{"id":2092,"date":"2008-05-20T06:22:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T06:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2009-01-14T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:50:05","slug":"batman-dark-joker-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/05\/20\/batman-dark-joker-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Dark Joker &#8212; The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Batman: Dark Joker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/batman-dark-joker-the-wild.jpg\" alt=\"Batman Dark Joker\" width=\"250\" height=\"374\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batman: Dark Joker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <strong>Doug Moench<\/strong>, <strong>Kelley Jones<\/strong> &amp; <strong>John Beatty<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-56389-111-5 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1563891403 (trade paperback)<\/p>\n<p>Released under the <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Elseworlds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> banner, where familiar properties are mixed with new or exotic genres outside regular continuities, this tale is a full-on traditional fantasy set in a feudal, mystic world of flying castles, wizards and monsters. Lilandra and Majister are sorcerers locked in a lifelong duel with an evil wizard. Sacrificing their lives and that of a baby they have mystically conjured, the pair create a fearsome beast that will eventually inflict their revenge on the terrifying Dark Joker and save the humans of the rural idyll known as The Wild.<\/p>\n<p>But before the bat-winged monster can rescue innocent mankind from Dark Joker&#8217;s depredations, a beautiful, doomed woman named Saressa must tame the beast and teach it the humanity its tragic upbringing has deprived it of\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Although some of Jones and Beatty&#8217;s best artwork, this is not one of author Moench&#8217;s best scripts, managing somehow to be both heavy-handed and flimsy at the same time. The fantasy milieu is quite forced at times, his dialogue florid (even for Moench!) and the story seems unsure of its audience; injecting utterly unnecessary moments of gory excess into a solid plot that could with a little judicious pruning be quite recommendable for a younger readership.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty but flawed, this is a book only really for the committed fan and collector.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1993 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Moench, Kelley Jones &amp; John Beatty (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-56389-111-5 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1563891403 (trade paperback) Released under the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Elseworlds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d banner, where familiar properties are mixed with new or exotic genres outside regular continuities, this tale is a full-on traditional fantasy set in a feudal, mystic world of flying castles, wizards and monsters. Lilandra &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/05\/20\/batman-dark-joker-the-wild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman: Dark Joker &#8212; The Wild&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[198,47],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-graphic-novels","tag-batman","tag-joker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-xK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}