Batman #32 is much more than just Selina Kyle's answer to Bruce Wayne's marriage proposal. The story behind it reveals a pivotal moment in Bruce's past, one that comes to define not just his role as Batman, but how Bruce sees himself as Gotham's Dark Knight.
One of the most adored Batman adaptations in the world, Batman: The Animated Series, turns 25 today -- but while fans will remember the iconic work of Kevin Conroy as the Dark Knight and Mark Hamill as the Joker, Hamill in particular almost never had the chance to become the animated clown prince of crime: Tim Curry was the first person cast for the role.
I'm still not entirely sure how DC's new Dark Nights: Metal is going to incorporate that terrifying squad of evil, alternate universe Batpeople, but that doesn't matter right now. Folks, we need to have a talk about the Batman Who Laughs and his creepy-arse Robins and how I'm never sleeping again.
In the nearly 80 years that he's spent terrorising Gotham City, he's gone by many different names. John Doe. Jackanapes. The Clown Prince of Crime. Puddin'. The Joker's true identity is the card he's always played closest to his chest, but it's about to be revealed in DC's upcoming Batman: White Knight.
When longtime DC comics artist and writer Sean Murphy announced that he would be penning and illustrating a new eight-issue Batman series, he was vague on specifics about the story he had in mind, but described it as being his answer to Frank Miller's The Dark Knight. Turns out, he wasn't kidding.
Much of Injustice 2's charm stems from how it gives players the ability to make their favourite DC comic book characters beat the crap out of each other. Fighting aside, though, the game also features some pretty solid character development for one of DC's most iconic antiheroes, Harley Quinn.
Tom King has big plans for the next few months of Batman. And the ending is a big old fight between the Joker and the Riddler over who should have the right to kill Batman. It's like Civil War, but with bad guys and hopefully no character assassination.
Comic artist Mark Simpson, known by his pen name, Jock, recently shared the results of a Google search to check how his famous Joker print was being used. Turns out it had been made available for any woman to lovingly adorn her private parts in bats and teeth.
When writer Matt Oswalt pointed out that president-elect Donald Trump's recent New Year's Eve tweet sounded like something the Joker would say, the Joker rose to the occasion.
This new action figure by Square-Enix is Joker meets Batman by the way of Kefka from Final Fantasy VI. It's kind of amazing.
They say given enough time and resources, Batman can defeat anybody. But let's be clear -- Batman doesn't always have the time to plan or the resources he needs, and thus Batman is hardly undefeated in his crime-fighting career. Here are 15 different DC characters, heroes and villains, who have handed the Dark Knight a few checks in his loss column.
We all can't be as lucky as Jim Lee, apparently -- who, aside from being a famous and extremely talented comics artist, also got Mark Hamill to do his finest Joker bit for Lee's voicemail inbox. It's amazing.
DC's Rebirth is on the way, and it's not just the logo that's getting a makeover. Plenty of characters will be getting a costume refresh in DC's roster shake-up as well. It seems like the clown prince of crime might be one of them, judging by this gorgeous variant cover by Rafael Albuquerque.
There's nothing worse than running into an old ex. Especially when that ex is Batman's homicidal archenemy.
The newest Clown Prince of Crime in Batman's hometown isn't insane. He didn't fall into a vat of chemicals. Honestly, he's just kind of a dick. That's what's scariest about him.
Actually two Jokers and one Harley Quinn, but eh, details.
Joker, as a Chaos Wyrm, and Batman as... well as The Dark Knight in DeviantART artist sandara's surreal piece. That's breathtaking! Like one of the bosses from Dark Souls, except it looks more evil.
Bane? Forget that musclehead. Batman's greatest enemy has always been the Joker. And in armour like this, it's possible that he wouldn't get sent back to Arkham like he always does.
I don't know what's worse. Having this Sideshow Collectibles Sixth-Scale Joker figure standing on my desk, or knowing he's on a shelf or in a closet in his box, biding his time, chuckling under his breath.
