Coinciding with the release of the third and final issue of Joker: Killer Smile today, DC Comics has announced that Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino will be reuniting for a one-shot epilogue entitled Batman: The Smile Killer, which is set to delve into the early years of Bruce Wayne and his childhood fascination with the fictional kids TV show The Mr. Smiles Show. Here’s the cover art from Sorrentino, followed by the solicitation…
It wouldn’t be a Joker story without a surprise…and right on cue, here’s an unexpected one-shot epilogue to Joker: Killer Smile! Young Bruce Wayne grew up watching The Mr. Smiles Show—and the show might have been watching him back! And not only was young Bruce watching, he was listening…listening as Mr. Smiles spoke across the airwaves only to him…
The Eisner Award-winning creative team of writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino land one last gut-punch—turning the mythos of the Batman on its head in the most devastating trick The Joker has ever devised!
Batman: The Smile Killer will go on sale in May through the DC Black Label imprint.
