#anarky 1999

[lonniemachin]

they were putting kyle rayner in everything in the 90s

[tiredofsatansbullshit]

Jason Todd Reading List

Pre-Crisis Robin

(this includes his origin, how he becomes Robin, and what happens to this version of Jason in the Pre-Crisis Timeline)

Batman #357-399 (1983-1986)

Detective Comics #524-567 (1983-1986)

Batman #400-403 (1986-1987)

Crisis on Infinite Earths #5, #9, #11-12 (1985-1986)

Post Crisis Robin

(includes his origin, how he becomes Robin and his death - i tried to have this chronologically according to when these events take place so that means the publishing order is a bit weird)

Nightwing #103-106 - Collected as Nightwing: Year One

Batman #402-403, #408-425, #430-431

Batman Annual #10-12

Tales of the Teen Titans #86-91

Legends

Detective Comics #575-578

Batman: Full Circle

Superman Annual #11 (1985)

Blue Devil #19 (1986)

New Teen Titans #18-31 (1986-1987)

Action Comics #556, #594

Batman: The Cult

Batman: A Death in the Family

Post Death Mentions

(includes any mentions, memories or appearances of Jason's "ghost" after his death. honestly, you don't need to read these to follow along for Jason's storyline but they show how those who cared about him dealt with his death.)

Batman #432-435, #496 (1987-1993)

Detective Comics #606, #609 (1989)

Underworld Unleashed #2 (1995)

Batman/Demon (1996)

Nightwing #10 (1997)

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #100 (1997)

Nightwing: Secret Files and Origins (1999)

Jokers Last Laugh (2001)

Joker: Last Laugh Secret Files and Origins (2001)

Deadman: Dead Again (2001)

Batman: Gotham Knights 16, #34, #43-45 (2001-2003)

JLA Avengers #2 (2003)

Batman: Gotham Country line (2005)

Detective Comics #790 (2004)

Batman #620-630 (2004)

Red Hood

Red Hood: The Lost Days - This is before Jason returns to Gotham as the Red Hood. It shows a bit of what he did after coming back to life

Hush/Batman #608-619 (2002-2003)

Batman: Under the Red Hood

Teen Titans V2 #29

Nightwing V2 #118-124 - collected in - Nightwing: Brothers in Blood

Outsiders V3 #44-46

Outsiders V3 Annual 1

Green Arrow V3 #69-72

Countdown to Final Crisis: Countdown to Final Crisis #51 (2007) Teen Titans #47 (2007) Countdown to Final Crisis #50-33 (2007) All New Atom #13-15 (2007) Countdown to Final Crisis #31-1 (2007-2008)

Battle for the Cowl: Robin #177, #182-183 (2008-2009) Azrael: Deaths Dark Knight #3 (2009) Batman: Battle for the Cowl (2009) Batman and Robin #3-6, #23-25 (2009-2011)

New 52 Red Hood

Batman #0

Secret Origins #5

Red Hood and The Outlaws V1 #1-14 (2011-2015)

DC Universe Presents #17 (2015)

Batman: Death of the Family: Batman #13-15 Red Hood and The Outlaws #15 Teen Titans #15 Batman #16 Red Hood and The Outlaws #16 Teen Titans #16 Batman #17

Red Hood and The Outlaws #17 (2013)

Batman and Robin #10-12, #17 (2012-2013)

Batman Inc (2012-2013)

Red Hood and The Outlaws #18 (2013)

Justice League #19 (2013)

Batman and Robin #20 (2013)

Supergirl #35 (2014)

Batman/Superman Annual 1 (2014)

Action Comics #34 (2014)

Action Comics Annual 3 (2014)

Batman and Robin #33-37 (2014-2015)

Red Hood and The Outlaws #19 (2013)

Red Hood and The Outlaws Annual 1 (2013)

Red Hood and The Outlaws #20-40 (2013-2015)

Batman Eternal #10-12,#15 ,#18-20 ,#25 ,#26 ,#28 (2014-2015)

Grayson #12 (2015)

Deathstroke V3 #15-16 (2014)

Batman/Superman #25-27 (2014)

Red Hood/Arsenal #1-6 (2015)

Batman and Robin Eternal (2015-2016)

Robin War: Robin War #1 (2015) Grayson #15 (2015) Detective Comics #47 (2015) Red Hood/Arsenal #7 (2015) We are Robin #7 (2015) Robin: Son of Batman #7 (2015) Robin War #6 (2016)

