Or if we want to get technical, roped them into working for Darkseid. (And I only know this thanks to MeTV Toons showing that specific episode a while back!)
How does Darkseid being in the same room as the Joker work, anyway? You'd think a nigh-powerful man-sized mountain of evil like Darkseid would just smack Joker around. (Or even fry him with the Omega Beams.)
Super Friends Darkseid was an Adaptational Wimp who simped for Wonder Woman.
Please remember that, ultimately, fictional works of entertainment are just that....but....Joker died in the original Dark Knight Returns, didn't he?
It was an entire thing. He broke his own neck.
One Strip! One Strip!Found an old comic
that contains what I think is the first instance of Pietà Plagiarism involving an apparently dead Robin.
Scott Snyder did a really cool interview about Absolute Batman. He gave some light spoilers about what will happen in the future and discussed some bits of What Could Have Been.
I recommend watching the vid for yourself, but for some stuff I found interesting.
- Initially, he was just gonna have the gang(Harvey, Oz, Ed, Waylon, Selina) be the villains from the start. But during the writing process he really liked the friendship they had and the history they had. So he decided to hold out on that.
- He discussed the whole Swapped Roles dynamic with Joker and Batman. He said how the way he imagines Joker is that he's like the actual Joker card. Something that when pulled will be anything that opposes the other card. Joker, whether consciously or not, is essentially the ultimate challenge for Batman. Whatever Bruce is, Joker will be the thing that can challenge him. Sense Bruce here is the chaos, the underdog, Joker is the system. He did also say that Joker won't be like, a satire of any specific billionaire. He won't be like Elon Musk or whatever. He will just be based on the whole thing with people in power being able to do things without consequence or care for others.
- When details on Ultimate Spiderman was coming out, with Uncle Ben being alive, he was reconsidering the choice to have Martha survive. But he decided to keep it sense he likes how Bruce and Martha's relationship is in the series.
Those are just some details, but I thought they were interesting.
Bow to the PrototypeDid he say why he picked Black Mask for initial Big Bad. Not complaining as even from issue 1 guy has been scary af.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Plugging in a work page I just made for this old, fairly obscure miniseries, Batman: Jazz, who I swear nobody outside of watchers of Atop the Fourth Wall would know even exists.
It's a weird one.
It's also, just like, not very good lol
Some things of interest:
- It was written by Gerard Jones, the guy who would write Batman: Fortunate Son a few years later (and much later would be sentenced to prison for CP-related stuff, so there's that).
- It's more or less the same story as Fortunate Son of Bats being a supporting character to the story of a kinda-real/kinda-fictional musician, but instead of a weird Kurt Cobain expy in Fortunate Son, it's a fictionalized counterpart to Charlie Parker (one who hypothetically faked his tragic early death in 1955).
- Honestly, it's more competently-written than Fortunate Son — the not-Bird Parker is fairly likeable, it doesn't have any of the weird "rock music is evil" proselytizing, actually seeming like it was written as a respectful tribute towards jazz music.
- But like, this is barely a Batman comic. Batman fights off three weird musician-themed villains who are basically glorified assassins targeting this one old saxophone player — it feels like they exist just to justify this being a superhero story, even though they still feel really out of place.
Anyone have any thoughts on this series? Kinda shot in the dark just because it is so rare, but I'm curious lol
Thanks for playing King's Quest V!That's anything but fortunate, it seems.
Fortunate Son is bad, right? That's kinda the impression I got.
Because if not, I just wasted a good pun.
One Strip! One Strip!He also wrote the original English scripts for Viz's initial publication of Rumiko Takahashi's works—Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2 and so forth.
Not that that has anything to do with what he's best known for now.
But no, Fortunate Son is not particularly good. The art's okay, but the story doesn't convey even what little punch it might have if you didn't grow up being told that Rock'n Roll is evil, or were otherwise heavily repressed in regards to popular culture. I mean, if you want to read a good Batman story that intersects with Rock 'n Roll, look up "Dead...Until Proven Alive" by Frank Robbins and Irv Novick from Batman # 222.
Edited by Robbery on Oct 21st 2024 at 2:13:34 AM
Over in Detective this week, Taylor begins his run by introducing Joe Chill's daughter Scarlett. Thomas Wayne treated both her mother, Evelyn, and Chill after an accident, but Evelyn begs Thomas to fake her child's death after the accident triggers an early labour, as Chill is abusive to her. Martha and Thomas discuss it and agree. Scarlett grew up in foster care at one of the Wayne orphanages and reunites with Bruce as a grown up
Edited by Zarius on Oct 22nd 2024 at 3:41:44 AM


It probably won't happen, but it would be funny if Joker 2's underperformance goads DC to dial back on having the Clown Prince of Crime or at least not have with so much BS moral philosophy.