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The size of the Joker edition for DC Compact Comics topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past five years Founded fifteen years ago, and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip[...]

Catwoman: Trail of the Catwoman by Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker is 336 pages. So we understand the landscape, right? Maybe not. This week, we saw the release of Joker by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, and it's only 136 pages long That's a third of the size of the other DC Compact Comics titles, and it really stands out on the[...]

will debut their upcoming film Joker: Folie À Deux at the Venice Film Festival, following in the footsteps of the first film When Joker received its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival in 2019, the film actually received an eight-minute standing ovation and won the Golden Lion award despite its somewhat divisive nature[...]

That's where the voice and the physicality comes into play, and then you have fun with it, but it's a lot of prep." The Boys returns for its fifth and final season in 2026, while the spinoff series Gen V's second season will premiere in 2025 on Prime Video. #TheBoys' Erin Moriarty says Heath Ledger's Joker performance in #TheDarkKnight inspired[...]

Sideshow Collectibles has unveiled a striking new DC Comics statue titled The Joker and Harley Quinn: Lawless Love.  These deadly romantics have seemingly been reimagining, adding some dapper fashion to the iconic Batman villains put now as 1920s bank robbers This highly detailed piece captures the infamous duo's chaotic charm and twisted romance in great[...]

Batman now leads a small resistance group to take on the fallen Man of Steel and survive with a team that consists of Cyborg, Flash, Mera, and Joker Knightmare Joker made his debut at the end of Zack Snyder's Justice League, with Jared Leto returning for the role. Not much is known about this character, but[...]

Hot Toys is returning to Gotham with a brand new 1/6 scale figure as the origin of the Joker is explored Released in 2019 and directed by Todd Phillips, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as the failed comedian Arthur Fleck Set in 1981 Gotham City, the film follows Arthur as a failed comedian with some severe[...]

With the finale now available via Digitial, fans are getting to see for themselves how the final moments between the late Kevin Conroy's Batman and Mark Hamill's Joker went down Based on the online reactions so far, folks are praising the scene as being fitting and respectful, with many pointing to Conroy's final lines as Batman as[...]

Jason Todd walking out like the stroppy teenager from Bruce Wayne and Alfred at the Wayne Manor… And Damian Wayne watching Bane on Dinosaur Island, recalling just what it was that Alfred said to him. Jason Todd recalls the events with the Joker that, in another lifetime, would have killed him. While Damian recalls the events that played[...]

The Joker, one of DC Comics' most iconic villains, first appeared in Batman #1 in 1940 and was created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson He was initially depicted as a psychopathic clown with a penchant for chaotic crime, but the Joker's character has since evolved through various comic book eras, television series,[...]

It was back in February when the news hit that the late Kevin Conroy's Batman would be joined by Mark Hamill's Joker in the third & final chapter of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – marking the final reunion of the two iconic voice actors & Batman: The Animated Series co-stars. In addition, we learned[...]

It looks like Joker is hitting the road with a new bag of jokes, and McFarlane Toys is capturing all the fun Coming to life from DC Direct and McFarlane Toys, the Joker Mobile is hitting the streets of Gotham right from Batman: The Animated Series Mayhem is going on a road trip with an[...]

Recently Bleeding Cool reported on Joker: The World being published by DC Comics, including work by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok, who created the Three Jokers story together announced for 2017 and finally published in late 2020, as well as the Justice League story that originally led into it (though that has now been written[...]

Next week's Batman #146 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez and Michele Bandini sees the history of The Joker and Batman rewritten with key moments now given new perspectives And that includes just what The Joker really wanted in The Killing Joke and Death In The Family The brutalisation of Barbara Gordon and the murder of[...]

DC Comics is followiong up their internationally outsourced graphic anthology Batman: The World with Joker: The World With creators including Geoff Johns, Satoshi Miyagawa, David Rubin, German Peralta, Alvaro Fong Varela and Jason Fabok, in total representing creators from thirteen different countries – including the USA – and to be published in hardcover in September[...]

