DC Comics and Batman Incorporated #9 Spoilers and Review follows.
A Weaponized Joker Inc. That’s Fatal To Its Villains, Hostages and Batman Inc.?!
What To Expect.
BATMAN INCORPORATED #9
Written by ED BRISSON
Art and cover by JOHN TIMMS
Variant cover by JAMES STOKOE
1:25 variant cover by JOHN TIMMS
DC Pride variant cover by ROSI KAMPE
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 6/13/23Joker Incorporated has unleashed a game of terror across the globe. Thousands of lives are at stake as Joker, the Tap Dance Man, Corvus Cawl, the Ghoul, Alpaca, Dusty Bronco, and Dai Laffyn roll out their twisted plan of chaos and mayhem. In order to defeat Joker Inc., Batman Incorporated may have to cross a line the group promised never to cross.
In addition the main cover and solicitation above the title has a few variant covers below.
Batman Incorporated #9 Spoilers and Review.
The book opens in Argentina with the Tap Dance Man of Joker Inc. holding hostages, but the Joker stops him from killing his hostages so that he can show Batman Inc.’s Ghost-Maker and El Gaucho how he’s weaponized his “allies”.
So, the Joker has set up a failsafe where his Joker Inc. members can be remotely killed in a way that also kills anyone around them including their hostages with that patented Joker Gas.
Elsewhere, across the globe, Batman Inc. members are attacked by their paired Joker Inc. members.
Joker has Batman Inc. literally spread thin across the world dealing with the Joker Inc. hostage takings.
There’s murder by Joker Inc. members here and here too, at least not just by the Joker.
The Joker “frees” his hostages, but there would appear more that plot point than has been revealed so far.
The book ends in Australia with Batman Inc.’s Wingman and Dark Ranger vs. Joker Inc.’s Dark Avenger.
He is not fatally subdued.
As Batman Inc. now knows about how the Joker has weaponized Joker Inc., Ghost-Maker tells his allies that they need to kill their Joker Inc. counterparts for the greater good going back on their “no kill” policy that they agreed to with the OG Batman.
Wingman and Dark Ranger disagree over killing the Dark Avengers allowing the latter to awake and impale Wingman?!
The Pulse.
Lots of action, drama and intrigue. A high stakes issue hat felt like a summer blockbuster film. Great art too. 8.5 out of 10.
