DC Comics
Kyle Higgins, writer
Eddy Barrows, artist
The last couple issues of Nightwing have mentioned the ongoing "Death of the Family" story line carrying the Joker through all of the Bat-books, but with this issue, Nightwing enters the crossover event with both feet. Over in Batman, the Clown Prince of Crime has said that he knows each of the Bat-family's true identities. To prove it, he has begun targeting people around each of them in their daily lives. This has already caused some friction between Batman and the rest of his group, but the continuing attacks take the focus off that animosity and redirect each of the heroes' ire back at the Joker.
In Nightwing's case, Joker is targeting current and former members of Haly's Circus, the childhood home of young aerialist Dick Grayson, and currently the business Dick recently acquired and is trying to revitalize.
We only see the now-faceless Joker in a few panels in this issue, but Barrows does a good job of imitating the Joker's new look from the pages of Batman. And the rest of what we see and read is sufficiently ghastly to fit right in with the rest of this grisly crossover.
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