Death of the Family

This week, "Death of the Family" came to its conclusion in Batman #17, putting an exclamation point on the first big Joker story since DC's relaunch in 2011. Over the course of five issues, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo sent Batman's arch-nemesis after the Dark Knight's family of sidekicks…

Animated GIFs have been a big part of the internet for a while, but within the last year or so GIF artists have really upped their game. Case in point: these two GIFs of recent Greg Capullo Batman covers from his and Scott Snyder's current "Death of the Family" storyline...

After he began his tenure in DC's New 52 by cutting off his own face and tacking it to a wall -- hands down one of the weirdest things he's done, which is saying something -- it was pretty clear that when the Joker returned to the pages of Batman a year later, it was going to be a pretty b…