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>>150493545Why would an ulra conservative islamist country make a lunatic serial killer its ambassador? I'm pretty sure they'd just execute him.
>>150493584As a fuck you to the UN>we put a clown in our place to show how much we value your council
>>150493584he told them a funny joke.
I wanna read this
https://youtu.be/CQ0ftoiIQxU?si=xQrj-hNONvHw4S6k
>>150493545Thr uncropped pic is even funnier
>>150493606That would just make them look like a joke, though.
>>150493630I like to think the "does he recongnize me" is actually both Joker and Bruce's thought at the same time
>>150493545I remember reading this after getting into Batman lore through the Arkham games, and I honestly couldn’t believe what the fuck I had just read.
>this and Killing Joke came out mere months apartWhen did the industry drop the flat tones for standard comics and decide they should be ultradetailed like prestige books?
>>150493632Court entertainers were sent to relay and bring messages back to their king in ages past as they were the least likely to be killed for it. Theres a cultural precedent
>>150493652>decide they should be ultradetailed like prestige books?Well for one, the comic didn't look like the page you posted.
>>150493652The killing joke was flat. You are just used to the modern recoloured editions.
>>150493663>>150493697Damn, I actually thought something was off reading the deluxe and the coaster ride looked less impactful than I remembered.
>>150493652>>150493697>>150493704Can't believe Brian Bolland did the digital recolour himself, it looks like such shit side by side
>>150493704You got taken for a ride
>>150493712It'd be one thing if the garish colors were kept for the carnival scenes, goddamn.
>>150493712it looks nicer in hand but yeah the colors are just worse, I would go for the absolute version but man that just feels so overpriced in my local euro country>>150493651comics were and are still very silly and it's great
>>150493712>Remove every bright color>Make everything dull and flatI fucking despise digital recolors
>>150493545>>150493630>mfw I killed your son
>>150493957I can admit some books can look fine, even benefit from the recolor. But in this case, the Killing Joke actually loses part of its charm due to it
>>150493652>>150493545You mention the killing joke and bring up art yet the killing joke basically sent joker down the "im da joker baby" arc where hes just an edgy serial killer and not a clown prince of crime
>>150493632I would think hiring a guy named "The Joker" would make one aware of that risk, yes.
>>150493704It's probably one of the most infamous recolors ever. >>150493712Bolland heard someone describe it as "garish" in a comic shop back in the 80's and seethed over it until DC let him recolor it.
>>150493632They were already a joke
>>150493712I've always liked the original colors, if not for the simple fact that they make the comic feel like a Dario Argento movie or some other giallo film. It still does even with the new colors, I'll admit, but I'm also just kind of biased.
>>150493630>Three Jokers reveals that he's known Bruce Wayne is Batman pretty much from like day two of thier rivalry >he simply doesn't care, he just wants to keep thier little game of death going because it's fun for himSay what you will about that comic, that was one of the better additons to the lore it made imho
>>150493584>Why would an ulra conservative islamist country make a lunatic serial killer its ambassador?
>>150493584If I was going to do a retcon of this I’d reveal that Iran has a “superhero” prepped to stop the Joker. Except the Joker already killed him and reveals the whole scheme before shooting the Ugandan Ambassador for being a “a dirty cannabilistic monkey”. And them he just starts gunning diplomats down while reading out the most awful secret documents they had with them.
>>150495960It's in character, that's for sure. Not a bad plot, really. I'd read it.
>>150495811If that's how low the bar is for you, then I politely implore you to reconsider your evaluation of good taste and how easily you are satisfied.
>>150496044>he proclaimed, loudly, from his pulpit carved from actual, literal shitSwing and a miss, anon
>>150493584Because the writers had an axe to grind at the time.
>>150493584Cuz it's funny
>>1504958113 Jokers also revealed that Batman also knows since day 2 who the Joker is... which makes him look ineffective at bestAnd the fact that Joker knows had been done before, even on that detail Johns is an unoriginal hack that rummages Alan Moore's trash bin for his discarded ideas.
>>150493584>ultra conservative islamist>lunatic serial killerThere's a lot of overlap there.
>>150493545I always liked that part of the story-line, really the hate is undeserved. there nothing wrong with it
>>150496220MORE
>>150493584Did you actually fucking READ the god damn story?It's EXPLICITLY STATED AND SHOWN that Iran wanted to massacre EVERYONE at the UN. Joker got picked to be the assassin both because massacres are his stock in trade and because he just murdered Bruce Wayne's adopted son and almost killed a refuge camp full of Africans. So Joker could be extorted to do the Ayahtolla's killing for him. With the Ambassador gig just being the means to get Joker's foot in the door of the UN.But it's all a moot point as Chuck Dixon EXPLICITLY changed the country that hired Joker to kill everyone at the UN to Quarac, a fictional version of Syria introduced in Suicide Squad that Marvel Wolfmam later genocided in the pages of Deathstroke's solo book
>>150493712This reminds we why I never bought the the Absolute Edition of Saga of the Swamp Thing.
>>150495772Nice.
>>150493630>>150493545Why does the bottom of Bruce's tie change color in the 3rd pic?
Which bat man comic is this?
>>150493697>>150493712Wtf I never knew this
>>150500449Death in the family/Batman #429
>>150495811but that's been a thing for how long? 3 decades?
>>150497443>Batman knows what the Joker's actual name is.......ok, and? How does that make him any more effective at stopping him during any given zany comic book plot?
>>150495960Joker would find cannibalism funny, along with all the names African warlord have like General Butt naked
>>150497443>which makes him look ineffective at bestIt's also retarded because it just makes the entire thing with the 3 jokers and the chair fucking pointless. Why even would Batman need to ask "Who is the Joker?" if he already knew? Even if Death Metal didn't happen, this still would have been one of the most pants on head retarded batman stories.
>>150493545dammit bendis
>>150500028That is when he returns to this timeline. The color change shows the loop breaking.
>>150500761>Batman knows what the Joker's actual name isHis name is Jim but most people call him...Jim.
>>150502000It was to test if the Chair was working properly. He asked it a question that only he knew the answer to so as to see if it's god-tier levels of knowledge were the real deal. The big surprise was the fact there were three different Jokers running around, not that it popped out a name (or three)
>>150496220this could be a banner
>>150493545so here's a though experiment, let's say they had allowed Bruce to kill Joker for murdering Jason during this series of events, and it sticks with Joker staying dead for at minimum at least as long as Jason did IRL(though probably with a couple interim other characters using the mantle in the mean time), how do you see this changing things?
>>150493545What would be the modern-day equivalent of this? Maybe Joker working with the Taliban?Oh, wait, it'd be Russia, wouldn't it?
