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 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.