The Darkest Batman Universe 

Dude, Bermejo watched this! He posted it on his Instagram story!!!

I hope this one performs well enough to buy you a house and get some tail.

The batman who laughs just stole his entire look and his personality from judge death

I loved The Joker. The whole time youre like "where tf is Batman?!" And when he finally shows up you finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Unexpected but appreciated "ForrestFire101" reference

The main message of this universe seems to be "Batman wouldn't outweigh all the other awful horrors of Gotham. Leaving would be the sane option. Instead, Bruce begs people to stay in Hell, with him..."

Personally I didn't like the ending to Damned, the wording of "I wish he were still alive" just feels really contrived and out of character to justify the ending, I don't care much they bait their dynamic as romantic, if the Joker died of a prostate cancer Bats would sleep easy for the first time in his life. I think he would've worked better if he said something to the effect of "I wish I didn't do it", reframing Batman's guilt as directed to breaking his code rather than the worst person since Hitler dying in his vicinity.

*Laughs in A Serious House on Serious Earth.*

If we were to get another installment / sequel to Damned, I hope it's Red Hood book - exploring Bruce and Jason's relationship and how the Joker destroyed it.

Oh and In the panel with joker coming out of the water aside from it being a cool killing joke homage, the lights from the city in the background spell out "HA HA" It's so dope and easy to miss

I fucking love that Azzarello's "joker"

There was a time people collectively losing their mind over Bat-Dong. What a time.

I love the idea of Batman originally trying to scare the kid out of a life of crime, but then unintentionally inspiring him to *presumably* fight crime (not like as a vigilante but yk) I really appreciate that. 🤷‍♂️

I loved this book. Also the incision on Harley was Y cut from an autopsy. I'm thinking this is batmans purgatory

13:02 Edward misrepresented one of Batman's most badass scenes. Joker was accusing Batman of being vain, because he leaves his jawline exposed even though it would be more practical to cover it with bulletproof armor like the rest of his cowl. Then Batman drops down and casually reveals the real reason he exposes his mouth is to mock pathetic criminal scum like Joker, which triggers Mr.J so much he kills his own right-hand man.

5:54 I wasn't prepared for this shot of nostalgia

The Luthor mini is probably the closest to being canon to the main universe. I still love it for portraying Lex by way of Patrick Bateman, with Bruce as his Paul Allen. “I have hope.”

Man, Azzarello had quite the interesting interpretation of the DCU Lex Luthor, Man of Steel and his run on Wonder Woman during The New 52 are easily some of the most peak of modern Cape Comics, imo. Joker and Noel were not my cup of tea, but even I can’t deny how excellent Lee Bermejo is when it comes to how well he can carry a story with his visual storytelling alone

Love how bermejos batman looks like robert pattison if he was fuming with 40 pounds of muscle, and his version of joker is perfect to me, he's supposed to be sadistic and vile its in his nature to see the funny side of existence and that to him is just nothing. Existing is the joke, and death is the punchline to him he doesn't always have to be cracking jokes and being goofy like the golden age joker.

I think the intention of the writers is to remind the audience how irredeemable Joker is as a character because he does some truly abhorrent stuff. This is a character that also happens to be as popular as Batman and he's a fictional psychopathic serial killer.

Batman's ultimate villain and his true dark reflection is owlman

Im feeling the custom dialogue bubbles

The batman who trys too hard is wack and is cringe

Azzarello has one of the darkest Joker interpretations. One most people wouldn't like.

I honestly think if done right the family friendly batman can be great

I love lil niche videos like this that pop up outta no where. Good editing brother

What I really like about comic books is. You can have a favorite character and have completely different flavors of fed character that are independent in some instances and interconnected in others

@ 34 seconds "STFU Bro!" LOL!!! You had me rolling! This is the first of your videos that I've seen but I like your sense of humor, your take on the story and the way you break things down. I'll be subscribing!

I’m so happy somebody actually coined this term! All of these titles are some of my favorites in recent history and I’ve never seen such a dope in-depth analysis of this universe! Thank you so much for doing this. Liked and subscribed.

