Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #2

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“I originally wanted to do a Joker book for the YA line. They explained to me that they weren’t doing villains, but they still said they’d like to hear the pitch. I had worked on an X-Files book, and my friend, Dr. Ed Kurz, was one of my consultants. He’s a real forensic psychiatrist profiler. I’ve always been interested in possibly writing an adult serial killer suspense novel, and Ed and I were talking about how there are psychopaths that never kill anyone. How does a boy or a girl who’s a regular kid end up becoming Ted Bundy? I was really interested in telling that kind of a story about the Joker. But the more I dug into the story, and the more that Ed consulted on it with me, it became clear that it was not going to be appropriate for YA. I really had to go dark with it. I wanted it to be true.” — Kami Garcia 

Warning for child abuse 

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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

A Happy Chinese Lunar New Year to all, welcome to the Year of the Rat.

To those in areas of the world at risk from the new corona-virus, stay safe and stay well.

Holocaust Memorial Day was yesterday, and celebrated the 75 anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Russian Army. Over 150 still living survivors met together and, with a dignity that never fails to inspire awe, spoke of their experiences in a world with a rising tide of anti-Semitism. (with thanks to leahandillyana for that link)

Well, this will be the last Off-Topic Tuesday I will post before the UK offficially leaves the EU on Friday, a fact that depresses, angers and disgusts me in equal measure.

And we're already heading into our firstlikely trade dispute with our bestest friends ever, the USA, over the use of Huawei technology. Whatever decision is made, SOMEONE is going to be pissed off.

And the Trump Impeachment trial might take another twist if John Bolton is called as a witness, but as with many things invovled in this, who can tell anymore?

Sports fans around the world mourned the loss of basketball legend, Kobe Bryant, though mentions of the controversy surrounding a sexual assault claim made back in 2003 have caused some backlash.

An unexpected argument has broken out in Nepal, due to how the Chinese Government has chosen to depict the Yeti in an advertising campaign.

Mew reports suggest that Paramount and Hasbro are considering two new Transformers movies, one would be Beast Wars (If they can make that work then consider me intrigued, especially as it would mean no humans) and the other would be another movie set in the universe as Bumblebee, though not necessarily a direct sequel,

"Star Trek: Picard" debuted on Amazon Prime and set up some fascinating plotlines from the get go, the collapse of the Romulan Empire following a super-nova for one, and a major plotpoint basically taken from Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica (new version) about synthetic lifeforms and how they possibly link to Data. Sir Patrick Stewart is a fine form as an elderly Picard.

And saving the best for last, Doctor Who delivered an absolute hum-dinger of an episode with more twists and turns than a snake with convulsions... In case people haven't seen it and haven't yet been spoiled by the resulting social media furore, I'll post my opinions in a response to this thread rather than here as I'd hate to spoil anything for someone casually scrolling down.

Tales from the Dark Multiverse: The Death of Superman #1

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Spider-Man/Fantastic Four #2 was a story in the '80s.

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(#1'd been a story in the '60s.)

It concerned the symbiote Spidey'd picked up on Battleworld.

The alien costume, kept in the Baxter Building after Peter'd learned something of its nature, was freed from its containment by a strange drone.

The symbiote left, seeking its jailer - Reed Richards, out with his son and wife.

It wanted Franklin. Sue left to take him to safety, leaving Reed to contend with the symbiote.

The symbiote took Reed. The resulting merger sensed Spidey nearby, and went for him.

It came to Pete while he was thinking about the goings-on of his life.

" Oh, this is all I need.. the symbiote got away from.. "

( Realization hit. )