Red Hood/Arsenal #8-13 (2015-2016)

Rebirth Red Hood

(current continuity)

Red Hood and The Outlaws V2 #1-6

Batman #16

Nightwing #15 (2017)

Trinity Annual 1

Trinity #12-15 (2017) - This and Trinity Annual 1 is also known as Dark Destiny Arc

Red Hood and The Outlaws #7-18

Red Hood and The Outlaws Annual 1

Batman #33 (2017)

Detective Comics #967-968 (2017)

New Talent Showcase (2017)

Batman and The Signal #1, #3 (2018)

Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs Anarky

Red Hood and The Outlaws #26-31

Red Hood and The Outlaws Annual 2

Teen Titans #22 (2018)

Teen Titans Annual 1 (2019)

Red Hood: Outlaw #31-36 - Continuing on from the Red Hood and The Outlaws comics but Jason is on his own now.

Red Hood: Outlaw Annual 3

Event Leviathan #2-3 (2019)

Harley Quinn: Villain of the Year (2019)

Red Hood: Outlaw #37-47

Batman: Alfred R.I.P #1 (2020)

Robin 80th Anniversary (2020)

Joker War: Nightwing #72 (2020) Red Hood: Outlaw #49 (2020) Batman #100 (2020)

Detective Comics #1030-1033 (2020)

Teen Titans #45 (2020)

Red Hood: Outlaw #50-52 (2020)

Batman: Urban Legends #1-6

Truth & Justice #10-12

Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter #1

Robin #5 (2021)

Nightwing Annual 1

Detective Comics #1041-1043, #1052, #1057

Task Force Z #1-12 (2021-2022)

The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #2-10 (2022-2023) - This is still ongoing, I will update when new issues that Jason appears in is published - in 6 and 7 Jason is only there for a few panels

Batman: Legends of Gotham (2023)

Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution (2023)

Batman 136 (2023)

Knight Terrors: Robin (2023)

Gotham War: ongoing

Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War: Prelude [2023] Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War: Battle lines[2023] Catwoman 57 [2023] Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War: Red Hood #1 [2023] Batman 138 [2023] Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War:Red Hood #2 [2023] Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War: Scorched Earth - releasing 31/10/23

Nightwing 107 [2023]

Future State

(I'll be honest, I don't understand Future State vs current continuity so I can't explain much for this but it's a possible future timeline I think. Jason is undercover as a cop in this btw)

Dark Detective

Future State: Gotham #1-18

Alternate Universes

(can chose what among these you want to read. none of this affects the current continuity)

Batwoman #6 (2017)

- In this comic, Batwoman travels to an alternate universe where we see a Jason Todd who was never taken in by Bruce Wayne and ends up becoming a priest

DC Universe Legacies #5,6

Batman The Brave and the bold #13 (2012)

Li’l Gotham #2, #10, #12, #17, #20, #21, #24 (2012-2013)

- This comic is adorable

Tiny Titans #23, #29, #33, #39, #45, #47 (2010-2012)

- This comic is also adorable

Convergence: Batman and Robin (2015)

Arkhamverse: (these tie in with the Batman: Arkham Knight video game)

Arkham Knight: Genesis

Batman: Arkham Knight - the game picks up right after the end of this comic

DC Comics’ Bombshells #46, #60, #62 (2015-2016)

Bombshells United #18-24 (2018)

The Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade #1 (2016)

Injustice: (these tie in with the Injustice video games)

Injustice - Gods Among Us: Year Five #38 (2016)

Injustice 2 #2-3, #5-7, #13, #18-20, #46-49 (2017-2018)

Injustice Vs. The Masters Of The Universe (2018)

Beware the Batman #11 (2014)

Batman: White Knight #7 (2018)

Mother Panic: Gotham A.D #2-6 (2018)

Batman Beyond #25 (2018)

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III #5-6 (2019)

Titans Giant #1-4 (2020)

DCEASED: Unkillables (2020)

DCEASED: Dead Planet #2-5 (2020)

Batman the Adventure Continues (2020)

Batman: Three Jokers #1-3 (2020)

Suicide Squad: Get Joker! #1-3 (2021)

Titans United (2021)

- This was to promote the Titans HBO show (even though it does not tie with the show)

