The final battle between the Joker and the Riddler is here and is up to Bruce to find a way to end it at last but things might not go the way he planned.
... And this is it, this is what the story has been building-up all the time and believe me, at this point you should have expected a disappointment.
I'm going to say this, as you might remember I was initially hyped for this arc despite of how overwhelming and obnoxious Tom King's style can be because at the very least it seemed, well, different. It had interesting characterization and consequences that I rarely see for either the Joker and the Riddler which made me invested into knowing what was going to happen.
And that was my mistake since, I can't believe I need to remind everyone of this and that includes myself: People, different doesn't automatically mean good.
Especially when you create a disjointed, overlong story where in every chapter barely anything happens. That's what The War of Jokes and Riddles has been for the most part, flashbacks are a pretty interesting and different method to tell a story but it ultimately acumulated a bunch of themes that are classic from King's work but in this case, he never managed to put them together in a compelling way. The character work might have been intriguing at some points but the story went for so long that it not only affected the pacing but also it makes you start asking the question: "Why the hell are people acting this strange" and that ends-up breaking your suspension of disbelief.
The ideas are good, the execution is terrible.
Nothing has changed in this last chapter. It still contains the same awkward characterization and even more awkward narration with the Riddler finally explaining the reason why he started this war and let me tell you, is such a forced explanation that I just don't buy it, it just comes off from the Riddler since he's not really this deranged and it makes me think that this was mostly made to create this new development between Batman and the Joker which seems fitting but again, pretty forced due to the pretentious way in which is elaborated.
Oh, and there's progress in the relationship between Bruce and Selina but is something that has been teased for a while and thus, it doesn't come as a surprise.
Mikel Janin's artwork is pretty solid with beautiful characters and style but this bi-weekly format has really affected his sense of polish.
This is just terrible and cements this run as one of the biggest wastes in recent time.
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