However, that’s a scenario for another day and future circumspect. After four years of waiting for the conclusion to this long-dangling mystery, readers would be justified in their bitterness if the answer were to be swept under the rug. The question is, though, will Three Jokers even have an impact on larger DC continuity now that it’s all said and done? Or will it be confined to the same little “Geoff Johns bubble” as Doomsday Clock and the author’s recently-concluded Shazam! run? Stories that, while structurally solid and urgent in their relative scopes, seem to exist in a relative vacuum despite setting up major plot points that are largely ignored throughout the rest of the DCU. Batman: Three Jokers concludes with a quiet revelation that codifies the answer to the longest-asked question in the character’s eighty-year history: Who is the Joker?
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