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Post by thewacker on Apr 30, 2009 7:44:14 GMT -5
I just got the Batman R.I.P. graphic novel and started reading it. Right in the beginning Batman is talking to Joker and says something about his death? When did Joker die?
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Post by jlavaia on Apr 30, 2009 9:52:17 GMT -5
Joker never died. he got shot in the face by the first replacement Batman and it "changed him".
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Post by svengali1337 on Apr 30, 2009 15:53:37 GMT -5
^ How so?
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Post by All Star Batman on Apr 30, 2009 17:45:59 GMT -5
It's hard to explain. You'd have to read Batman #663 which is collected in the Batman & Son trade. All I know is that he now has a glasgow smile, slit his tongue to look like a serpent's, and wears a white buther like gown.
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Post by mr. battastic on Apr 30, 2009 20:16:46 GMT -5
yea he even tried to kill Harley to finish his transformation. but the way i understood it hes "transformed" himself a few times from wat i read but i dnt remember reading previous stories where he did that. i might have misunderstood it.
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Post by All Star Batman on Apr 30, 2009 20:41:23 GMT -5
yea he even tried to kill Harley to finish his transformation. but the way i understood it hes "transformed" himself a few times from wat i read but i dnt remember reading previous stories where he did that. i might have misunderstood it. They may have been mental changes, and this one really shows. I think they reference to how Joker's been done over the years. When he first debuted he was a psychotic killer, then to meet CCA regulations he was toned down to a criminal with a prankster/clown motif until Denny O'Neil brought him back to his roots, and then Alan Moore took it up a notch with The Killing Joke. Now Morrison has brought us the new change in the Joker. |
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Post by havedunter74 on May 8, 2009 2:07:32 GMT -5
I prefer the Alan Moore and Denny O'neil versions.
Grant Morisson's version sucks
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Post by mr. battastic on May 12, 2009 19:56:07 GMT -5
me neither, not that into the whole batman r.i.p. arch anyway. just fills like Morrison wanted to turn the comic on its head. but i haven't read the end to final crisis so I'm hoping Bruce will return. or am i talkin out my back side and the killed off batman defiantly?
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Post by All Star Batman on May 12, 2009 20:24:42 GMT -5
me neither, not that into the whole batman r.i.p. arch anyway. just fills like Morrison wanted to turn the comic on its head. but i haven't read the end to final crisis so I'm hoping Bruce will return. or am i talkin out my back side and the killed off batman defiantly? Bruce is not dead, he's MIA. He'll be back. |
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Post by vishman007 on May 12, 2009 20:34:00 GMT -5
Yeah the Joker in Batman RIP is no good. I hope the next writers bring back a more classic joker.
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Post by All Star Batman on May 12, 2009 22:53:37 GMT -5
Yeah the Joker in Batman RIP is no good. I hope the next writers bring back a more classic joker. Morrison seems to be the only guy who does him like it though. Other DC artists I've seen treat him like he always is, like Paul Dini did on Detective. |
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