JOKERS ASYLUM MAD HATTER #1
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Art by KEITH GIFFEN & BILL SIENKIEWICZ
Cover by BILL SIENKIEWICZ
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
There are certain tropes in writing that are near instant turn-offs for me: nazi villains, characters who are aware that they're characters in a story, and references to Alice in Wonderland are the ones that prickle my skin the fastest. It seems every two or three years someone thinks creating a new movie/comic/illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland is necessary. It's an obsession for some writers. Especially DC writers. The inclusion of an Alice in Wonderland reference in Rucka's Detective Comics was the one part of it that I didn't enjoy. So it was with a bit of trepidation that I picked up the Mad Hatter issue of Joker's Asylum II.
You simply can't write a Mad Hatter story without Alice. But in this comic, I thought Landry Walker used the Alice trope very well. The fact that Jervis so badly WANTS the girls he stalks to be called Alice, and gets so angry when they have other names is much creepier than if the girls really were named Alice. And Mad Hatter's tea obsession being treated as though it was a hard drug was fantastic. I don't remember it being used before, which, if nothing else, is a testament to how well it used here.
Giffen and Sienkiewicz's post-it note infused art is a great vehicle for the story, and they play off each other very well.
Art: 4 - Very Good
You see how many tea bags MH used? Tea that strong would be a hard drug! 🙂
Truth!
And those leaves were toxic to begin with.