Video essays like this are the perfect shit to eat dinner too. Eating and watching show shows is hard to pay attention too. Cheers for the review and comedy

Wow this is actually a really entertaining and well out video! Hope you get more views

Ngl bro you deserve to do this shit as a full time job, enjoyed every second of this video which then led me to check out other vids as well and they were just as good. I never leave comments but I had to for you bro hope this is what takes you to the next level 🙏🌻

Awesome video, and always great to see a mrsundaymovies Caravan of Garbage clip in the wild :D

Great video boss laughed my head off 🤘🏽😂

Truly an amazing video, great job buddy keep up the amazing work

There was another short story in the anthology Batman: The World that was also by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo if you wanted to check

I’m NGL I really love your narration and how you play around with sound design You got a sub from me

27:47 You actually made this sound so good, Reading that part was painful lmao but you made it work, wow 😂

BANGER VIDEO shoutout to the youtube recommended page for showing me the channel

Amazing job on this video

dudeeeeee, Lee Bermejo mentioned your video in his story.

In the joker comic, if I remember correctly, Batman didn’t say his armor was to mock the joker, he said that about the only hole _in_ his armor, which is the chin area. Joker asks him why he leaves that reminder to everyone that he’s just a handsome dude in a suit, and Batman says “to mock you.”

Just found this channel. Subscribed based on how good this was. I'm now searching for these Batman editions because i REALLY want to read them. Keep up the amazing work. PS. Great narration, too. A natural voice with inflections. So much berretthan the AI voiceovers. AWESOME!!!

Berello-Verse. Also, this made me go and read every single book, and honestly, thinking about them all being in one universe makes it better. Doesn't mean I wan Berello-Verse Aquaman pissing in a fish but the universe thing being made like this really enhances everything. 8/10 imo.

I generally do my Gothamites to be edgelords, but damned was a little too much even for me. I'll have to look at it again in a new light because I enjoy all of these other titles.

Great work brother 💯

Great video🤙

Keep it up this was a blast

Great video, you have a new subscriber.

that joker comic blew my mind in middle school. my buddy’s brother worked in a comic shop and recommended this one

Great content!

In between the Batman Noel skin, and the new 2022 Batman Movie skin, as well as the Flashpoint , those 3 are my top dogs in Akrham Knight I just love em

God i love Bermejo and Azzerello they're the perfect duo for when tackling batman or any DC related character. I hope they make another DC black label comic book with batman or Red Hood. I also hope they make animated movies out of joker and batman damned

Pure art harlequin striping is amazing

You had me at "shut the f*ck up." At least somebody said it... Great video, and your side comments in that muffled voice were hilarious! Also, at 25:30, the mist in the tunnel looks like an actual face.

Constantine can travel between earth, hell, and I'm pretty sure other dimensions. Why not let him break the fourth wall with a 60s robin impersonation

The book is narrated by John Constantine Me: Oh no

U kno who deserve Batman Who Laughs place right now? Vampire Batman! Perfect ANTI Batman! Magic instead science,an actual monster instead of tools and theatrics, and Uncontrolled instead controlled! Plus Vampire Batman is Metal enough! Dark Night: Metal will be betterif it has Vampire Bats as the main villain

incredible job

Great video

I can understand if you didn’t like the “joker” story but I feel like you should really give it another shot some time. It’s one of my favorites because it’s a lot deeper than explained here especially how it’s told from Jonnys perspective and he’s trying to get out that life and he knows it’s bad but it’s dragging him back but ultimately it kills him. There’s parts where you can tell he kinda looks up to him inna way and the joker is just a destructive person that destroys the things he cares about like the part (forgot how it went) but you kinda can tell he’s mad and annoyed that jonnys sticking with him. Idk it’s deeper than I explained too but it’s good I feel like it’s an overlooked gem by a lot of people

I think Bermejo is like a dark version of Alex Ross. I like both for different reasons. Great video btw

I am a fan of the Bermezarelloverse and LOVED this video. Excellent job!!!

it would be cool to see more from these two, batman or otherwise.

I really loved Noel and Joker, wanted to read Lex Luthor. Damned sounds terrible, I think I'm gonna skip that one unless another sequel justifies it or it's heavily discounted

6:33 so that’s the comic that Lex Luther meme came from 😂

Rapping Etrigan is a good idea...

