We’re going back to Gotham City – Joker 2 is officially moving forward, with star Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Phillips confirmed to be returning. Phillips shared a photo of the cover of the sequel’s script on Instagram, along with a photo of Phoenix reading the screenplay. Although talk of a …
Read More »The Three Jokers return in Batman #125
DC has released a trailer for writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Jorge Jiménez’s upcoming Batman run, which kicks off in July 5’s Batman #125. That issue launches ‘Failsafe,’ a story that introduces a villain of the same name previously described by Zdarsky as “Batman’s Doomsday,” But the trailer hints at …
Read More »Every on-screen Joker ranked from worst to best
The laugh-filled yin to Batman’s growly yang; the Darth Vader to The Dark Knight’s Luke Skywalker; The Caped Crusader’s Kryptonite. We are, of course, talking about the Joker. With The Batman brooding its way into cinemas and introducing a new Joker into the mix, it seemed right to rank the best …
Read More »Best DC supervillains of all time
DC may have previously dubbed 2019 the ‘Year of the Villain (opens in new tab),’ but 2022 is shaping up to earn the title even more, with a so-called Dark Army of insanely powerful supervillains forming who will apparently kill almost the entire Justice League in Justice League #75, ‘Death …
Read More »Jurassic League – Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, and more are dinosaurs
Once upon a time, Batman was a monster truck. But as it turns out, that’s not the strangest version of the Dark Knight out there, as DC has announced Jurassic League, a new six-issue series that reimagines the entire Justice League, including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman and villains like …
Read More »The Joker is calling it quits on his ongoing comic, but will back for a second “season”
DC’s ongoing Joker comic book series has been one of the publisher’s top ten titles sales-wise since its launch in March 2021. But now the publisher seems to be mixing things up and using the previously-announced departure of series creator-writer James Tynion IV to seemingly change the title’s format. The …
Read More »Joaquin Phoenix isn’t sure if we’re getting a Joker sequel
Joaquin Phoenix has addressed longstanding that a Joker sequel is in development, indicating instead that Clown Prince of Crime’s return isn’t on the cards just yet. Speaking to The Playlist (opens in new tab), Phoenix suggested there’s plenty to mine after Arthur Fleck’s billion-dollar bow back in 2019. He’s just …
Read More »How a YA teen Joker pitch turned into a Hannibal-esque take on the Harley Quinn / Joker dynamic
We often see the Joker through the eyes of superheroes, but what does he look like from the perspective of a real-life crime expert, like an FBI profiler? Less superhero, more Hannibal? That recently happened in a DC mature-readers series called Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (opens in new tab). And it …
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