Writer Tom King has taken a fairly risky approach to depicting the events of "The War of Jokes and Riddles." That war has mostly unfolded in the background of the series, with King and his partners less concerned with chronicling the battles themselves than the effect they're having on the major players and those innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire. That approach continues in Batman #27, the first of several interlude issues focused on the origin story of Kite-Man. This issue succeeds in transforming that villain from goofy comic relief to tragic, integral player in this devastating conflict.
Not unlike The Killing Joke did for Joker, "The Ballad of Kite Man" sets out to explore the hellish circumstances that transform an ordinary man into a costumed lunatic. King immediately succeeds in painting Chuck "Charlie" Brown as a sympathetic figure, one unwillingly dragged into Joker, Riddler and Batman's war and used as a hapless pawn by all three sides. The tone of this issue is equal parts absurd and fatalistic. There's a an almost silly quality to the way Chuck bounces from one costumed character to the next, but also an unnerving sense that it's not a question of whether his luck will run out, but when. And by the time it does, it's impossible not to feel for this budding supervillain.
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