A Batman who laughs is a Batman who always wins. The mastermind behind Dark Nights: Metal, Scott Snyder, gives you a look inside the most terrifying version of Batman ever! He and superstar artist Jock (Batman: The Black Mirror) kick off a chain of events that makes Dark Nights: Metal seem like child's play. The Batman Who Laughs not only survived his fight with The Joker at the end of Dark Nights: Metal, but is now enacting a sinister plan across the Multiverse--something both terrifying and oddly familiar. When Bruce Wayne realizes the only way to stop this madman is to kill him, he must consider violating the very rule Batman can't ever break ... the rule that created this insatiable villain--the Batman Who Laughs! As Bruce begins to deduce that his current life is somehow wrong and that all the mistakes he's made are somehow connected, the Batman Who Laughs unleashes a brand-new evil. Enter one of the most punishing Batmen of the Dark Multiverse: the Grim Knight! Collects The Batman Who Laughs #1-6.
Waited so long to read this and there were just too many plots and not enough linking it all together. There were a lot of great ideas but everything was just so scattered and wrapped up so quickly that it left you dissatisfied. I was interested to see the storyline behind the Robins but they literally popped up once with barely a mention.
The character of the Grim Knight completely outshined the Batman who Laughs from character design to origin story. The laugher’s proportions made him seem so non-threatening, which contrasts how creepy his facial features were done and don’t match the cover appearance of him sitting on the throne looking massive next to the Robins.
