The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular

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Unless there are any requests this is the last story I'll be posting from this comic.

[lego_joker]

Quick question: did you post these in order of how much you personally liked them?

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Hard for me to say. For example the Punchline story wasn’t my favorite but I posted that earlier because of how it was tying in with the current comics. But I guess for some of the others I posted in an order of what I wanted to post myself just in case I wasn’t able to for the other ones. So maybe a little bit of yes and no?

I don’t know if there was one I really loved though just some I liked more than others. Tom Taylor’s was probably the biggest surprise because of how much he hates the Joker; I was expecting some kind of piss take so I was happy he did what he did. Snyder’s was probably the only one I disliked. I’ve never liked depictions of the Joker as being some purely evil almost supernatural bogeyman. I’d rather see him as being at the end of the day a damaged human being like Moore wrote him.

[kurenai_tenka]

' Tom Taylor’s was probably the biggest surprise because of how much he hates the Joker'

He does? His was my favourite too.

[cyberghostface]

Yeah. He’s the type who thinks Harley is great and the Joker sucks, there were numerous points in Injustice where he would shit on the Joker (like one point where he begged Batman to save him from Harley beating him up).

https://www.reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments/d01yda/comment/ez5l22q

[kurenai_tenka]

Thanks! That was an interesting read.

I haven't read Injustice, but that sounds cringey, to be honest. I thought Joker died at the start via Superman?

[cyberghostface]

Not entirely sure, I think parallel worlds were involved with the later Injustice comics and Harley ran into 'our' Joker or another version. I've only seen select pages on Tumblr.

In full disclosure I'm not sure if Tom Taylor wrote it now as searching for it it appears there have been other writers on the Injustice comics but he's done similar things in the past.

[kurenai_tenka]

Yeah, I think Injustice 2 has varying writers. Still, whoever wrote it, it sounds more like a wish fulfilment scene more than anything else.