Batman: The Death of the Family

A very exciting multipart story--the first DC "event" crossover in years that is genuinely an event (the last one I cared about was "Identity Crisis" years ago). The Joker's new look is incredibly horrific. Who do you think will end up dead by the end of it? Rumors are a member of the Batman family is going to be killed. And what was the object the Joker showed the other villains that horrified them so much?

• The Joker's hideous new look: (he had his old face skinned off, and now it's just held onto his underflesh with tape)

  http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130207221644-joker-reveal-vertical-gallery.jpg

• I'd like the Joker to be killed. When I was a young adult I wrote a story called "Who Shot The Joker?" I was peeved over Jason Todd being killed. (I liked the original one, not the snot-nosed Post-Crisis Jason.) I didn't care much for Batgirl being shot and molested either. So I wrote this story about the Joker getting shot. Sgt. Bullock grilled the suspects: Jim Gordon, Barbara, Alfred, among others. Jim thinks Babs did it and vice/versa. My favorite line was Alfred's when he says to Bullock: "Surely, you're not suggesting 'the Butler did it.'" The shooter was going to be a woman I revealed as Jason's true birth mother who came to Gotham to avenge Jason's death. Bats figures it out only he lets the mother go.

• Here's a CNN article about it. it sounds sort of gruesome--like it's too inspired by the "Saw" movies and is trying to gross you out.

  http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/showbiz/joker-batman-shocker/%3Fhpt%3Den_c1