The latest issue of Batman confirms the Dark Knight lives at the end of Arkham Knight, but it’s the bittersweet sendoff the video game should have had. Batman #135 simultaneously serves as a multiverse story and a grand homage to the character’s history in his 900th issue. DC’s main canon Batman gets sucked into an alternate universe where he meets Darwin Halliday aka the Red Mask, a sane version of the Joker. Halliday is a successful CEO of a pharmaceutical company who gets a glimpse of his parallel self in a lab experiment gone wrong. He then becomes obsessed with trying to distort his mind in hopes of becoming the Joker, but when that fails, he settles on hopping into different universes to create Jokers.
