The Joker #4

The Joker #4 is easily the best in the series so far. I have few complaints as Tynion seems to have found a perfect balance of noir and action. March absolutely crushed this issue and the creative team for Punchline is moving in a positive direction. Read Full Review

The Joker has been a killer read so far and itll be interesting to see how far the chase takes Gordon before he fully spirals out. Read Full Review

The tone of each story is perfectly matched by their corresponding illustrations. In the Joker, the drawings are extremely detailed with a color palate that presents as eerie even with the groupings change from pastels to darker colors. Meanwhile, the bold colors and tightly drawn images in Punchline capture high octane action. Read Full Review

One day, the Joker and Punchline will meet again and then Gotham will really bleed. But for the moment Ill just be here with my popcorn, watching the show. Read Full Review

For those lucky enough to get on the ground floor of anything that James Tynion IV does, he's one of the hottest authors the past few years. I am not sure how his imaginative faucet gets turned on, or where he is creating Joker stories. But I am drinking from his fire hydrant! This should be on your shelf! Read Full Review

Tynion continues to hit the main story out of the park. Read Full Review

When all is said and done, The Joker #4 continues to maintain the high bar of quality it has established in its preceding issues. Read Full Review

The Joker continues to build upon itself and take readers on a globe-spanning journey that promises to show readers exotic locations, as well as dive even deeper and deeper into the psyche of Jim Gordon. While it's fun to chase the Joker, Gordon is truly the star in this series. Read Full Review

The Joker hunt continues to be interesting in new and unexpected ways with each issue and this one is no different. We've got intriguing characters, deep mysteries, and the psychology of our favorite former Commissioner driving this story forward in excellent ways and I only hope that the Punchline backup starts matching the pace of the main story because sadly, that backup is already losing steam with me and making less interested in a new character that I was really digging initially. Read Full Review

Strong art and a consistently compelling narrative keep 'The Joker' humming, but this issue hits a bit of a rut when the Clown Prince of Crime takes on a more central role. Read Full Review

There is a back up story focusing on the new character Punchline. I did not read the back up as to be honest Punchline holds no interest to me. Read Full Review

A bit of fun action, some trippy colorful art, and a few twists and turns make this by far the best issue of The Joker yet. It's absolutely the first issue to make me truly hopeful that this story might turn out to be pretty good. That said, The Joker #4's stubborn insistence on continuing to plaster boilerplate monologue over nearly every panel of its first half still kept the issue from being more than above average. Read Full Review

While it's still a solid issue, it feels like the weakest of the series to date which started off like a rocket. Read Full Review

UxasIs

Jun 18, 2021

Absolutely phenomenal!

cincyfan

Jun 22, 2021

I loved both stories they were fantastic. If we had one complaint It'd be I wish the punchline story was longer

BitchWitcher

Jun 08, 2021

This rating is just for the main Joker story. The Punchline one is frankly just mediocre, but I haven't written it off completely yet.

daspidaboy

Jun 08, 2021

James Tynion IV's best work in DC Comics so far (except fo detective comics). Just dont know why Comissioner Gordon couldnt do what he was told to do for some reason.

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SenpaifenixJäger - Jun 8, 2021

I can say that I don't recognize Tyrion in this series, he's brilliant. Why can't he do something like that with his other series? Even the way he portrayed the Joker was good.

REYNARD

Jun 15, 2021

10x better than whatever the hell is happening in the main titles. Guillem March's art is a feat to behold.

Afre

Jun 08, 2021

I gotta admit, I am starting to be really invested in this comic. Tynion writes Joker surprisingly well, at least better than in Joker War. I really don't have problems with the main story. As for the Punchline comic, I just skip it. I don't care nor do I have any interest to wasting time reading something I know I will dislike.

Fracadactyl

Jun 08, 2021

There's a real sense of madness throughout Tynion's Joker and how it affects Gordon, I mean he's showing way more invested creativity here than in the Batman title. Curse you publisher mandate! Not to mention the inclusion of influence from Snyder is getting plain as day; not just the court of the owls but with the tension building up.

EDiakota

Jun 13, 2021

Go home, MR.Gordon. You're already drowning in the darkness. Head back to the light while you still can. " - SHE BANE

TSMack

Jun 14, 2021

Tynion's take on the Joker is spot on with his dialogue & brutality. March's artwork is great as usual. Punchline story... meh, don't care. DC needs to drop it & give us a break on the price. $6 for a comic is too much. I wouldn't buy this series ordinarily but I know the quality will be good.

Psycamorean

Jun 22, 2021

The main story continues to be one of my favorites. I just think it's very well written. I feel like I'm just waiting for Tynion to put this sort of effort and energy into the Batman book, which reads like a mess. The backup story continues to suck. This time it was super quick and barely anything that's not boring happened, so I'll fill up the rest of my review with a text rant about Punchline I sent a friend early one morning instead of sleeping: "... because it's basically like, Punchline was turned into a Joker sycophant because he's just so fucking cool. And isn't society baaaad. But her character is basically just some lowbrow super immature critique of society. She's literally just Jared Leto's Joker saying we live in a society ov er and over again. As one of those weirdos who's apparently just on the edge of murdering someone myself, like the comic continues to imply, since I read and learn about serial killers, I know how serial killers get their fangirls. I just think it could be done so much better. There's a reason typically women fall into these sort of groupie scenarios with killers. It depends on the dynamic of the woman and the killer. Like, if the killer is loose, and he's forming groupies while being active, the women around him are going to be poorly educated and poor, or even homeless. Look at the beatniks that formed the Manson Family, for instance. Then there's the much more common variety that springs up after a killer is caught and in jail. In that scenario, women have the power. The killer is in jail. He can't cheat on them or do much of anything without them. They can give him stuff to make his prison stay better. They can change him. They can make him good again. And maybe, he didn't actually do anything wrong and he's been framed?? There's a phenomenon of "pet" serial killers. Middle class women who become groupies of serial killers and treat them like a pet that they nurture and take care of. And a lot of why women are attracted to these people is because of our media. Think of how often in movies, the woman falls in love with the bad boy who is actually so nice and sweet if you get to know him. You could dissect all of this and really deconstruct this phenomenon. What do we get instead though? A bad plot about indoctrination that Tynion himself has done better elsewhere. They tried to take the killer groupie thing and turn it into a political indoctrination story. At least, in that one-shot. They kind of forget that's where it started in the backups. But that doesn't work with the Joker. It ignores a fundamental part of indoctrination, which is the normalization of the abnormal. Something that has to slowly take place. You don't just decide to fall in with something like the Joker." more

pizzamain

Jan 01, 2022

one of the joker's superpowers is knowing if someone when someone is sleeping, apparently monologuing joker is tough to do and i don't think they really get it right here but at least we're moving forward