DC's Round Robin - Robins (2021)

DC vs Vampires

Dark Knights of Steel: (Ongoing, I will update as they are posted. Medieval AU, the Robins are all younger and met each other before they met Bruce)

Dark Knights of Steel: Tales from the Three Kingdoms

Dark Knights of Steel #1

Batman vs Robin (2022)

- Some more honesty, I haven't got a clue as to what this fits in with so I can't help much with this but I do know that it will be 5 issues, finishing in 2023

Batman - Beyond The White Knight #1, #4-8 (2022) (ongoing)

Batman White Knight Presents: Red Hood #1-2 (2022)

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Ongoing series on Webtoon.)

Red Hood: Outlaws (Ongoing series on Webtoon)

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #1, #4 (2023) - at the end we get to see an alternate universe where young Jason and Dick are brothers and first meet Bruce

Other Media

TV Shows

Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Season 2 Episode 19 - In this universe, Dick Grayson is the only Robin but in S2 E19, "Emperor Joker" features a scene in Bat-Mite's extra-dimensional museum where Bat-Mite has a statue depicting Jason's death. Bat-Mite then breaks the fourth wall and tells Batman that readers voted for Jason to die.

Young Justice - S2 E8, S2 E9, S2 E20, S4 E19 an image of Jason as Robin is seen with other memorials for heros. - Jason is also thought to be the Red Hooded Ninja who appears in S3 E6, S4 E5, S4 E8

Titans - Seasons 1 and 2 with a short cameo in season 3 of the HBO show

Movies

Batman: Under the Red Hood - Animated movie that changes the storyline of Jason's death, resurrection and return to Gotham

Batman: Death in the Family (2020) - This is an interactive film involving the events of Batman: Death in the Family comics.

Lego DC Batman: Family Matters (2019)

Video Games

Batman: Arkham Knight - Arkham Knight: Genesis and Batman: Arkham Knight comics are set before the events of this game.

Injustice: (these tie in with the Injustice comics listed above under Alternate Universes) Injustice: Gods Among us (mentioned) Injustice 2

Gotham Knights - The Batfamily (Dick, Barbara, Jason and Tim) protecting Gotham, as well as dealing with the death of Batman. This was very recently released and I haven't played it so I can't tell you much.

I just want to add the following: I cannot guarantee that this is 100% accurate or up to date. I will do my best to update when we get new Jason content. I have not had any help with this and got the information from multiple other sources. Because I've had no help, no one has proof checked this so there might be some errors.

If you notice any errors or know of anything I've missed please let me know and I will fix the error as soon as I can!

Last Updated: 25 October 2023

[dc-polls]

They Would Not Fucking Say That! Preliminary Poll

Lonnie Machin (Anarky)

From: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs. Anarky. New 52/Prime Earth(?) Context: Anarky attempts to thwart Catwoman’s bachelorette party (it was a lead-up to the Bruce/Selina fail wedding) and Jason Todd attempts to stop him.

Teams up with fascists to ruin Selina’s outing by sowing violence, chaos, and destruction in a large crowd of people because the Joker played on his desire for a father figure.

Lonnie, prior to the reboot, was conceived as and most prominently depicted as a politically left-anarchist character until his creator and primary writer, Alan Grant, began getting into Randian Neo-Tech Objectivism and projected it onto Lonnie as Lonnie was always his political mouthpiece. However, despite Lonnie's political sway going from more anarcho-communist to objectivist, he was always a character who had near-unwavering, passionate stances on social issues. He considered anyone who preyed on the common man, or "enemies of the people", to be *his* enemies, and he often came at this from a leftist point of view. He was a strong supporter of social justice for the oppressed, and it was his sorrow and outrage at oppression that led him to take up vigilantism. He despised fascism and considered anyone who used initiatory violence against others to be opposed to him. To Lonnie, anarchism is a philosophy of total freedom from oppression, self-determination, and helping your fellow man, not 'chaos'.

He was also *very* anti-gun and anti-weapon of mass destruction. Whenever he used bombs, they were often smoke bombs or paint bombs. On the one single occasion he used actual bombs to blow up a munitions factory, he evacuated everyone in the building before it blew up, as he cares for the lives of innocents and does not kill. The one single time that it is implied that he killed, his victim was a man who blew up 20+ innocent people in a public setting via bombing and used him as a scapegoat. He has said before that he 'can't let innocent people die because of him'. He holds to this even if he can be clumsy in his methods. When he once experienced a machine-induced dream in which Gotham City descended into fiery chaos because of his well-intentioned actions, he had a crying breakdown.

