Scripting the third act of a trilogy is a tough act, the stakes are at their highest then: no-one expects anything of the unknown first entry and the second is cut some slack for having to stand as a bridge between the other two but the third, the third has to realize every hope and expectation that the audience has had throughout the series so far. It’s now or never, no more next time and other such adages. I had no qualms about quickly declaring my love for this limited series after its debut, I then hid none of my love for the sophomore issue and so I shouldn’t shy away from saying how sad this finale made me feel, how deeply disappointed I was to turn to its final page and see that this is it.

Would I say that it’s the worst comic I ever read? Only if I was joking, I was disappointed only that it was over, and speaking of there has been a lot of talk this week about the announcement that Scott Snyder would be scripting the clown’s climactic return to comics but these people all seem to be forgetting one very important thing; that B. Clay Moore and Ben Templesmith have been nailing him right here for three straight issues. They haven’t just crafted a Joker story here in the digital Legends of the Dark Knight that could stand alongside the main Batman book, Crisis in Identity is instead the comic that one will have to look up to, the standard that Snyder will have to try and compete with.

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