The Joker Appreciation Thread

[Vil_Dee]

[Alan2099]

You can post all the scary, Joker in the dark or covered in blood pictures you want.

This right here is still the most disturbing Joker picture I've seen.



It does it without the dramatic lighting, blood, or any of that. It's just Joker in his bright colors with an oversized prop doing something he thought was fun.

And the fact that he's having a good time and doing something so seemingly ridiculous is what makes it so disturbing.

[tabo61]

Yeah, Heath was the best one. Although I wish he didn't look like a deranged hobo. Still it's better than Joker killing people to Prince music. Or the horror of Joker with a mustache.

That scene in Burton's movie when he and his thugs were vandalizing the museum while listeing to Prince. Was that scene based on some event in the comics?

[Alan2099]

What's wrong with Prince?

[Enigmatic Undead]

What's wrong with Prince?

Absolutely nothing!



Prince did the entire Batman soundtrack after all.

[Vil_Dee]

That scene in Burton's movie when he and his thugs were vandalizing the museum while listening to Prince. Was that scene based on some event in the comics?

Well there was the 66 Batman episode "Pop Goes the Joker"



And "Symbols" in Detective Comics



Neither was to Prince music though. He prefers show tunes.





This site tells you about all the scenes in the 89 Batman movie that was inspired by the comics

http://gothamalleys.blogspot.co.uk/2...es-part-i.html

[Beantownbrown]

[K. Jones]

Ha-Hacienda. It's gold! God I love the Bronze Age.

Joker's my Number One Guy. Not my favorite character but the easiest to kind of geek over, and kind of geek-bond about. I've always loved how seriously fans, especially casual fans, regard him - not being particularly aware of the trope of the Unreliable Narrator. He's not a force of chaos. He's not irreparably insane. He's got a motive. But good luck discerning it from the chaos he surrounds himself with!

The ultra-modern baptism. He's a character that really says a lot about modern society, and it's no wonder writers keep wanting to use him as a cipher for their postmodern philosophies - but really Joker's just a dash of Dada and a heavy dose of Romanticism - that is, the negative side of Romanticism as applied to "urban sprawl" and industrialization, whereas Batman's the whole Gothic Romance revival side of the coin.

I used to draw Joker all the time. One time I wooed a girlfriend by requesting she paint me a painting of Joker.

My first experience was Cesar Romero during afternoon re-runs. Batman '66 came on like shortly after Ninja Turtles in the 80s. My dad had fond memories, so like most of the things I'm geek-obsessed with, it was something he liked. Romero dressed in the pierrot costume is the root cause of my later-in-life coulrophobia; highly impressive from a fictional character.

I thought Batman '89 was as cool as cool got when I was a kid, but every year post-puberty that I saw it yielded diminishing returns. It's a trite little affair tailor made to sell action figures and loaded with Tim Burton's stunted and facile -isms. Yet it's still incredibly historic as a piece of film - and god do I remember that ad campaign.

I turned 8 in 1993, so I literally grew up with afterschool scholastic lessons in storytelling Batman: The Animated Series. I daydream about being a voice actor because of what Hamill and the other perfect voice-cast were able to do.

I adore the Sprang style Joker of Batman: The Brave and The Bold.

There's scads of writers' Jokers in the comics that I really like, and as far art examples, I'll get to them eventually as this thread grows and I do some Googling, but yeah, Jock is a real standout. He even made Face/Off Joker bearable in the backups. Frazer Irving is another fine example, as modern Jokerers go.

I think what appealed to me, always, for Joker (and what clearly isn't the main appeal for a lot of the guys writing him these days) is the same thing that appeals to me in less disfigured characters - that very urban, street smart, con man vibe. The well dressed gentleman of crime (with a twist). I mean everything about him feels street performance; card tricks, hustling, a suit-jacket with magician-esque gags stitched into it. His constant escapes from death speak of Harry Houdini, his card tricks and fixation speak of historic and fictional con-men - the Ocean's 11, Catch Me If You Can, White Collar vibe. Casinos and diamond heists, but with the catch of being the Wild Card.

It's never the slightly supernatural or meta nature of him that makes me love him - it's the street level. How he feels more like someone born and raised in Old Town Gotham than Bruce could ever be. Always playing the Game, bucking the system, his heroes the notorious American Outlaws - looking for infamy for himself but never quite getting it - until the day Batman Made Him Famous.

I spent a lot of time in years past fantasy casting, and I remember the lead-up to The Dark Knight was pretty extensive. I still can't believe they didn't cast Paul Bettany in the role. I mean he's even got the comic accurate height!

[mr_crisp]

You can post all the scary, Joker in the dark or covered in blood pictures you want.

This right here is still the most disturbing Joker picture I've seen.



It does it without the dramatic lighting, blood, or any of that. It's just Joker in his bright colors with an oversized prop doing something he thought was fun.

And the fact that he's having a good time and doing something so seemingly ridiculous is what makes it so disturbing.

I miss the Joker being drawn that way. He looks a lot scarier like that.

[Hilden B. Lade]

[Vil_Dee]

I don't know, these are pretty scary and I don't miss Joker's bowling pin shaped head either.












There is some really disturbing fanart out there. . .

[Alan2099]

There is some really disturbing fanart out there. . .

To me, those all felt like they're trying too hard to be scary.

[Master Planner]

Silver age villainy was the most disturb villainy.Love that Joker!

[Vil_Dee]

Silver age villainy was the most disturb villainy.Love that Joker!

Nah, he still does stuff like that.

[Master Planner]

Nah, he still does stuff like that.

Well,that scene was a tribute to that silver age bizzare plot.In another issue of the same series,Joker is torturing a short,bald guy who looks quite similar with Danny DeVito,sort of a nod for Batman Returns.