And, on the Joker - in his 1999 solo series, there is a plot point that is left open-ended that implies the Joker could be Lonnie's biological father, as he is an adoptee. This was done to cement Lonnie into the Batman mythos, as his creators Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle cared a lot about him. When editors disapproved of this, they let Grant write it on the condition that he would prove it wrong later on, but after the Joker issue the series was canceled, and so for all intents and purposes, it was not meant to be lasting 'canon'. Lonnie has been known to hate the Gotham Rogues, as he considers their actions against the people of the city to be completely antithetical to his views and ideals, some of the most important things to him. When he thought that the Joker could've been his father, he had a breakdown. He visited Arkham in order to find out and the Joker briefly played on his (at the time, a 16 year old child) yearning to figure out his parentage in the wake of his adoptive parents' implied death (with some genetic determinism 'does this mean i'll be a "madman" too? involved, but, eugh), but once the Joker tried to use Lonnie to help him break out of Arkham, Lonnie quickly acted against him to prevent his escape. It is said in a (dubiously canon) Batman encyclopedia that the crisis that the Joker could have been his father put him through caused him to self-isolate even harder than he normally does for a while until Cassie Sandsmark's speech during YJ: Sins of Youth inspired him back onto the field. Needless to say, he hates the Joker, and his hatred for the Joker's actions was enough to override his want for a parental figure.

In the post-reboot continuity, Lonnie is no longer an adoptee and his single mother would tell him the Joker was his 'real father' and would come and get him if he misbehaved. He began writing letters to the Joker, who eventually tried to get Lonnie to 'impress' him by giving Batman a 'rehearsal' before his wedding. Lonnie did this by gathering militant anti-feminist terrorists and gun nuts alongside leftists and anti-fascists in one place in order to get them to fight each other and cause 'blood, smoke, and chaos.'

As always, remember to check the notes for info others may have shared, and reblog to help increase reach!

Submissions close Wednesday August 23, 11:00 pm EDT

[zahri-melitor]

Anarky 1999 is exhausting to read but so so funny.

Lonnie is Alan Grant’s little blue-eyed boy (even with green eyes) and it SHOWS the whole way through.

What’s that, Lonnie? Only 23 people in a day have bought your treatise on anarchism? I wonder why, given you’re 16 years old and I assume the prose is deathless.

The levels of drama going on here, with can I note RA’S AL GHUL’S SERVANT carving the anarchy symbol on Lonnie’s chest.

[puppybong]

readcomiconline.li/Comic/Anarky-1997 readcomiconline.li/Comic/Anarky-1999

Have fun

You are my favorite ever

[linyphiidae]

⏰ (free reign!)

🕸️ > peek into my muses' memories ! slip a ⏰to see a memory or a part of my muses' past.

Gotham City, NJ. 1999.

No matter how intelligent Lonnie believed herself to be, even she was willing to admit the limits of her own ability -- for now. Her current pet project, into which she'd poured weeks of precious time, would never be as perfect as she dreamed it could be, when she wanted it to be. Even human beings as uninhibited as herself couldn't yet create sapient, thinking, feeling life.

It was a start, though. It was as close to perfect as it needed to be, considering she had laid its foundation with a map of her own mind.

Seated in a desk chair in the bowels of her newest base, she inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly, opening her eyes, squaring her shoulders, and orienting her digits. She'd save her glee for a truly successful trial. First she needed to see if the damn thing worked. Pressing and holding the 'on' button of one of many computer consoles, Lonnie leaned forward, eyes glued to a large monitor. A finger hooked under her nose. The screen flashed a bright blue, and after inserting the proper password and bypassing her myriad security measures, she inserted a small USB stick into the appropriate port. She clicked the folder at the bottom of her desktop. An 'install' here, a 'run' there.

Making sure her microphone and speakers were in order, she swallowed. As clearly and directly as she could manage, she spoke.

"Hello, my name is Anarky. Can you hear me?" Beat, "Who am I talking to?" Beat.

"Multi-Augmented X-Program, online. Loud and clear, boss!"

