Ax-Crazy: Imagine all the murderous insanity that powered the incarnations of The Joker that Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Mark Hamill played.When Jonny tries to give him orders, Croc quickly puts Jonny in his place by picking him up singlehandedly and then hanging him from a hook. Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Killer Croc is the leader of his gang due to his strength and intimidation.Art Shift: Pages change from a gorgeous painted look (usually for the larger panels) to a lower-quality colouring style continuously.The response is made more powerful because this is Batman's only line in the whole story. Batman responds, 'To mock you.' Joker immediately flips out. After going on about that, Joker asks why Batman leaves his chin uncovered, allowing a glimpse at the man beneath the suit and thus showing that despite the appearance, Batman isn't a monster.

During this, he engages in a 'The Reason You Suck' Speech where he attempts to deconstruct Batman dressing up like a monster and inspiring fear.

Armor-Piercing Response: At the climax of the story, Joker is engaged in the usual brawl with Batman.

His condition, epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, is also depicted more accurately as ichthyosis vulgaris.

Adaptational Attractiveness: Killer Croc appears as a strong black man, not the usual reptilian man that's often shown in the comics.

Croc also lets out a laugh when Joker makes a jab at him for his looks.Joker suggesting that Killer Croc give him a blowjob makes Croc and the other gangsters laugh.See here for the 2019 film.īatman: Damned is a Stealth Sequel to this story. If you wanted the page for the character, that's here. The original title of the comic was even Joker: The Dark Knight (in the same vein as the partnership's previous graphic novel Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, which is a fun companion to this work) but that had to be scrapped for obvious reasons. There's a lot of visual similarities between this version of the Joker and the one presented in The Dark Knight Word of God chalks this down to coincidence. Carnage ensues! Along the way, they bump into the Riddler, Two-Face, the Penguin, Killer Croc, Harley Quinn and the B-man himself. So when (for reasons nobody seems to know) the Joker is released from Arkham Asylum and sets out to reclaim the city for himself, Frost decides he wants in.

The story is done in a Darker and Edgier, Film Noir style and is told by a naive young criminal named Jonny Frost who yearns to be a big man in Gotham.

Joker is a 2008 one-shot graphic novel written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, focusing - just like it says on the tin - on the Joker, everyone's favorite Monster Clown. 'The Joker has been released from Arkham Asylum.'

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