Joker in the new 52

[hanotsri]

His face will heal in no time, I am sure of it.

[manduck37]

The Joker's face isn't really a big deal to me. After all, our hero Batman had his spine snapped in half by a roided out wrestler at one point. I don't see Batman in a wheelchair. So putting a face back on, no big deal.

[theDarkJAww13]

^^ This.

I'm new here, and don't want to speak out of turn, but there is a lot of hate on the boards for new direction and change. Everyone's ready to "drop" a title at the slightest perceived imperfection, yet they call themselves "fans"!

Hoping the negativity isn't a permanent feature of the forums, otherwise I might have to drop them. hahahahaha. ha.

Haha then I hope you weren't planning on staying on these forums for too long, 85% naysayers who have to rip apart any new comic story that appeals to a mass audience to keep their 'I like comics more than you and know absolutely all there is to know' mindset in order. They try way too hard and only come off as ignorant children who complain constantly lol

Still I dig tthese forums a lot, just gotta look past them lol

[dntfeedthemnkys]

I mostly dislike the face thing, as it really adds nothing to the story. There's better ways to show you're pissed off than have a dude cut your face off. The practicality of the face/mask is kind of entertaining, but not very. Overall, I'm really just waiting for the hoop jumping to get him back to normal. It would make sense if Hush could reconstruct his face somehow, I suppose.

But was it because he was pissed off? Does the Joker work/think like that? I thought it was more about disappearing.

That or Snyder read about Aussie toe-cutter/criminal and best-selling-author Mark Brandon Read.

I think the face-thing is fun for what it is on a visual level. I think Snyder and Capullo have kind of been trying to sell a deeper change in the character because of it, which I'm not buying, as I don't feel it changes character in any sort of meaningful way other than a freakier appearance. But just in terms of appearance I think its fun to play with for a while.

I think they have definitely been selling a "deeper change in the character" but I'm not sure it's meant to be "due" to his face. I took the loss of the face in the first place in Detective Comics 001 (2011) as a symptom of an overall, darker, change in the Joker. But that's just my interpretation.

Haha then I hope you weren't planning on staying on these forums for too long, 85% naysayers who have to rip apart any new comic story that appeals to a mass audience to keep their 'I like comics more than you and know absolutely all there is to know' mindset in order. They try way too hard and only come off as ignorant children who complain constantly lol

Still I dig tthese forums a lot, just gotta look past them lol

Hahaha.. Yeah. Water off a duck's back. :-)

[batman23]

His face will heal in no time, I am sure of it.

when fully removed, skin doesn't grown back lol

[batman23]

it felt too gimmicky when I first heard about it, but oh well. hopefully we'll get some answers in the next Batman issue

[dntfeedthemnkys]

it felt too gimmicky when I first heard about it, but oh well. hopefully we'll get some answers in the next Batman issue

I'm nearly a day ahead of the US, so it won't release until while I'm asleep on Wednesday the 14th, meaning it will be there when I wake Thursday the 15th (in comiXology). That extra day's wait is a real kick to the plums!!

[batman23]

I'm nearly a day ahead of the US, so it won't release until while I'm asleep on Wednesday the 14th, meaning it will be there when I wake Thursday the 15th (in comiXology). That extra day's wait is a real kick to the plums!!

That's not fair. If anything, you guys should get it a day early (in respect to the US release date)

[dntfeedthemnkys]

That's not fair. If anything, you guys should get it a day early (in respect to the US release date)

I wish!! But, I guess that would just lead to street dates being broken etc etc... I'm used to it now. :-)

[batman23]

I wish!! But, I guess that would just lead to street dates being broken etc etc... I'm used to it now. :-)

do you get the physical copies of the comics also?

[dntfeedthemnkys]

do you get the physical copies of the comics also?

I've got some physical individual and some trades. I have to mail-order though.. I live in a beach town and there's no comic shop here.

I'm currently toying with getting the individual issues for a collection, or simply collecting individual issues I love, and then the rest via the trades.

:-/

How I've been rolling so far is to get a variety of comics digitally, then the Batman (2011 - ) in trades.. plus some individual issues of note (like issue 1 and issue 13). Then things like the absolutes etc.

But I'm very, very tempted to do Batman 2011 - in individual issues for a collection.

[hunter_peterson]

But was it because he was pissed off? Does the Joker work/think like that? I thought it was more about disappearing.

Snyder has said that this is "an angry Joker, a Joker with an axe to grind" and that the face-ectomy was sort of him throwing down the gauntlet to Batman (and apparently was about a year ago). He's talked about the face being a statement of how far he's willing to go now to prove his point. Or something... it really isn't as deep as that, I think, but we'll get some characters discussing why he'd do that soon, I'm sure.

[dntfeedthemnkys]

Snyder has said that this is "an angry Joker, a Joker with an axe to grind" and that the face-ectomy was sort of him throwing down the gauntlet to Batman (and apparently was about a year ago). He's talked about the face being a statement of how far he's willing to go now to prove his point. Or something... it really isn't as deep as that, I think, but we'll get some characters discussing why he'd do that soon, I'm sure.

Thx mate!!! That gives me good background!!

[hunter_peterson]

Thx mate!!! That gives me good background!!

You're more than welcome.