New DC Comics previews confirm that a major Batman character is about to get a violent rematch with The Joker! Jason Todd, aka Red Hood, is going to throw down with Joker again – the man who violently beat him to “death” with a crowbar. However, this time around the fight isn’t exactly fair, as Joker has been severely injured – not to mention the fact that he’s just been poisoned by Harley Quinn! Joker’s old grudges are all coming back to haunt him at once – and that’s just the beginning!
“I think the Joker is such a fascinating character because he’s so unique and iconic – and he’s the most famous villain in comics. He’s also such a mystery – more than almost any other mainstream character in comics. He is in comics all the time. He’s in movies and TV, and we know so little about him. I think what that does is really cause writers, comic creators, and fans to really try and explore what he is, who he is, and what he means.
When you do that, when you look at the character and his history, there’s all these different interpretations and iterations, and it starts to become this real mystery in the real world of what this character is and what he can be. It’s a really sort of fascinating thing that I’ve never kind of come across in other comics. You’ll get other people interpreting characters and redefining them and changing them, but the Joker doesn’t have a solid foundation that we know. He doesn’t have anything we can go back to and [identify as] the core Joker. He is this chaotic entity that is always sort of changing and morphing. There’s elements you recognize, and there’s things that change. I think from that, there’s sort of a logical extrapolation of looking at all these different iterations and versions of the Joker and sort of wondering what if and who is he? What does it mean? What is my Joker when I’m telling a story? That’s really where it comes from for me.”
