Detective Comics #5

[superfangirl1]

After his battle with the Dollmaker, Batman is trying to keep peace in an increasingly restless Gotham City. With the flesh from Joker’s face hanging in the Gotham City Police Department, many people believe that Batman has killed the Joker. This causes a lot of anti-Batman and even pro-Joker sentiment.









Meanwhile, news reporter Charlotte Rivers investigating a story on Gotham’s newly opened Iceberg Casino, runs afoul of the club’s villainous owner.

Comments

[mrstatham]

This. Doesn't Charles Manson have an awful lot of fans out there, somehow? People who believe that he's an innocent man, despite the fact I think he's never actually denied his role and his plotting, and has openly declared that 'if he got out, people would *really* start dying' or words to that effect. And people still idolise him. That alone says something.

[golden_orange]

There's not huge protest marches devoted to Charles Manson, though.

[mrstatham]

Well no, it's not a perfect spot on match, but Manson is a good comparison. The man still has people out in the world who are fans and claim he's done nothing wrong. That's what's going on here. You've got people idolising the Joker and claiming he's done nothing wrong.

[golden_orange]

Yeah, Manson has fans, I'm not disputing that, but this is what appears to be a protest movement; that's on a completely different level to someone sending a serial killer love letters.

I can buy that even the Joker would have some fanboys who flock to serial killers. That after everything he's done the Joker would have enough fans to form some kind of Occupy movement which could affect an election (even a local civic one), though, is something that frankly I find utterly ridiculous.