#joke man

[cannibalgh0st]

"Doctor, I am the Great Clown Pagliacci!"

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[jokin-around]

Hey! I'm a huge fan of your Joker, and in general, I'm a really big fan of artists reclaiming the Joker as a queer character--in spite of everything DC does with him (lmao). Recently tho I've seen a ton of people saying you shouldn't "want the Joker to be a queer character bc he's an irredeemable person", and like, that's been driving me nuts lol. Wondered if you had any thoughts on the matter?

thank you! it pops up again every time a new wave of 15 year olds learn about comics through A03 fics and wikipedia summaries, I don't worry about it

ofc, there are several facets to this discussion, most of them revolving around media literacy and tokenism and homophobia within comics and such.... but I feel the most pressing one is that morality and sexuality have absolutely nothing to do with each other and although stereotypes exist and ultimately can effect how people are treated in the real world, it is possible to write someone who is both irredeemable and plausibly queer without intertwining the two, just like it's possible for an irredeemable person in the real world to have positive qualities, but still suck overall, to think otherwise is to oversimplify the complexity of being human and queerness as a widespread and common behavior

anyway, all that said, i don't ask for comics cannon joker to be queer because I ultimately don't trust a lot of people writing him and it;s a very easy thing to fumble with a character that messy, my interpretations mostly revolve around reclaiming aspects of queercoding that have been woven into his character over time, and I think it would ultimately be fun to get a cleaner slate one day and see the character return to a state that embraced a sort of jovial chaos with a little anarcho-left commentary sprinkled in

[cornhighlights]

Henry what is the gayest thing Joey has ever done? 😂

[jokin-around]

If you could, how would you imagine joker as a good guy?

well canonically he has The Jokester from earth-3 who's basically the same but with a swapped color palette

but for my own universe I have this very old design I never did anything with, it's based of a movie version of the same character (more or less) called The Jester

I would really love to do more with it eventually

I imagine him being very anti authority, busting the kings balls with passive aggressive jesting before clocking him on the head and such

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the joker is a beautiful woman || from Catwoman: Knight Terrors #2

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Opinion on the Joker from Death of the family? 😶 Its my fave 😌

oooh hoo hoo, I could do a whole essay on Snyder and Capullos take on the joker, I have to get to work in an hour or two but I'll leave you with this before I get back to you: it is possibly the only modern version of the character to have anything of value to say about the violence he inflicts onto others, not to say that version doesn't lean naturally into that kind of thing, but you can feel the wrongness, you can feel him trying too hard, trying to turn the dial all the way up and losing a sense of himself and his goals as a character / person in the process, anyway tho....

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something something me when i'm normal

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If we’re going for underrated Jokers, can’t forget The Batman’s Kevin Michael Richardson’s Joker. Aside from the phenomenal voice the idea of having a joker who utilizes more gymnastic and hand to hand fighting styles rather than relying more so on henchmen and gadgets was such a nice breath of fresh air

yeah, he's awesome, also really love it when the joker can actually kick somebody's ass I think they should do that more often