‘Batman: Three Jokers #1’ is a Bit Redundant but Still Worth Reading

Writer: Geoff Johns / Artist: Jason Fabok / DC Comics Way back in 2016, it was revealed in Justice League #50 that the Joker was actually three people instead of one. And that’s pretty much all fans had to work with outside of Reddit threads and conspiracy theories. After a lot of patience and delays, readers will finally get their questions answered in Batman: Three Jokers. The series brings back Geoff Johns, who wrote the Justice League issue that first introduced the notion. Johns involvement in the series is an overall benefit because he’s proven that he has a deep, encyclopedic knowledge of comics, which is regularly used in this first issue as there are callbacks to Batman canon both big and small. To set the world of this series, the story starts off with Batman, Batgirl, and the Red Hood each on the trail of a different murder committed by the Joker. But there’s one major problem, they were all committed in different parts of Gotham City, and the timelines don’t add up. One of the Jokers is referred to as “The Criminal,” and kills the member of a notorious Gotham City crime family. A second is called “The Comedian,” killed a television host and is a clear callback to The Killing Joke. The last is suspected of killing a doctor from Arkham who was studying the psychological effects of superheroes and villains. He has direct ties to the murder of Jason Todd.

Gotham PD officers are convinced that two of the suspects are imposters, which would be the easiest assumpti…