My concern is if Killing Joke Joker and Death of the Family Joker are the same Joker, then that's the only real Joker. The other two won't be in the same hemisphere of importance.
My concern is if Killing Joke Joker and Death of the Family Joker are the same Joker, then that's the only real Joker. The other two won't be in the same hemisphere of importance.
Jason Fabok has confirmed on Instagram that Killing Joke Joker and Comedian Joker are the same.
Quesstion: "Isn't Hawaiian Joker technically The Killing Joke Joker?"
Jason Fabok: "yes as well as the book 3 regular cover and the comedian, and red hood."
It's the Dynamic Duo! Batman and Robin!... and Red Robin and Red Hood and Nightwing and Batwoman and Batgirl and Orphan and Spoiler and Bluebird and Lark and Gotham Girl and Talon and Batwing and Huntress and Azreal and Flamebird and Batcow?
Since when could just anybody do what we trained to do? It makes it all dumb instead of special. Like it doesn't matter anymore.
-Dick Grayson (Batman Inc.)
So just read the stories you feel "count" then. They're not going anywhere, so why worry about what the comics that don't "count" are doing or who's working on them? There's an audience for both, there's room for both, so why not let good artists work on whichever title they want?
Well, I like for my stories to count, but I also want them to be good. And Fabok is a good creator. Obviously he is wasted on a monthly book, but I think that's more an indictment of how DC is handling their current series than anything else. But of course, he should be able to work on a project he wants to work on.
It's the Dynamic Duo! Batman and Robin!... and Red Robin and Red Hood and Nightwing and Batwoman and Batgirl and Orphan and Spoiler and Bluebird and Lark and Gotham Girl and Talon and Batwing and Huntress and Azreal and Flamebird and Batcow?
Since when could just anybody do what we trained to do? It makes it all dumb instead of special. Like it doesn't matter anymore.
-Dick Grayson (Batman Inc.)
And the stories you don't read and don't "count" shouldn't be good? And why is any artist wasted on a monthly book?
Not to hammer the point, but I think artists should have some leeway to work on the sort of titles that appeal to them when offered, and that both the continuity and out of continuity stuff should hopefully be good. And we're talking Batman here, a lot of it is probably going to be good.
So if it really splits into Golden Age Joker, Silver Age Joker, and Bronze-to-Modern Joker, this whole notion becomes a little skewed for me. It's all in the execution of course! But like, the question of "when did one or the other debut?" arises because you can follow the actual evolution of Joker in chronological order. For instance it was Silver Age Joker, in the original "Red Hood" story, that revealed his secret origin ... how would that be His secret origin and not the Golden Age Joker's?
And what's Batman's actual continuity status regarding Gold and Silver ages, because Earth-2 is a thing to some degree? Obviously I go by the Morrison School of Thought that all of it happened in some form or another to our Prime Batman, so I'm very curious to see how it splits down the middle. It also might be neat if like, Jason getting his final revenge on Modern Joker, killing that guy, means that like Joker going forward might be the Gold or Silver Age guy?
Or are we talking Joker experiencing radical multiversal timeline phasing shenanigans, where his "changes" over the years are explained by his Past Selves phasing back in via some kind of cosmic occasion? Or even just "He Is The Same Guy" but his past selves Memories or Minds phase back into his body, slightly altering his body language, posture and stylistic choices or ways of thinking/criming?
Or does Johns have some other card up his sleeve? That's the question.
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I hope that with this comic they will give a twist to Red Hood, now with the departure of Lobdell they will give him a better writer with better ideas, make the character grow and not only be the target of the scorn of the bats. In the interview, it was said that this will cause changes in the current canons.
I wonder if Geoff John's having Hal contact Bruce as one of his last messages to gush about him was due in part to him writing this series.
I was jst coming here to point this exact thing out. Snyders "idea" for BWL may actually have been inspired by Johns idea for how 3 different people have been Joker. Now we just learn how and when...but i doubt the identity of Original or Current will be made clear, just how they "contracted" being the Joker for 2 and 3.
If you are going to refute, you need to do your own research.