Three seconds. A new record, and this time, she hadn't even needed to type. She could feel that glee threatening to surface, a wide grin splitting her face in two.

"You are Multi-Augmented X-Program." Beat, "Do you know who I am?"

Two seconds. A sudden, strange euphoria burst inside her chest. She was giddy. Lightheaded.

"If you would, Anarky, call me MAX!"

[nightwings-kiwi]

For my sanity and my obsession with lists, I've decided that I have to make a complete collection of the DC content that I've consumed

Comics: Adventure Comics: #1-#6 Batman and Robin Vol. 1: #1-#26 Batman & Robin Eternal: #1-#26 Batman Arkham Knight Genesis Batman: #635-#641, #645-#650, #687-#700, #703-#713 Batman Battle of the Cowl #1-#3 Batman Beyond 1999: #1-#6 Batman Beyond 2001: #1-#24 Batman Beyond 2010: #1-#5 Batman Beyond 2011: #1-#8 Batman Beyond Neo-Year: #1-#6 Batman Beyond Rebirth: #1-#50 Batman Beyond Return of the Joker Batman Beyond Universe: #1-#16 Batman Beyond Unlimited: #1-18 Batman Pennyworth R.I.P. Batman Prelude to the Wedding: Nightwing vs. Hush, Red Hood vs. Anarky Batman Three Jokers: #1-#3 Batman vs. Bigby: #1-#6 Batman Wayne Family Adventures DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy DC vs. Vampires Gotham Academy #1-#18 Grayson: #1-#20, Annuals #1-#3 Li’l Gotham: #1-#24 Nightwing Alfred’s Return Nightwing and Huntress: #1-#4 Nightwing Our World’s at War Nightwing Secret Files Nightwing The New Order Nightwing The Target Nightwing Vol. 1: #1-#4 Nightwing Vol. 2: #1-#153, #1,000,000, ½, Annual #1 Nightwing Vol. 3: #0-#30, Annual #1 Nightwing Vol. 4: #1-#49, #75-95, Annuals #1-#3 Outsiders Vol. 3: #1-#50 Red Hood and the Outlaws: #0-#40, Annuals #1-#2 Red Hood and The Outlaws Vol. 2: #1-#26, Outlaw #27-50, Red Hood #51-#52, Annuals #1-#3 Red Hood/Arsenal: #1-#13 Red Hood The Lost Days: #1-#6 Robins: #1-#6 Robin War Superboy Smallville Attacks: #1-#7 Superboy Vol. 5: #0-#34 The Titans Vol. 1: #1-45 Titans Hunt: #1-#8 Titans United: #1-#7 Titans/Young Justice Graduation Day: #1-#3 Read the comics related to my blorbos only: Action Comics Azrael Agent of the Bat Batgirl and the Birds of Prey Batgirl Vol. 2 Batgirl Vol. 4 Batgirl Vol. 5 Batman and Robin Vol. 2 Batman and the Outsiders Vol. 2 Batman Beyond 2015 Batman Day of Judgement Batman Gotham Adventures Batman Gotham Knights Batman Gotham Nights Batman Outlaws Batman Vol. 1 Batman Vol. 3 Batman/Superman Batman/Superman World's Finest Birds of Prey Vol. 1 Birds of Prey Vol. 2 Convergence Countdown to Final Crisis Detective Comics Vol. 1 Detective Comics Vol. 2 Detective Comics Vol. 3 Future’s End Green Arrow Vol. 3 Injustice Gods Among Us Outsiders Vol. 2 Red Robin Robin Robin Son of Batman Superboy Vol. 1 Superman Vol. 3 Teen Titans Vol. 3 The Ravagers Titans Together Titans Vol. 2 Titans Vol. 3 Truth and Justice We Are Robin World’s Finest Young Justice Vol. 2 (There are more. Assume anything with Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Terry McGinnis, and Conner Kent has been read)

Cartoons: Teen Titans (Most of which when I was younger, but have rewatched a fair bit) Young Justice Seasons 1 & 2, 6 episodes into season 3

Movies: Batman Unlimited: Animal Instinct Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem Batman: Bad Blood Batman: Under the Red Hood Justice League Justice League vs. Teen Titans Shazam! Son of Batman Teen Titans: The Judas Contract The Losers Wonder Woman

Series: Titans Seasons 1 & 2, 2 episodes into season 3

Video Games: Arkham Knight Gotham Knights

[harveydentfanpage]

Harvey Dent, also known as Two-face, Anarky #8, 1999.

