Batman #7 will feature a special gatefold foldout page revealing the definitive origin of The Joker.The new issue follows up after DC's K.O., showing a battered Joker recovering in a mysterious tube.Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez start their next Batman arc, launching the Blood & Money storyline.Forget previous Joker tales—this story tells his origin from the Joker's own perspective for the first time.The upcoming Batman #7 by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez looks to feature The Joker after the events of DC's K.O., and he doesn't look in the best way, injured, being held in some kind of recovery tube. And it seems that this issue features a special gatefold page that folds out of the comic that will detail the definitive history of Joker. Forget Three Jokers, forget The Killing Joke, this is a chance for Fraction and Jiménez to lay it out for good, and from his perspective as well. Or, at least, until the next time they change it… and beginning the new Batman storyline Blood & Money.BATMAN #7(W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Jorge JimenezFRACTION & JIMENEZ KICK OFF THEIR SECOND ART WITH A SHOCKING REINTRODUCTION OF THE JOKER AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE! As Batman is beckoned to Arkham Towers by the mysterious man in Room Ten, nothing will prepare him for who he finds there. Some might call him the Caped Crusader's archnemesis. Others might call him Batman's best friend. Everyone calls him the Joker. $4.99 3/4/2026
I really don't care.
There's been half a dozen definitive origins of the Joker
>>152331839But why?
>>152331839I stopped giving a shit about The Joker years ago. Either come up with somebody new, or put the spotlight on another villain.
Thanks, I hate it.
>>152331839>fuck sales are already down again because fraction is a faggot>ummmm JOKERSHIT
>>152331839>jokershit*yawn*Batman has so many rogues to choose from, but DC always circles back to the clown
>>152331839>Zdarsky’s origin didn’t even make it 2 years
>>152331839Translation; sales have collapsed so badly under Fraction that editorial is forcing him to not only do a Joker story but also make him do another Joker origin story especially after everyone explicitly told Zdarsky they refuse to acknowledge his Joker origin story.
>>152331839agein i feel we have seen this four times in the past 6 years
>>152331839Poor Jimenez man. I’d fucking resign before drawing any more bat slop for these faggy writers.
A new origin for a modern audience: fell into a vat of prison rape
>>152331839>this story tells his origin from the Joker's own perspective for the first time.That's literally every fucking Joker origin. His perspective is the one you DON'T want because he can just change the story on a whim with the only actual "definitive" part being "he fell into a chemical vat because Batman showed up".
>>152332246a lot of them are either reformed, portrayed too sympathetic, totally glossed over, or just too lame-soundingthat + WB still hasn't come back down from the joaquin phoenix high
>>152332710I would think they’d learn their lesson after he wrote joker’s origin being that his alternate dimension self accessed his mind after the chemicals and broke it, causing him to split into 3 separate jokers
>>152332710Objectively not true, and even if it was this issue would have been planned well before any planned pivot they'd have to make
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Joker_OriginsAnother for the wiki page I guess
Oh you mean like The Man Behind the Red Hood, The Killing Joke, Lovers and Madmen, Zero Year, and Joker: Year One?
>>152331839>Forget Three JokersWay ahead of you.
