So I knew back then that I wanted to do a miniseries. It was just the nature of that story there wasn’t the kind of room for intimacy I wanted with this character. It really was the lack of room in Metal to explore the character. With The Batman Who Laughs, it wasn’t the popularity that made me want to do the series. It’s a huge thrill and honor, and it’s very humbling to see those things stick around for awhile. You never think about those things taking a life of their own. With the Court of the Owls, same thing, with Joker with his face cut off. Scott Snyder: I never assume that stuff at all. Did you expect him to be such a hit with fans? Polygon: Scott, you set the Batman Who Laughs up as the most visible big bad of Dark Nights Metal. 12, Polygon sat down with Snyder and Jock to talk about bringing a dark night’s dream to the page.Įditor’s Note: This interview has been edited for clarity. With The Batman Who Laughs #1 hitting shelves on Dec. The Grim Knight, a new Nightmare Batman who was not featured in Dark Nights Metal for fear he would outclass the other seven Nightmare Batmen, is sort of a Batman/Punisher hybrid. Snyder reunites with the artist known as Jock for a six-issue miniseries - called The Batman Who Laughs, of course - about the Batman Who Laughs declaring war on Batman, and he’s bringing some extra help to do it. He burned his world down from the inside and then escaped its destruction to wreak havoc across the multiverse. The Batman Who Laughs has all of Batman’s determination and will, and none of his restraint. The Caped Crusader was infected by a neurotoxin designed to remove the moral limits of anyone present at the moment of the Joker’s death. The Batman Who Laughs hails from a broken splinter of the DC Comics cosmos, a world in which Batman broke down and killed the Joker - only for the supervillain’s final trap to spring shut. Series architect Scott Snyder is bringing the Batman Who Laughs to the main DC Universe, a place where he definitely does not belong.
DC Comics’ 2017 crossover event, Dark Nights Metal, was the comic book craze of the summer, and this week, its break-out character makes a horrifying return.