Geoff Johns Reveals New Details About 'The Three Jokers'
By Nicole Drum - October 7, 2018
Much is still a mystery about the upcoming Batman: Three Jokers headed to DC's Black Label imprint, but Geoff Johns revealed a few more details about the project at New York Comic Con.
During his spotlight panel, Johns explained that while the mystery around it is probably the coolest thing right now, he and artist Jason Fabok simply want to tell the best Batman story and Joker story they can.
"The coolest thing about this story is no one knows anything about it," Johns said. "It's a pretty mature take. I've never gotten to write a Batman and Joker story, and Jay's never gotten to draw one. We wanted to tell the best batman story, the best Joker story possible."
Batman: Three Jokers will focus primarily on three characters, Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon, and Jason Todd. The trio are arguably the characters in DC that the Clown Prince of Crime has hurt the most -- Jason's death in "A Death in the Family", Barbara's paralysis in Batman: The Killing Joke, and well, those events and so much more for Bruce. In addition to the story's central characters, Johns and Fabok also revealed the three eras of the Joker they plan to use in the story: the first appearance Joker from 1940, the classic Silver Age version, and a Joker inspired by Brian Bolland's Killing Joke villain. When it comes to creating the art for those three takes on Joker, Fabok said he is proud to be involved and that there is "magic to this story."