A bit rushed and mashed up
Death of the Family continues. I was impressed by Batman 13 even though I feel it started of better than it finished. This issue keeps on at the same pacing and style as the last issue ended with. That many very short sections, almost snippets, telling a fast paced story. For me, these snippets have the same problem as the end of the last issue. It becomes a bit rushed and messed up. It build towards a climax but you can feel the writer wanting to get forward in the story and it makes a lose a bit of the interest in the story.
Fortunatly it builds toward an amazingly told climax. Joker plays Batman when he sets up a similiar crime as an early encounter between Batman and Joker and then kills the same amount of people which died the first time. His monologue about knowing the identity of Batman and the whole Batfamily reeks of crazy and genius. Snyder really makes Joker into an absolut outside to Batmans logic.
This keeps on in the afterstory to the comic. In this Joker tells Penguin of his plans by claiming the ambition to erase the criminals which feeds Batmans existence in Gotham. Joker plays to his own reasoning when claiming crime to be the religion which keeps the city which Batman rules alive. This point of view makes me very interested in the story even if I have endure Snyders rushing pace.
