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Rising creative team Stephanie Phillips and Max Dunbar spin the tale of a cold case in Gotham City. The West End Wrath, a killer who was never caught who ended the lives of many affluent businessmen in the city. Bruce Wayne bids on a mysterious box that holds the answer to the century-old West End Wrath killings, but the Penguin wants that box for himself. Will Batman solve this case before the Penguin interferes!?
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The next arc of this series gets underway and we’ve got a great team on board for it. Stephanie Phillips has put together a lot of great creator-owned books the last few years that I’ve enjoyed and the foundation for this storyline is quickly setup and laid out to be engaging. Max Dunar steps up for the artwork and we get something that’s nicely stylized without being over the top or simply too much that it’s distracting to the story nor is it just the artist showing o
Infinite Frontier #0
And there was no doubt that this was the work of the Joker, poison gas bombs planted during The Joker War that went off at a pre-arranged time months later. But in
The Joker #3, we get the confrontation already…
Guillem March and Tamra Bonvillain
And the very strong feeling that The Joker is telling the truth. About this one at least. Still a mass murderer, obviously.
Guillem March and Tamra Bonvillain
But whose interest is it to pin the mass murder of Arkham Asylum on the Joker and profit from it? Maybe someone wanting to stoke fear into Gotham while simultaneously removing many threats to Gotham, put a target on the Joker s head and use the new security measures in Gotham to go after all the remaining masks?