DC has released a first look at the follow-up to Joker: Killer Smile, writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino’s Batman: The Smile Killer! According to DC the prestige format Black Label one-shot epilogue “takes a different look at the Clown Prince of Crime, through the eyes of a young Bruce Wayne and his favorite cartoon television show.”
“Bruce Wayne grew up watching The Mr. Smiles Show – and the show might have been watching him back! And not only was young Bruce watching, he was listening… listening as Mr. Smiles spoke across the airwaves only to him… Lemire and Sorrentino land one last gut-punch to the mythos of the Batman, turning it on its head in the most devastating trick The Joker has ever devised!”
The $5.99 Batman: The Smile Killer goes on sale Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The book will feature DC’s “Black Label” content descriptor, appropriate for readers 17 and older.