Provided it serves some kind of function within the narrative. ?Let?s have the Joker randomly stab a guy in the face with a bottle/ rape his henchman?s wife/ butcher a vulnerable old couple with a razor, etc - just to show how nasty and amoral he is.?ĭon?t get me wrong, I?ve no aversion to gore in comics or movies. I imagine the creative process must have been not unlike that for a horror film namely sitting down and making a list of brutal set pieces, then creating a vague narrative to accommodate them. I never felt there was any kind of structure beyond the author?s predilection for arbitrary gore. It reeked of the gratuitous Sin City sleaze that dominated ?adult? comics back in the 90s, and I was saddened to see a character like Harley Quinn reduced to a mute pole dancer for the sake of making the book seem ?edgy?.įrom a dramatic perspective, the narrative was all over the place.
The whole thing felt like a series of disparate set pieces designed to shock and offend.
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