Batman #143

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Comments

[blues32]

I don't think he was the smartest man alive. Maybe not even the smartest man in the room.

[metadronos]

I'm reminded of the only good line in Doomsday Clock, when Luthor tells Ozymandias, "If you're the smartest person in your world, I'd hate to meet the dumbest." (paraphrased from memory)

[tcampbell1000]

Pffft hahaha

[cyberghostface]

Also really happy Zdarsky finally put to bed that convoluted "Three Jokers" thing once and for all.

[aperturedreams]

Did he tho? The previous issue makes a reference to Red Mask creating "triplicates of the Joker", and this guy isn't Red Mask...

[icon_uk]

Geoff Johns still has plans for a sequel to Three Jokers, so I wouldn't be sure about that.

[scorntx]

A sequel to Three Jokers? So... Three Jokers Two?

[icon_uk]

"Six Jokers over Gotham"?

[cyberghostface]

Idk how a sequel would even work given it ended with only one Joker still alive.

[viridian5]

Two Fast, Three Jokers?

[cyberghostface]

The first one was never recognized as canon and whatever Zdarsky is doing here is already rejecting Johns’ take.

[thanekos]

This may be the first time someone's done " you killed me, but I won anyway " with the Joker.

(Sure, it's internal, and he didn't want to die, and it's almost certainly extemporaenous self-consolation - but still.)

[donnblake]

So the Joker's different personalities are, per this explanation, back-up personalities? Something analogous to Zur-En-Arrh?

[cyberghostface]

Yeah it’s the same idea.

[beyondthefringe]

Of all characters, I feel like we didn’t need an explanation for the Joker’s shifting personalities and demeanors. Like, it was just a given.

[mastermahan]

If we have to explain the different Joker takes, I prefer the Grant Morrison explanation that the Joker is just so crazy that he can't even be consistent in how he's crazy. Simple, elegant.

Or just take the Doylist approach and accept that any character who's been written continuously for decades is going to get reinvented. Does Marvel need to explain why Iron Man became so quippy?

[blues32]

So which one is the real one? Does he HAVE a real one or is he nothing but back-up personalities?

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Second page, I was like "Dr. Mindbender created the Joker and Batman?!"

[superfangirl1]

I don’t how to feel about The “three Jokers” are revealed to be three backup personalities the Joker creates using Capito’s training. Mirroring Bruce using that training to create Zur-en-Arrh. But instead are the Clown, the Demon, and Death.

I guess it is a cool concept. Joker reinvents himself in an inane notion that he’s been three entirely separate characters this entire time. So the Joker paralyzed Barbara Gordon (But got better) was the demon joker?