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    Question best of the recent Joker-centered stories?

    2019-2020 have had quite a few stories with the Joker as a central character / presence.

    - Batman White Knight + Curse of the White Knight
    - Joker: Year of the Villain
    - Prelude to the Wedding: Harley Quinn vs. The Joker
    - Joker Killer Smile + The Smile Killer
    - Joker War
    - Three Jokers

    Any others I've forgotten?
    What in your opinions is the best one? why?
    Do you think any of this are destined to become Joker classics?

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    Batman White Knight
    Joker War

    White Knight is a good elseworld. I think Joker War will be a classic because of the new characters from it.
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    I'd say Harleen was the only appearance from him recently where the character has really worked like used to.

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    Batman Damned
    Harley Quinn Joker Criminal Sanity

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    The Joker: Year of the Villain, by John Carpenter, Anthony Burch and Phillip Tan is really good, really not getting enough attention. Best Joker I've read like since Dini's Slayride or a Morrison story (or King's DC Nation short Joker story).

    Batman News.com: "It’s certainly effective – and has an oddly wholesome message hidden underneath the brutality, offering a sort of counterpoint to the movie Joker."

    Geekdad.com: "I did find this one of the more effective Joker stories in recent memories thanks to a neat trick – showing us how terrifying and unpredictable Joker is through the eyes of someone much saner than him . . . This could have been a very depressing story – and maybe would have been if the Joker was portrayed as deadly as he usually is – but there’s a surprisingly more optimistic ending than is normal for these one-shots. "
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timothy Hunter View Post
    Batman Damned
    Harley Quinn Joker Criminal Sanity
    I know Batman Damned is a sequel to the Joker GN, but I don't see that much of a Joker @presence@ in the mini series.. YMMV, of course

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    Quote Originally Posted by JBatmanFan05 View Post
    The Joker: Year of the Villain, by John Carpenter, Anthony Burch and Phillip Tan is really good, really not getting enough attention. Best Joker I've read like since Dini's Slayride or a Morrison story (or King's DC Nation short Joker story).

    Batman News.com: "It’s certainly effective – and has an oddly wholesome message hidden underneath the brutality, offering a sort of counterpoint to the movie Joker."

    Geekdad.com: "I did find this one of the more effective Joker stories in recent memories thanks to a neat trick – showing us how terrifying and unpredictable Joker is through the eyes of someone much saner than him . . . This could have been a very depressing story – and maybe would have been if the Joker was portrayed as deadly as he usually is – but there’s a surprisingly more optimistic ending than is normal for these one-shots. "
    I haven't read that so I might have to check it out.

    For my money, some of the best Batman stories in years have been in Batman: Gotham Nights and that includes the use of the Joker there. Mark Russell's Joker story, "Dragnet" in issue issue #4. Not only is it a great use of Bruce Wayne as an aide to an investigation by Jim Gordon but Joker's turn as a "fixer" for the underworld a fun role for him.

    And while I wouldn't necessarily want the characterization of Batman in Russell's "Balyushka!"(B:GN #6) to necessarily be the standard the Joker's plan and the mayhem he unleashed on Gotham through viral videos was fantastic.

    The Joker as a mass murderer has zero interest to me, but as an unpredictable criminal with colorful plots yet deadly plots? Sign me up.

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