And while he wreaks havoc, Frost narrates and Two-Face trembles, the nagging absence of Batman himself hangs over us, for this is the Joker’s journey, and Bruce Wayne has apparently taken a holiday.Īzzarello, however, makes fine use of other assorted misfits. Much of the narration, like the action itself, is far from clear-cut and open to interpretation.Įnacting revenge on those who have wronged him during his incarceration and catching up on the evisceration he has been craving while behind bars, though he claims he is a changed man, Joker shows little sign of remorse. He acts as the reader’s eyes and ears, asking questions while we contemplate the answers. Hoping initially for a role as one of the Joker’s henchmen, he winds up, predictably, in way over his head and looking for a way out. Frost tells his tale with a sense of growing fear and irony. Tasked with collecting the Joker upon release, he is quickly invited to the villain’s after-party, and it is through his naive eyes that we observe Joker’s subsequent rampage through Gotham. Frost is a typical Gotham scumbag, a thug fighting his wife over divorce papers, trying to make ends meet. Ingeniously narrated by muscle for hire Johnny Frost, Joker begins with the clown prince of crime’s unexplained release from Arkham Asylum.
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