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I didn't love it. Honestly, I'd say it's the weakest point in Snyder's Batman run (even though he seems to think it was a high point). I've never felt like he really had a good idea of who the Joker is, and what the Joker's motivations are. So when he put these words into the Joker's mouth, it sounded heavy-handed and really forced. Of the tie-ins, the only one I really liked was for Batgirl. It was the only story with high stakes, and where it didn't feel like the Joker just showed up, dropped some hints, and then captured the hero at the end.

I just found the whole thing really unsatisfying, and untrue to the character of the Joker.

I don't really have any issue with the gruesomeness, except that the explanation of why the Joker cut off his face didn't make any sense, and was obviously a poorly executed attempt to try to connect the dots between the Joker's return, and losing his face in Detective Comics #1 - which, I suspect, was an editorial edict.