So without giving too much away, it'll be something I'm pretty sure will be addressed elsewhere. I think it's going to come out, not in Batman itself but in - I can't say where, because as with most Joker things, those things usually bleed into other Bat-books and you get to see some stuff in other books once things get really crazy in Batman.

Can you address how he has it now? Snyder: That's the thing. But last we saw, Joker's daughter had sewn his face onto her face. We see the Joker has what appears to be his rotted face with him. IGN: I have another picky question for you. It's all like, 'Well, sir, when it comes to red sun technology in your gauntlet.' I am an expert in comic book science. My wife is a doctor, and I love going to doctor functions and you're talking to physicists. I did like the 'Red Giant' fist with the mini-suns in the knuckles. So in that way he's not capable of making a shield around the knuckles anymore. It's meant to be like the system of the suit is now pretty badly dented. So the idea is that when he drops the building on him, it damages the suit. So why did the shield not kick in the second time? Snyder: Because he dropped a building on him. Batman has this shield that blocks Superman's heat vision, then two pages later Superman uses his heat vision again, but that time it works and melts his robot arm. IGN: My next question is more of a technical question. So to bring it back to Earth and say, 'This is pretty scary,' we start to get into that mode. To have that person try and kill him at the Joker's hands, there's almost nothing more nightmarish in some ways. So for me my thinking was that you show a really fun way that Batman can win, but you remind people that deep down, even though it's hard for us to be like, 'Who would win in a fight?' it's terrifying for him. He appears in Batman #1 in 1940, so by December, it's really now his party starting. My 75th anniversary starts once this year ends.' And it is.

On the other hand, it's a story that really turns into the Joker saying, 'Your party's over.

So putting him against the Justice League makes sense. Partly the story is a celebration of Batman's 75th anniversary, and I wanted as many elements in there that really affirm him as this incredibly fun superhero that we all love. As fans, we bring up that question a lot: Who would win in a fight, Batman or Superman? But Batman says here, 'If we're fighting, nobody wins.' So what was your approach to the outcome and Batman's feelings about it? Scott Snyder: I wanted it to be fun, first of all, and I wanted it to be that kind of thing where it is that fanboy moment and you crack your knuckles and you're like, 'Alright, here we go. Batman has a bit of meta commentary on his fight with Superman. IGN Comics: Before we get to the Joker, I wanted to talk about the fight Batman has with a Superman who has been drugged with Joker toxin.

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