It’s intentional. Batman is off-balance and a half beat behind for this whole story arc.
Hitting Joker with his off fist, and revealing his true rage, is evidence that his methodical calculated master strategist is chipping thin, revealing the raw broken child underneath, who is simply desperate to prevent what happened before from happening again, at any cost.
spoiler for Kightfall
It’s why Bane is able to casually walk into his home and break him in half in the next (chronological) issue.
This is an interesting and good characterization, but I don’t think the point of the comment. Just in terms of physics, punching with the left fist, for whatever reason, should have flung Joker to his left, not right.
It’s intentional. Batman is off-balance and a half beat behind for this whole story arc.
Hitting Joker with his off fist, and revealing his true rage, is evidence that his methodical calculated master strategist is chipping thin, revealing the raw broken child underneath, who is simply desperate to prevent what happened before from happening again, at any cost.
spoiler for Kightfall
It’s why Bane is able to casually walk into his home and break him in half in the next (chronological) issue.
This is an interesting and good characterization, but I don’t think the point of the comment. Just in terms of physics, punching with the left fist, for whatever reason, should have flung Joker to his left, not right.
That’s fair.
The art in the whole comic has a fever dream vibe. So I think it may be an intentional artistic choice.
Edit: The whole series, and this comic in particular, is trying to make the reader feel “no, no, this is wrong”.