this is one of them most infamous story In the long history of Washington: A handful of public call-in votes determine what Joker should be get a crowbar to Jason Todd’s face, leaving bloodstained, lifeless flesh.Of course this is a comic, so Jason Finally getting better(?)but fans and publishers have long been fascinated by what could happen, and now the latter is actually imagining it.
Over the years we have seen fit and startwhat might have happened if that infamous phone-voting storyline Already gone the way of Jasonbut now DC will fully imagine it Death in the family: Robin is alive!
The new four-issue miniseries from JM DeMatteis and artist Rick Leonardi will pick up immediately from the original alternate ending in 1988 batman Chapter 428—Iterations of the book have sat in DC’s vaults for decades before actually hitting print last year as a facsimile re-release of the classic edition and seeing the beginnings of a brutally tortured but still alive Jason Todd Plotting revenge on the Joker for nearly killing him.
“It has been both a challenge and a joy to continue this classic and controversial story and follow in the footsteps of two creators I greatly admire, Jim Starling and Jim Aparo,” DeMatteis said in a press release. It’s a great opportunity to tell a story that’s action-packed but also gets inside the heads of our main characters as we ponder what would have happened if Jason Todd had survived the Joker’s brutal attack. There are things like To have a master like Rick Leonardi bring it to life visually? I couldn’t ask for more.”
first issue Death in the family: Robin is alive! It is scheduled to be released on July 10th.
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