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Daniel Capito Playing A Very Long Game With The Joker in Batman #145

Batman #145 is out today. A few months ago, Bleeding Cool ran a little bit of Bat Gossip that promised "more of Batman's trainers"

Batman #145 is out today. A few months ago, Bleeding Cool ran a little bit of Bat Gossip that promised "more of Batman's trainers from Batman: The Knight by Chip Zdarsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico are going to be relevant, and you may want a reread before Joker Year One starts. Because the Joker had to learn some of this stuff from someone, right?"

And so in Batman #142 he gets recruited…

Daniel Captio not only trained Bruce Wayne to be Batman in the Batman: The Knight series. But he also trained the Joker. And what could he teach him?

Doctor Daniel Captio was an expert mentalist capable of complete conscious control over both his brain and body. Dr Daniel Capito taught Bruce Wayne to mentally control his own body, but failed at controlling his own brain, to  control his fear and emotions. Or so we believed. But we believed wrong, Bruce Wayne did learn the lesson, and that is how he created Zur-En-Arrh, his back-up personality.

In the Grant Morrison/Andy Kubert Batman comics. Zur En Arrh was revealed as a backup personality created after a hallucination Batman suffered when exposed to Professor Milo's gas, intended to take over for Bruce Wayne if he was ever psychologically attacked in such a manner as to render Batman out of action. And he even encountered the Joker in this form.

Because Dr Daniel Capito has his own backup personality, Kahr Em Zed, which we learned in Batman #143 was where he has kept all of his anger, the ability to do such was his lesson. It was this that Bruce Wayne learned and did to himself under this instruction before everyone forgot it, creating Zur-En-Arrh. Joker also received the lesson, creating the Three Jokers layered within himself, all the way down.

However did he succeed training the Joker to do just that?  Solicits for next month's Batman #146 read "The explosive Dark Prisons continues as Batman learns from an old mentor what Zur's plans are for Gotham City" and we wondered if maybe Zur-En-Arrh has he own deal with Dr Daniel Capito.

Today's Batman #145 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez and Michele Bandini suggests that may have been the case all along. As his jailer, as well as the Joker and others that Zur-En-Arrh picked up off the street. And it turns out that Daniel Capito had been using the Joker to push Batman as well.

All to bring Zur-En-Arrh to the fore, with a series of events.

Such as The Joker attacking Bruce Wayne, kidnapping Alfred Pennyworth and taking his stuff way back when in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Death Of The Family? Eventually leading to chopping his hand off in Endgame?

And in doing so, revealing that the Joker had already always known who he was…

…and had always been playing a game.

Even as now, Zur-En-Arrh has imprisoned Bruce Wayne and the Joker and more… even taking Wayne Manor back from Vandal Savage and dropping him in the hole as well.

Bruce Wayne also no longer has his own hand any more, removed in another dimension by another version of the Joker. Could this have also been a direction heading toward the completely robot version of Batman bow roaming the streets pretending to be Bruce Wayne? How much of this is still the Joker's game? Batman #145 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez and Michele Bandini is published today.

BATMAN #142 CVR A GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & STEFANO NESI
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, Andrea Sorrentino (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli & Stefano Nesi
The tragic death of the leader of the Red Hood Gang in a vat of chemicals has become the subject of myth…but what is the heartbreaking and gruesome tale of the monster who walked away from that violent birth? And how does it affect Batman's distant future? The Joker Year One begins here! Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 2/6/2024

BATMAN #143 CVR A GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & STEFANO NESI
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, Andrea Sorrentino (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli & Stefano Nesi The terrifying tale of The Joker Year One continues as a mysterious figure from Batman's past has come into Joker's orbit, changing the Clown Prince of Crime forever! And what secrets does the re-formed Red Hood Gang have for Batman's future? Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 02/13/2024

BATMAN #144 CVR A GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI & STEFANO NESI
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, Andrea Sorrentino (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli & Stefano Nesi
The climactic, chilling conclusion to The Joker Year One that will have massive repercussions for the future! The Red Hood Gang is on a rampage and the only man who can stop them…is The Joker! And can Batman stop a devastating new virus in a future where The Joker looms over him? Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 2/20/2024

BATMAN #145 CVR A JORGE JIMENEZ
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A/CA) Jorge Jimenez
A THRILLING NEW ARC IS HERE… DARK PRISONS BEGINS! Following The Joker: Year One's stunning reveals, Batman must engineer an escape from Zur's prison…but what dark secret does Zur now hold that's a game changer for the Dark Knight and the entire DC Universe?! Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 3/5/2024

BATMAN #146 CVR A JORGE JIMENEZ
(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Jorge Jimenez, Michele Bandini (CA) Jorge Jimenez
The explosive Dark Prisons continues as Batman learns from an old mentor what Zur's plans are for Gotham City…and the world! Can the Dark Knight escape from a prison designed by the ultimate version of himself? And what nefarious role does The Joker play in all of this? Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 4/2/2024

BATMAN #147
Written by CHIP ZDARSKY Art and cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
With no allies, no weapons, and almost no hope…can Batman fight back before Zur makes a true devil's bargain? The world is about to know Zur's true power! Him and…his new sidekick? "Dark Prisons" continues! $4.99 40 pages Variant $5.99 (card stock) ON SALE 5/7/24

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