The Darkest Batman Universe

Dude, Bermejo watched this! He posted it on his Instagram story!!!

I hope this one performs well enough to buy you a house and get some tail.

Personally I didn't like the ending to Damned, the wording of "I wish he were still alive" just feels really contrived and out of character to justify the ending, I don't care much they bait their dynamic as romantic, if the Joker died of a prostate cancer Bats would sleep easy for the first time in his life. I think he would've worked better if he said something to the effect of "I wish I didn't do it", reframing Batman's guilt as directed to breaking his code rather than the worst person since Hitler dying in his vicinity.

I loved The Joker. The whole time youre like "where tf is Batman?!" And when he finally shows up you finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Laughs in A Serious House on Serious Earth.

The batman who laughs just stole his entire look and his personality from judge death

If we were to get another installment / sequel to Damned, I hope it's Red Hood book — exploring Bruce and Jason's relationship and how the Joker destroyed it.

13:02 Edward misrepresented one of Batman's most badass scenes. Joker was accusing Batman of being vain, because he leaves his jawline exposed even though it would be more practical to cover it with bulletproof armor like the rest of his cowl. Then Batman drops down and casually reveals the real reason he exposes his mouth is to mock pathetic criminal scum like Joker, which triggers Mr.J so much he kills his own right-hand man.

I fucking love that Azzarello's "joker"

Unexpected but appreciated "ForrestFire101" reference

Oh and In the panel with joker coming out of the water aside from it being a cool killing joke homage, the lights from the city in the background spell out "HA HA" It's so dope and easy to miss

The main message of this universe seems to be "Batman wouldn't outweigh all the other awful horrors of Gotham. Leaving would be the sane option. Instead, Bruce begs people to stay in Hell, with him..."

I loved this book. Also the incision on Harley was Y cut from an autopsy. I'm thinking this is batmans purgatory

5:54 I wasn't prepared for this shot of nostalgia

I love the idea of Batman originally trying to scare the kid out of a life of crime, but then unintentionally inspiring him to presumably fight crime (not like as a vigilante but yk) I really appreciate that. 🤷‍♂️

What I really like about comic books is. You can have a favorite character and have completely different flavors of fed character that are independent in some instances and interconnected in others

There was a time people collectively losing their mind over Bat-Dong. What a time.

Im feeling the custom dialogue bubbles

Man, Azzarello had quite the interesting interpretation of the DCU Lex Luthor, Man of Steel and his run on Wonder Woman during The New 52 are easily some of the most peak of modern Cape Comics, imo. Joker and Noel were not my cup of tea, but even I can’t deny how excellent Lee Bermejo is when it comes to how well he can carry a story with his visual storytelling alone

Love how bermejos batman looks like robert pattison if he was fuming with 40 pounds of muscle, and his version of joker is perfect to me, he's supposed to be sadistic and vile its in his nature to see the funny side of existence and that to him is just nothing. Existing is the joke, and death is the punchline to him he doesn't always have to be cracking jokes and being goofy like the golden age joker.