Gleason is such a huge factor in establishing the characterization of Damian. He really helped change Damian from the homicidal twerp he could often be post-Morrison into a wounded, angry, ego-driven boy who is fascinating to watch and relentlessly, painfully human. I love Robin: Son of Batman.

I think the exact quote is "I voided my bowels" which sounds pretty awful to me.

I'll see you and raise you Batman crapping his pants while giving the "Gentleman, you've eaten well" speech from Widening Gyre.

I…didn't like that.

Johns' whole JL takes place in a very nebulous time frame so it's hard to critique. Hal is back with the ring and as a member of the Corps as well, so it would have to take place like a year ago if you really want to get technical. Trying to wrap your head around all of this is pretty difficult.

I'm still trying to come to terms with that one.

Yeah that feels about right. I'll say this for Millar; I think he would have been able to mine some humor from Low which might have made that bitter pill easier to swallow.

He just started writing Hal again so he hasn't gotten to do much there. His Batman generally gets written as the genius of the group but he's also constantly doing bafflingly stupid things or missing the world's easiest clues. I tend to think Johns writes most characters as a little more Silver Age-y than the book…

I felt a little let down by it too. I think some of that is due to hte long waits between issues and this one definitely felt like it was originally meant to be two separate issues. I liked it but I left feeling a tad disappointed.

I'm still mad about the end of this week's JL.

Low is really the first Remender series I didn't click with at all. I read the first three issues and just could not connect to its weird mix of personal optimism and crushing wretchedness.

"I wasn't coddled enough by this story!"

No, you're all set with the Comixology one. I've used it both on my phone and laptop and had pretty great results. I used the DC official one for years before the Comixology one launched and it's just as good albeit more specialized to just the company's stuff. If you're going to read other stuff as well as Batman,…

DC has a pretty good one. Dark Horse sort of has one on their site but is a real chore to use. I'd recommend Comixology's app if you're going to be reading mostly on a tablet. It's fairly intuitive and lets you customize to your screen, do guided reading if that's your thing, or zoom in on panels in pretty high…

It's really hard for me to vote against Batman RIP. I might give Multiversity the nod though.

I prefer Batman and Robin over Harley but both are big cartoony fun.

The Killing Joke's status as canon was definitely up in the air until basically every one started to acknowledge because it had such a dramatic impact on Barbara.

Pure nightmare fuel.

That's the most common impression of the Joker's deal, that he's an inexplicably violent, psychotic person whose only goal is spreading chaos and fear. The Killing Joke attempts to ground him in humanity. It cries "he's not a monster, he was doing everything because he was desperate and loves his family." That…

You're overlooking the fact that the book explicitly is using that origin story, true or not, to connect Batman and the Joker. You can't really have it both ways. It demands that you acknowledge that one bad day impacted both of them and you're required to acknowledge that fact if Moore's story is meant to land. As…