Seth Mann — новинки

Выстоит ли Готэм в войне между Джокером и Загадочником?

Джокер и Загадочник – потенциальные союзники, но только на первый взгляд. На заре становления Темного Рыцаря каждый из них решил для себя, что он и только он должен уничтожить Бэтмена... Теперь и тот, и другой скорее сожгут Готэм дотла, чем позволят одержать сопернику верх в Войне Шуток и Загадок. В противостоянии двух преступных гениев каждый злодей в Готэме был поставлен перед выбором: на чью сторону встать – психопата Джокера или обезумевшего Загадочника? Множественные невинные жертвы, вооруженные нападения и разбои – долго же жителям города придется зализывать раны. Даже Бэтмену пришлось прибегнуть к крайним мерам, чтобы помешать кровопролитию. Сумеет ли он остановить войну и не предать свои идеалы?

Любимая критиками звездная команда писателя Тома Кинга («Грэйсон», «Вижн») и художника Микеля Ханина («Темная лига справедливости») представляет вашему вниманию одну из самых мрачных глав саги о Темном Рыцаре – «Бэтмен. Книга 4. Война шуток и загадок». В сборник вошли выпуски #25–32, а также невероятная душераздирающая история появления Кайтмена. О да, мать вашу!

Early in Batman’s career, the Joker and the Riddler would seemingly be natural allies. But each man determined that he and he alone must be the one to kill the Bat...and either would sooner burn down Gotham than be beaten to the punch line.

Untold until now, one of the darkest chapters in Batman’s history sees all of Gotham’s villains choosing sides in a battle of wits that soon turns into a full-blown war—complete with civilian casualties. In the War of Jokes and Riddles, only one side can claim victory...but the scars it leaves will shape Batman’s future as he makes the most important decision of his life.

From the critically acclaimed, best-selling creative team of Tom King (GRAYSON, The Vision) and Mikel Janin (JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK), the epic graphic tale BATMAN: THE WAR OF JOKES AND RIDDLES has quickly embedded itself as one of the great stories in the Dark Knight’s mythology.

Trouble is brewing as Poison Ivy’s sporelings discover their powers and spread their wings, causing mayhem across Gotham City! Plus, a murderer-mastermind is revealed in this penultimate chapter of Life and Death!

Following the reports of Dr Grimley's death the GCPD launch an investigation, first questioning Darshan then requesting Pamela who was seeing to her newly spawned "children". Leaving them to go to the Botanical Gardens the police are only called off after a phone call from the Mayor to release her from interrogation.

Sensing a disturbance in The Green, Pamela ramps up security in her apartment but is disturbed by Winston at her apartment doors. She lets him up under the guise of reciprocating his feelings but instead she kills him and feeds his body to her plants. Soon after, Dashan also knocks upon her door and the two go for coffee whilst planning to break into the now-restricted gardens. Needing to leave, Pamela makes a swift exit leaving behind her glasses.

Inside her apartment she calls for Catwoman to help her but as she arrives, so too does Darshan having been tangled up by Ivy's sentry plants.

Following the death of Doctor Cruz Ivy remarks upon the transient nature of life and death as she grows her plant-animal hybrid and her colleague is killed.

Inside the Botanical Gardens the scientists are all profiled by the GCPD as potential suspects and Ivy is saved from her unstable alibi by co-worker Winston who fictitiously claims the two of them went to see a film together. However, the whole issue does not sit well with Isley and she swears retribution when her "children" are spawned.

A week after the death Isley and Doctor Bapna are assisting in the creation of a memorial for the late Doctor Cruz but two feral Pit Bull dogs jump out at the duo. After dissuading them Ivy seeks out their negligent owner and kills him.

Soon after Ivy and Victor - the head administrator - have a conversation about the stolen research but Victor changes the conversion to how he has discovered Ivy's secret but will not report her, just maintain a wary eye around her.

Outside the office Doctor Bapna confesses to Ivy that he was not the last person to see Cruz alive as he was auditioning for "Gotham's Got Talent", a reality singing show, which is his true passion. Ivy's motion sensors disturb the conversation by indicating that her plant is preparing to spawn and she leaves to see through the "birth" successfully spawning two human-plant babies.

Inside the office Bapna goes to see Doctor Grimley but instead discovers him laid on the floor, drained like Doctor Cruz had been.

Life. Death. Poison Ivy has power over both. But can she keep her friends and hold down a regular job at the same time? As Dr. Pamela Isley, she joins the prestigious plant sciences department at Gotham Botanical Gardens, but things quickly get complicated when a fellow scientist is murdered and it looks like the work of Ivy.