#its batman

[short-wooloo]

It's still a little early to tell, as F4 has only been out for a week, but if Superman's box office holds and grows, this will be the first time since 2008 that a DC film out-earned every marvel film released in the year

[nochanceforabsolution]

are we allowed to talk about Daredevil (2003) because I'm like an hour in and this movie is a little silly like

come on now

[captainlordauditor]

Hello. I guess you wanted me to send that ask about Three Jokers, because you disagree. Do you still want me to?

Maybe I’m being unfair, because Doomsday Clock was offensive shameful turd and John’s is a big asshole in real life-but while I know the book pretends to be about healing from trauma, it’s hard for to me not see it as ultimately another Johnsian tantrum about how his preffered version of the characteris the onyl one that counts.

Sorry for taking so long to answer this

So I haven’t read Doomsday Clock - I’m pretty sure the only thing I’ve read by Johns is 3 Jokers, actually. But.....it absolutely made sense to me that the Killing Joke was so heavily referenced in the final section. Of course it was the Killing Joke. 

It was always going to be the Killing Joke. That’s the thing, right? The entirety of modern Batman continuity is based around the Killing Joke or Death In the Family.

“But Miles,” you say, “3 Jokers isn’t main continuity, it’s black label!”

And you’re right - but it’s still modern Batman. It’s still pulling its cues and its bases from modern age Batman, and therefore from Killing Joke. This was set up from the get-go. Right after we meet 3 Joker’s Babs, we see her scar and a flashback to Killing Joke:

In fact, I’d argue that it was set up earlier - I’d argue that this was set up from the moment we found out that Jason was in it as Red Hood. Because Red Hood, as a concept, as a callsign, is something that is a direct reference to the Killing Joke. 

The name Red Hood was first used by the Joker in a one off comic (Detective Comics #158) in the 1950s, with a similar backstory to his backstory in the Killing Joke - however, in the 1950s comic, Joker comes up with the name himself and there’s only one crime committed before he falls into the vat of chemicals. 

Every other instance of the name is referencing Killing Joke. Every. Single. One. Under the Hood references it a couple times, most explicitly at the end of Batman Annual #25:

(Note the use of “Crime spree” in contrast to the 1951′s Red Hood’s one off robbery)

Red Hood’s Lost Days implies in its final issue that Jason specifically chooses the name Red Hood as a means of punishing Bruce. Which is only a choice that makes sense if he’s doing so by reminding Bruce of the events in Killing Joke - Bruce has no stakes in the name Red Hood in the 1950s version, because it’s simply a name Joker used that somebody else, whom Bruce arrested, later borrowed.

Now there are versions that separate Red Hood and the Joker. The Gotham tv show, where the red hood is a cursed object/name worn by bank robbers comes to mind. But by and large, Red Hood is a name that comes from the Joker and the Killing Joke. 

The Killing Joke isn’t the only version of the Joker that matters out of nepotism, or because we love the classics, or because any one writer prefers it. The Killing Joke is the version of the Joker that matters because it’s the version that left a lasting impact on the rest of canon.

[ultracoldheartbouquet]

So I watched V for Vendetta the first time and that movie...like wow...that shit was fucked up actually lol.

[youbeprofen]

My sketchbook but it’s just the same reoccurring character on every page

[chngmins]

me, watching any kind of batman media: WHO is equipping these rogues, like do they have some kind of villain atelier in gotham or what, AND WHO is funding their R&D departments for their lil gadgets and where is penguin even keeping the penguins like what, how is he making them obey him 🤔

[garlic-sauc3]

got a new mask for the beginning of school 💪💪💪