
That’s why he’s resurrecting Jokers as he hops from world to world or powering them up, not appearing at the birth of each Joker to create them. I think he was infected with something when he encountered the birth of the first Joker, the ur-Joker if you will. I think Red Mask CAN create Jokers, but I don’t think he’s the spark that created the first Joker. Was that something we really needed? I hope that’s another bit of canon that gets quickly forgotten.

But a lot of this feels overcomplicated, particularly where we’ve made Joker some kind of multiversal primordial ooze that requires the spark of Red Mask to work. We got some good plot beats, even if one of those nice moments involved Alfred deciding to stay put in his universe rather than coming home with our Bruce. Some of it - in the framing around our multiverse hopping especially - is not so great.

A lot of it is good! Some of the art is spectacular in how it accurately captures other eras and works. Will: Man, is this ever an overstuffed burrito.
