The secret of Endgame is finally out!
And it’s a shocker.
Batman #35 arrived this week with a final page that sent chills in the heart of Bat-fans as a classic enemy arrived for the Dark Knight 75th Anniversary.
Before we continue with the surprise shot and more from writer Scott Snyder here’s a…
SPOILER ALERT!
If you have not read Batman #35 stop reading now
OK
Here it comes.
Batman #35 featured a brutal battle between Bruce and his friends in the Justice League. Why were DC’s biggest heroes out to kill Batman?
In the final page we saw Superman with a grin only a Joker could love!
Yes, the Joker is back or is he?
In the final page we learned the Justice League was possessed or under the control of the Joker!
It sure looks like the heroes are under the influence of the Joker’s classic venom!
Writer Scott Snyder explains how the big reveal relates to the new arc’s title:
“Joker’s saying, “This is the end of us. This is it. This is the last Joker story of ‘Batman and Joker.'” Joker is moving on, is what Joker would say. So it’s really the end of the game played between the two of them.
For him, he’s funeral. He’s ready to end everything with Batman. For us, it’s incredibly fun to write him in this psychological state, because it’s no-holds barred. It’s the kind of thing where nobody is precious, no one matters, he’s out to prove a point and to make Batman feel like his life is meaningless. In that way, he’s incredibly vicious and incredibly fun.” Snyder told Comic Book Resources.
“His plan is huge — you can imagine, if we open with the Justice League Joker-ized, we’re not going to go smaller from there. [Laughs] It’s very, very big, and very out of control, and a lot of fun to write. I don’t want to say I’ll never write the Joker again, because I always feel like you do that, and then 10 years down the line you get some opportunity and you become a hypocrite about it. But I would say this is really the concluding chapter for us for the Joker, given the relationship we’ve created between him and our version of Bruce Wayne, for this run of “Batman.””
More surprises in this issue:
Thanks to the toxin – Bruce had a vision of how he would die.
The other surprise? This issue is set after the events of Batman Eternal which isn’t scheduled to wrap up until March 2015.
How will it all tie-in? Stay tuned.
By Editor