27:35 weekly planet jumpscare

Awesome video

Something about you saying shut the fuck up bro at the beginning made me subscribe

Liked this vid a lot, thanks

Good breakdown, pretty funny.

Forresfire101 reference 🗣‼ ‼‼

No joke dear detective is amazing and we need more creator led stuff like it

If you’re new to this and want encouragement, I loved this video I’m very un enamored with the Batman, who laughs death of the family from the 2010s almost made me stop reading comics as a whole after a few years of disillusionment with continuity And it’s for a lot of the reasons you listed keep it up as far as I’m concerned, you have great opinions

Lore of The Darkest Batman Universe momentum 100

This was a great video. I don’t really read comics. Only Batman, TMNT, and Judge Dredd. I like gritty noir type stories. I’m definitely gonna give this a try in this order.

Loving the Mr Sunday Movies cameos

5:53 This struck a memory with me! Some of those are still kinda funny lol

that etrigan rap bit was fire

9:43 I see where they got the Penguin design for THE BATMAN

Or that part in the Joker comic when he R-worded Frost’s girl in the back of the car while he makes Johnny hear it and sit in the corner. Straight up messed up.

Noel batsuit Ngl probably in my top 5 favorite batsuits it makes Batman look so damn cool

when i saw this batman costume i immediately said oh batman noel because of the arkham knight skin but i did read the joker a long time ago so its cool to see that theres sm i didnt even know abt

Batman: Damned was the longest, most convoluted, and worst one of this bunch.

i only read the joker one had no idea there was this many

Bat-shaft

5:54 holy shit a Forestfire101 reference, I thought I was the only one who watched that

18:09 what’s insane to me, is that I actually voiced the Ghost of Christmas Present in a radio production of a Christmas Carol, and I’m currently recording lines for a Superman fan project AS SUPERMAN (Kind of narcissistic, but I just thought it was interesting)

Subscribed after the first 35 seconds 😂

These are all enjoyable, and each story elevates the others in this 'series'. I also think of them as taking place in the same parallel reality, or whatever. I don't think they're perfect, though - Damned, especially, has issues for me. For instance, Batman gets damned for killing a mass murderer? Give me a break. There's an argument to be made that he might get damned for being selfish enough to NOT kill Joker. I know ya'll have read that Punisher issue penned by Ennis? You know the one - the one with Daredevil, which serves as the 'trolley problem' for superhero comics' 'no-kill policy'. And in that comic, Ennis pretty much squashes the whole 'heroes should never kill' rule. Because it's dumb. I mean, I get it - these are good people with standards and morals, and they don't want to elevate themselves above the law. But they also have a responsibility to save innocents, and one broken, pasty white neck would save hundreds, if not more, innocent lives. I still really enjoyed Damned, it's great. Also enjoyed Darwin Cooke's Ego, which deals with Batman not killing, too, but I just don't agree with the conclusions to this black-and-white-morality argument. Batman occasionally going Punisher on a rogue or two would not send him spiraling into 'murder mode' where he turns into the Batman Who Laughs, or something (def an overused concept, if there ever was one - kinda like the Phoenix-force and mutants living on Krakoa). Batman has crazy will-power. He could take Joker out and deal with it, and Gotham would be a better place.

Basically I call Batman damned twin peaks fire walk with me Batman hehehe

27:48 and 42:42 got me cracking up lmao. Noel and Lex Luthor was interesting but other stories are kinda boring for me but the art is amazing.

how tf do u only have 13k

The fact that most fans of Batman Who Laughs never read the comics, and most of haters actually did, says a lot about Concept.VS.Execution.

27:49 IS STRAIGHT BARZ 🔥🔥🔥

Ghost of past should have been nightwing

Thank you always wanted to know which comics had this art/suit love the Noel suit. The Batman 2022’s Gotham looks very similar so that’s awesome. Also f*ck Bob Kane. P.S fully agree with you view on the Batman Who laughs. Mad overrated by people who probably don’t read that much Batman, it kinda strikes a fan fiction tbh.

I guess it depends on how you look at it, in the dark knight returns the iconic line, “all the people I’ve killed by letting you live”

Batman be hittin that binger haawrd in the thumbnail huh?