Too bad it's the Joker as he doesn't actually appear in the comics. It's a rewrite that makes the character not suck, I admit, but it has very little to do with the Joker who is a Batman villain.
I am under the distinct impression that "Joker as he appears in the comics" is not a phrase that means much, since he's been reinvented just as often as his archnemisisisis Batman has, over the years.
Really, anything remotely associated with the Batman universe cannot be considered to have a single, "real" canon interpretation anymore. The story's been redone a gazillion times, in every medium.
(At any rate, I wasn't necessarily saying that "this is how Joker should be, canonically", I was more agreeing with torrain that "this is how Joker should be, because that would be awesome".)
Pretty much. (That said, the Joker as he should be to provide maximum awesome does show up in the comics a few times--Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth[1] and (to a slightly lesser degree) The Killing Joke that mhoye mentioned spring to mind, and there are bits of it in Dark Knight Returns--so I have no problem saying that this is him as he appears in the comics. Just, you know, the best bits of him, with the crud filtered out.)
I think the Joker is the only comic-book villain I've ever seen to get an anthology of prose stories dedicated to him alone. A couple are uninspired--the Joker as a child ones really didn't grab me--but F. Paul Wilson's leaves me grinning every time, and Sheri S. Tepper's is a neat and quiet little package.
...yeah, I am a horror fangirl. Anyway. --- [1] Which has got to be my favourite subtitle of all time.
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Date: 2007-12-13 04:40 pm (UTC)Which is why I was encouraged when I listened to the teaser trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWw0ov-cAUg) for the movie.
Certainly sounds like they have the right idea.
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Date: 2007-12-13 06:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-13 07:59 pm (UTC)Really, anything remotely associated with the Batman universe cannot be considered to have a single, "real" canon interpretation anymore. The story's been redone a gazillion times, in every medium.
(At any rate, I wasn't necessarily saying that "this is how Joker should be, canonically", I was more agreeing with
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Date: 2007-12-13 09:11 pm (UTC)I think the Joker is the only comic-book villain I've ever seen to get an anthology of prose stories dedicated to him alone. A couple are uninspired--the Joker as a child ones really didn't grab me--but F. Paul Wilson's leaves me grinning every time, and Sheri S. Tepper's is a neat and quiet little package.
...yeah, I am a horror fangirl. Anyway.
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[1] Which has got to be my favourite subtitle of all time.