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Warning ! spoiler forward for Batman # 142!Superman ’s iconic prison house has nothing on the torturous holding facilityBatgirlis one day go to design for theJoker . The Phantom Zone is ill-famed for make the outlaw too much for even Superman to handle . But when Barbara Gordon begins call the shot at GCPD , she design an unsettling prison imply for the Clown Prince of Crime .
InBatman # 142by Chip Zdarsky , Giuseppe Camuncoli , and Andrea Sorrentino , a glimpse into the future reveals a Gotham that ’s only have worse as time has gone on . The Joker is stillthe most problematical military unit facing Gotham , forcing future tense Commissioner Barbara Gordon to take extreme mensuration .
Rather thanthrowing Joker in Arkham , the former Batgirl devised a machine that wouldkeep Joker immobilize in a practical worldwhere he always fight , and mislay to Batman . While the gadget was successful , an Arkham doctor incidentally helpedJoker escape from one of his most secure prisons ever .
Batgirl Almost Made a Joker-Proof Prison
On the Earth’s surface , Joker seems to be no unlike from many of Batman ’s other scoundrel like Riddler or Two - Face . However , Joker has gone above and beyond what the other Gotham rogues have done . He ’s survived who knows how many near - death experiences and escaped from the most secure of adroitness . Some have entertained kill the Joker and putting an terminal to him for good . However , Batman and most of his allies refuse to cross that line and go within the system as it survive . It ’s not a double-dyed scheme , butBatman refuses to go down to his worst enemy ’s level .
Batgirl , on the other hired hand , has all the ground in the world to want to make Joker suffer . She ’d never break Bruce ’s formula against accept a life , but she ’s more than felicitous to trap Joker in a false reality where he turn a loss over and over again . Superman is often criticized for his last resort hotel , the Phantom Zone , but his harsh prison is at least real - life and not a false realness Superman is immobilise his worst enemies in . Of course , one could argue that if anyone deserves to betrapped forever in a practical system , it ’s the Joker .
Is Batgirl’s Joker Prison the Right Answer?
Batgirl has come the closest the Bat - Family ’s come to defeating the Joker . Is it ripe to lock up someone and colour their image of reality ? If that someone is the Joker , many would probably say yes . There ’s very niggling Gotham ’s heroes can do to stop the Joker for good , but this almost did it ( and it would have work out had it not been for the misguided doctor who helped Joker scat ) . While it ’s a dark telephone circuit Bat - Family would be treading , Batgirl’santi - Jokerprison might be the only means to stop his sovereignty of terror for trade good .
Batman # 142is available now from DC Comics .
Batman # 142(2024 )