Prepare to witness the eternal struggle between Batman and the World's Greatest Detective, taking on Joker, The Clown Prince of Crime Coming to life from Sideshow Collectibles, a brand new Premium Format masterpiece is on the way Capturing the breathtaking rivalry between Batman and the Joker, this Eternal Enemies statue comes in at a whopping[...]

A few months ago, Bleeding Cool ran a little bit of Bat Gossip that promised "more of Batman's trainers from Batman: The Knight by Chip Zdarsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico are going to be relevant, and you may want a reread before Joker Year One starts Because the Joker had to learn some of this stuff from someone, right?" Batman #139 And so in[...]

Speaking with "a source close to the production," IGN revealed that the late Kevin Conroy's Batman will be joined by Mark Hamill's Joker – marking the final reunion of the two iconic voice actors & Batman: The Animated Series co-stars In addition, IGN also has the following voice actors joining Conroy & Hamill: Corey Stoll (Lex Luthor),[...]

It is often stated that the Joker is in love with Batman Most obviously in The Lego Batman Movie, but it has been a regular theme over the years. He is Batman's "sweet" boo boo, thanks to Frank Miller and Klaus Janson. Dark Knight Returns Batman is the key to the Joker's happiness. So he's joking[...]

Batman #144, out this Tuesday, by Chip Zdarsky, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, and Andrea Sorrentino continues Joker Year One set in the past and the future So while Batman has to deal with a Jokerized Batman family let loose on the streets of Gotham, in the past we see the corrupt-police-infiltrated Red Hood Gang. And one[...]

Batman #143 by Chip Zdarsky, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi and Andrea Sorrentino, out next Tuesday, continues the story of the Joker, told from both the future and the past And revealing plenty along the way As there are more details of the Jokerisation of Gotham after his escape The infection spread through everyone, triggered by[...]

And we always like to mark our own homework and check exactly how we did. We already looked at the Red Mask being responsible for the triplication of the Joker that had so plagued the Batman, revealed in a scene set in Batman's future And about Commissioner Barbara Gordon's plans for the Joker But we also[...]

In 2019, DC Comics fans got to see a truly wicked origin story come to life on the big screen with Joker Set in the early 1980s, the film follows the failed comedy Arthur Fleck as he struggles with the mental health system while being a social outcast in the failed Gotham City His descent[...]

The Joker telling a joke to Batman, as portrayed by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, in The Killing Joke. That indicates that they are both as insane as each other, but pretending or acting like they aren't. "See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…and one night, one night they decide they don't like living[...]

We're still waiting to witness the potential magic of the upcoming Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, a film that's now planning to introduce the character to a new interpretation of Harley Quinn after being portrayed by Margot Robbie in projects such as both Suicide Squad films and Birds of Prey Fortunately, the role will remain[...]

His life changes when he discovers his true identity and becomes involved in a political intrigue. Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs, Conrad Veidt's appearance is also famed as a visual inspiration for The Joker While Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson differed as to which of them created the Joker in 1940, they agreed[...]

But between then and now, we have Joker Year One How will we get from one to the other? With Bruce Wayne, imprisoned for the rest of his life, with a certain recognisable cellmate. Because it looks like Zur-En-Arrh in the Failsafe suit managed to do what Bruce Wayne hasn't been able to do for some time[...]

DC Comics is making Batman a weekly comic for three weeks in February for The Joker: Year One, a three-part story running in Batman #142, #143, and #144 But knowing that such a schedule makes it harder for comic book retailers to order effectively in advance, based on previous issue sales especially when DC Comics[...]

This Tuesday, December 19th, DC delivers a "New York Times Bestseller" no one asked for, and everyone saw coming: the regurgitation festival that is Joker/Harley Quinn Uncovered #1 As if the constant deluge of variant covers wasn't enough to ensure that collectors' wallets are permanently tethered to comic book cash registers, we now have a[...]

Well, folks, strap in for a ride back to the silent film era with DC's latest bit of artistic indulgence, Batman and The Joker: The Deadly Duo Unplugged #1 If you thought the dynamic and the diabolical couldn't get any weirder, wait until you toss the dialogue out the window like so much bat-garbage Be[...]