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4

This series is heating up as both questions and answers arise in Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4. I couldn't have asked for a better start to the year and look forward to what awaits us all next issue! Read Full Review

From when this series was first introduced in the precursor to The Man Who Stopped Laughing it was hard to think of how a Joker series might work but this latest issue shows how the Harlequin of Hate can hold his own with a solo title. Read Full Review

Di Giandomenico has a fantastic visual eye and the style of the art is brilliantly detailed and filled with great character moments and action. Read Full Review

Moreover, for a writer to channel the inner psyche of the Joker in order to come up with some of this demented stuff has always made me wonder what mindset youd have to be in in order to write this. Why? Well, some of these jokes were pretty dark and powerful. If thats your thing, youll love the heck out of this issue that truly pushes the envelope with some of its satire. Let me know what you think, have a great week, and God Bless! Read Full Review

This is an odd series that doesn't really seem to fit anywhere else in the DCU at the moment. Read Full Review

I did appreciate that Red Hood risked his life and chose to save the life of the police officer, despite the threat it posed to his own life. Although this issue didn't really do it for me, I'm really hoping the next installment in this series might provide some more relevant plot developments to really get the series rolling and serve to be a bit more entertaining. Read Full Review

Comics are over-priced. Their contents are of either sub-mediocre work or feature the writers exposing their fetishes. Recently, Batman News lost writer Nicholas Finch to other pursuits. He claimed that he'd fallen out of love with DC Comics. I'm really feeling that. DC comic books seem like they are written for no one, and no one is really discussing them. Yet even as more and more people become disillusioned with DC, the company behind the scenes doesn't seem to care.Score: 2/10 Read Full Review

Batmanaholic

Jan 05, 2023

The main story was the best of the series. The jones where aweful and in poor taste and has me laughing. There humour was twisted and there was some great banter between red hood and the joker. Also spoiler When joker is hiding in the hospital from the swat team, and ends up in the childrens termanilly I'll suck wing. He made them laugh enough to cover for him with the cops. What more do you want from a joker comic. The backup is goofy but harmless old style comic fun but with dark goofy plots. And no logic at all. Anyone trying to say this is woke, because the joker was hexed and then threw up a mud monster that ended up forming into a mini joker. Is an idiot, who isn't worth listening too. I don't like " woke stuff" that wasn't " woke " you morons giving this 1.0 over it. more

Psycamorean

Mar 03, 2023

The people mad about this issue don't even know what they're fucking mad at. You're all absurd clowns the world would do better without. Uhh, like, Joker, actually. See, this is about comics.

Screaming Enigma

Oct 11, 2023

Going into this issue, I was sure the outrage over the backup story was going to be dumb, but I can't believe people are that upset about this. I feel as though some people who are whining about it didn't even read the story and haven't even read the three previous issues of this series. It's been well-established since the first issue that the backup stories in this series are nonsensical and dumb with a old-time tone to them. Here, Joker is pregnant because Zatanna uses her magic to make him that way and then he ends up throwing up the offspring because, since he doesn't have female reproductive parts, he can't really give normally give birth to it. Is it stupid? Yes, it's really stupid. Is it a bad story? That's subjective, I suppose, bu t I found this funny. Is it something to get into a fit about? Absolutely not. The same people using stuff like this to complain about "the left" are the same people who say "the left" gets bent out of shape about every little thing. Give me a break. As for the main story, it wasn't as strong as the first three issues, but I'm still interested by it. The highlight of it all was Joker's interactions with the sick kids in the hospital, as I thought it was pretty funny and a great representation of The Joker. more

wakizashireviews

Jan 05, 2023

The 8-page back-up story has gone viral on social media. I had to check it out for myself and see if it was much ado about nothing or another nail in the coffin of DC Comics. Is writer Matthew Rosenberg secretly trolling the fans or is it all just a harmless joke? I think it’s a truly strange and unpleasant story which wastes the talent of artist Franco Francavilla. It’s also a waste of the character Zatanna who deserves better than being dropped into this surreal story. How does this get by the DC Comics Editors? Is there anybody even checking these stories anymore? What do you think?

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Psycamorean - Jan 6, 2023

If you actually read the series, you'd know that the backups are written in a very silly, surreal style, meant to invoke silly times in comics like during the Silver Age. It's not meant to be taken seriously, and it's not canon. Everyone complaining about this is either too stupid to understand the very basic concept or too unwilling to give up a chance to whine.

Bats44121 - Jan 6, 2023

They got you to waste your money on a terrible issue. I honestly don't know when Matt Rosenberg was not trolling DC heroes/heroines fans. And Franco gets a paid issue. They get talked about on social media. That's all they want. Don't care about comics readers anymore. Haven't for a long, long time.

Tempra16v2.0Turbo

Jan 06, 2023

No Rosenberg, you're failing to do what you think you're doing.

humgruffin

Jan 04, 2023

It’s just like the looney left have always said, men CAN give birth! Fuuuuuuuu…

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Batmanaholic - Jan 5, 2023

You didn't read the story did you? You are a moron bud. There is nothing woke at all about Zantana cursing him, and him throwing up a mud monster in the morning who magically forms into a mini joker. It was a dumb back up issue. Nothing to be mad over.

humgruffin - Jan 7, 2023 (edited)

Rosenberg is that you?! Sounds like you have your fake time of the month dude. I hope you have some of that frozen tomato ketchup ready.

Batmanaholic - Jan 7, 2023

Buddy you didn't even read the story. Just shut the fuck up. I hate woke shit. This isn't woke. This is a writer trying to do some weird golden/silver age goofy story. Learn some comic history, and stop being a pathetic dipshit.

humgruffin - Jan 8, 2023

Whatever man, I’ve been reading comics for over 40 years. I know golden and silver age plenty. This isn’t it. This is a waste of pages that doesn’t belong in a Joker book. Next time look in a mirror when you want to label a pathetic dipshit.

Batmanaholic - Jan 8, 2023

Buddy if you think this comic was woke. You are a pathetic old man. 40 years later and your still being a big bitch then I see.

humgruffin - Jan 8, 2023

Stop fantasising about having a sodomy baby, wanksock.

Ebonyc

Jan 04, 2023

Just look at "darknightnews": 10 out of 10, perfect comic book! Phuking brainwashed woke sheep. You're disgusting darknightnews.

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Bats44121 - Jan 6, 2023

Well, it is DKN's Kendra Hale's viewpoint. There are a lot of comics I would never consider reading for free. This is one of those many.

Toonstrack - Jan 7, 2023

You didn't even read the book, who sent you? With your fake outrage lol. Stop crying and be a man.

Ebonyc - Jan 10, 2023

Skynet sent me; you should run.

Toonstrack - Jan 10, 2023

Im not afraid of skynet.

Khamul

Jan 05, 2023

Muddled and scattershot. Nothing here seems above a highschool level effort. This issues only use is to show as evidence why American comics are dying if not dead. Where’s a new Denny O’Neil to save us.

Howard

Jan 06, 2023

NOPE!

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Howard - Jan 6, 2023

1.0 Woke BS