Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez taking over Batman after issue 125

[Last Son of Krypton]

New weekly story ‘The Joker Year One’ coming to ‘Batman’ in February 2024: https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/16/th...man-dc-comics/

[DrewHLMW]

so is joker year one the main story or the back up? if its the main story then thats 3 issues I can skip.
$5 for a weekly joker book aint happening DC.

[Frontier]

New weekly story ‘The Joker Year One’ coming to ‘Batman’ in February 2024: https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/16/th...man-dc-comics/

They're really dragging this out.

"Did you ever wonder what happened between Joker falling into a vat of chemicals and Batman: The Man Who Laughs?" - said no one ever.

[Last Son of Krypton]

so is joker year one the main story or the back up? if its the main story then thats 3 issues I can skip.
$5 for a weekly joker book aint happening DC.

Main story.

[DrewHLMW]

Main story.

that's disappointing but oh well, that's $15 I can save now

[Laser_Man]

New weekly story ‘The Joker Year One’ coming to ‘Batman’ in February 2024: https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/16/th...man-dc-comics/

Oh my god. DC, please stop it. We don't need 50 different mediocre stories featuring Joker every year.

The worst thing is its not even the goofy, funny Joker with wacky gadgets and deathtraps. Its just the generic societyman Joker who simply shoots anyone in sight and then rants about chaos or some other pretentious shit.

[9AlphaOmega1]

That is why I roll my eyes every time they do a Joke story because he is not really scarey anymore, Joker was dangerous and scary because he is an unknown. I'll be excited if it was the condiment king or the calendar man.

[MajorHoy]

That is why I roll my eyes every time they do a Joke story because he is not really scarey anymore, Joker was dangerous and scary because he is an unknown. I'll be excited if it was the condiment king or the calendar man.

Calendar Man was badly misused at the start of Rebirth . . .

[Dark_Tzitzimine]

Zdarsky really doing a speedrun to take the title of Racoon from Johns, can't he write anything original?

[thwhtGuardian]

Zdarsky really doing a speedrun to take the title of Racoon from Johns, can't he write anything original?

What does "Racoon" mean?

[Dark_Tzitzimine]

What does "Racoon" mean?

It's a reference to something Moore said in an interview shortly after Blackest Night got published

I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers [Blackest Night] in Green Lantern based on a couple of eight-page stories that I did 25 or 30 years ago. I would have thought that would seem kind of desperate and humiliating, When I have said in interviews that it doesn't look like the American comic book industry has had an idea of its own in the past 20 or 30 years, I was just being mean. I didn't expect the companies concerned to more or less say, "Yeah, he's right. Let's see if we can find another one of his stories from 30 years ago to turn into some spectacular saga." It's tragic. The comics that I read as a kid that inspired me were full of ideas. They didn't need some upstart from England to come over there and tell them how to do comics. They'd got plenty of ideas of their own. But these days, I increasingly get a sense of the comics industry going through my trashcan like raccoons in the dead of the night.

The original interview is gone but here is an article about it
https://comicsalliance.com/alan-moor...edium=referral

[PurpleGlovez]

They're really dragging this out.

"Did you ever wonder what happened between Joker falling into a vat of chemicals and Batman: The Man Who Laughs?" - said no one ever.

Tom King just finished a new version of Batman and Joker's first encounter in Brave and the Bold. I wonder how this will sync up (or not) with that story.

[Frontier]

Tom King just finished a new version of Batman and Joker's first encounter in Brave and the Bold. I wonder how this will sync up (or not) with that story.

I'm sure we'll get another one by the next writer!

Why they're already redoing Poison Ivy's origin for the umpteenth time in February!

[Vordan]

I'm sure we'll get another one by the next writer!

Why they're already redoing Poison Ivy's origin for the umpteenth time in February!

Gotta get those origin stories in trade for when The Batman II arrives in 2025.

[Laser_Man]

I'm sure we'll get another one by the next writer!

Why they're already redoing Poison Ivy's origin for the umpteenth time in February!

Speaks about the stagnancy and repetitiveness of superhero comics that they are still doing origin stories of mainstream villains 60 years after they appeared.

Not only are there no new villains but also no new stories involving old villains.