PSA

Whoa, long time no see guys! I didn't mean to abandon this blog, but I forgot the password for it until today! More good news, I will be revamping the blog during the next few days and adding new content! Other things I plan to do: add more moderators and set up a Joker Week 2.0/Joker Challenge!

hello, i doodled jelly Joker in SAI Wanna hang out?

Andy Kubert’s Joker’s Greatest Hits

The Andy Kubert six variant covers for Batman each depict one of The Joker’s greatest moments.  

Batman #35 - Red Hood Origin Story Batman #36 - First Appearance (see panels from Batman #1) Batman #37 - Death In The Family Batman #38 - The Killing Joke Batman #39 - Death Of The Family Batman #40 - Endgame

The Joker by Danil Kalashnikov

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #163

“It’s been a blast.”

The Joker by Gabriel Soares  

I made a companion thing to this Harley design that I did a while back.

You can get it as a shirt here: http://www.neatoshop.com/artist/Fishmas

I am the clown prince of crime. I can’t stop laughing!

Can you justify Joker's abuse toward Harley?

i can explain why he abused her and treated her so horribly but explaining and justifying it are two different things, because what he did to her is not right or reasonable in anyway.

***tl;dr at the bottom***

so before harley quinn, joker had almost never been written to experience love or compassion or any other pesky shit that comes with being in love. he might as well have not had those emotions at all.

unfortunately for the trash prince of crime, while on the conquest for his next ‘get out of arkham free’ card, he met harleen quinzel. now we all know that she fell for joker during their sessions together, but HE also was catching feelings for HER in the process too, like catching a cinderblock to the face. that isn’t very clear in mad love, which is the very first comic to show their relationship before they were partners in crime (it’s an outdated book on their relationship imho). but it’s much more apparent that he was developing an emotional attachment to harley in her first comic appearance (outside of the btas tie-ins), her solo comic run, and the no man’s land arc. when exactly these emotions for surfaced isn’t pinpointed, but harley’s solo run and no man’s land hint to the fact that it was during their sessions as well.

now as i mentioned, joker was almost never written as feeling romantic love prior to harley quinn - there’s a comic where he goes “sane” and finds a girl but that’s another meta post for another time - so when she elicited such strong emotions in him, it was strange and new and he didn’t like it. according to him, his emotions for her were getting in the way of being a villain and taking his stake in gotham. as a result he fashioned the perfect plan to revert to the big bad, emotionless villain he once was: get rid of the person giving him strange, new feelings and the feelings would go away with that person. so tried to do just that through abusing her and trying to kill her. he really had no idea how to deal with his emotions he was having for her other than to resort to violence.

tl;dr: harley made joker feel so much for her that it distracted him from being a villain and he felt the only solution was to get rid of her by treating her horribly and trying to kill her.