Some thoughts about Batman: Joker's Daughter #1

Coming from the underground, the Joker's Daughter only wants one thing, to find the person who inspired her to become what she is now.

Nothing has been pleasent since she found Joker's peeled face and things are just going to become even worse. Is she truly as insane as her father figure or she's just a little girl playing a game?

Okay, anyone who has been reading The Top Ten Worst DC Comics of 2013 knows that I don't really think that highly of Ann Nocenti's creation, the Joker's Daughter. It was simply a failure in both premise and execution so what could Marguerite Bennett possibly do to make this abomination any better?

Well, for one, she doesn't take the initial premise as seriously. I have to give this to Bennett, she actually tries to give this character some complexity after all the Nocenti nonsense by portraying a girl who is in fact not insane but wants to be it because she disliked her normal life so much. That by itself is a pretty interesting direction for this character and one that it well executed for the most part.

I'm not going to say that this thing is saved or anything since I still find her personality incredibly annoying but Bennett does her best to sell it and if she at least was able to make this tolerable, well that's a great accomplishment.

Meghan Hetrick handles the pencils and while her style is not my favorite, I think it fits into this story. It's pretty horrific and deformed at times but it's actually well suited for the insane story that they're trying to tell.

Decent issue actually, I'm honestly surprised.