In the summer of 1988, thousands of people across the US voted to decide whether Jason Todd, the second Robin, would live or die in an upcoming issue of Batman. Some 5271 people wanted Jason to survive the Joker’s brutal assault and torture; 5343 did not. You do the maths.
Though Batman: White Knight is technically an Elseworlds story about a rehabilitated Joker seeking to convince Gotham that Batman is the true source of its problems, it’s also a love story. The Joker has had many great loves in his life: Comedy, crime, Batman himself. But he’s never hurt a…