Written by Alan Grant

Illustrated by Norm Breyfogle

[ifjgh]

HA HA HA!!!

After all these years, I’ve finally managed to draw Lonnie and have the end result look great! I’ll probably turn this into a proper piece at some point, but I currently have a very important Jamm comic to do.

AAAAH HA HA HA!

[countessbatman]

Old man yells at superheroes

[lonniemachin]

what's up kyleheads

[sonofapunk]

Anarky (1999) # 5 // Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

[distort-opia]

I remember that you talked about Joker's humanity few days ago and mentioned that two stories in which Joker was nice to kids. Makes me wonder, what father Joker would be in your opinion? If he had kids after his chemic bath and knew about their exist, do you think he would be want participate in raising them? Or at least sometimes sent them gifts or took them to a amusement park or something? Do you think he could hurt or kill them, or this small part of "good" in the Joker would stop him? I love your analyses, by the way and I will be eternal grateful for your reblog of my post about Jack Napier from "Tales From the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Hush", it means the world to me <3

Well. Two stories in which he's a little nice to kids don't really equal him liking them. Joker's moments of humanity are the exception, not the rule.

I will put the rest under the cut because there'll be mentions of child abuse and murder (warning for that). Because... yeah, this is Joker after all.

Canonically, he's killed a teenager (Jason Todd), and the way he handled babies in No Man's Land doesn't really indicate... caring. Pretty sure he's blown up schools or let out Joker gas in places where children were present, and he's indirectly put the lives of children in danger more than once by taking hostages (most recently in Batman: Fortress #1).

Also, this pretty much happened -- Joker finding out he had a kid after his chemical bath. The whole thing is a bit of a mess; in spirit, Anarky isn't actually Joker's son, and the writers intended to reveal this information all along. However, they didn't manage to actually write this in, so... technically, as it stands, Anarky (or Lonnie Machin) is Joker's son? I don't even know. I'm pretty sure though that we're all thinking he isn't, and God knows what New 52 and Rebirth mean for the character's continuity. However, the existence of Anarky does offer us an glimpse into how Joker would react to this scenario in Anarky (1999) #8, if you are interested. Joker clearly doesn't believe that he's got a son. But then he changes his tune, admitting the possibility and manipulating Anarky to make use of his way of escaping Arkham. But when Anarky keeps trying to stop him and other rogues from killing, Joker shoots Anarky without hesitation.

If he found out about a potential offspring of his who wasn't an adult (maybe Lucy Quinzel in the Injustice universe), but still a child... I think it'd depend a lot on the child. If Joker related or not. Because, outside of moments in which he's been forced into sanity by external circumstances, Joker only shows a more humane side to individuals he empathizes with; and in the case of those two stories I mentioned in that previous ask, we're talking about a psychopathic child and a child who's been abused by their parents (things he can relate to). So, if this child of his was also more on the sociopathic, wishing-for-violence, chaotic and troublemaker side, I think there's a chance Joker would steal the kid away and mold them into another version of himself (similar to what he tried with Tim Drake in Batman Beyond's Return of the Joker, or what he tried with 'Ric' Grayson while his memory was gone). He might care, and he might take the kid out on all sorts of activities... but they'd be blowing-up-buildings and murdering activities. So that child would turn out very traumatized, I feel. In general, Joker would have a 'you have to prove yourself worthy of being my child' attitude, and sadly I do think he could kill the kid if they didn't manage to live up to that.

The one kid he wouldn't be able to kill is his son, but the one from before the chemical bath (if the TKJ origin is taken as true). (Batman: Three Jokers has both him and Jeannie alive, so. Sigh. As I said elsewhere, I fully expect DC to bring this up again at some point and in a very badly written way.) But, if Joker were to be confronted with the child he had with Jeannie -- the one he thought dead alongside her, a child that's part of the very trauma that led to him becoming Joker in the first place... that'd be very interesting. It might undo him. (It'd be like someone bringing Bruce's parents back to life and throwing them in his arms.) Joker's whole thing is that nothing matters and that life is absurd; but this would be someone to fight for. If he got his family back, that'd contradict the whole thesis of the Joker persona. Man, it could be really cool to read how he'd handle it, if it just were written well. He'd have such a complex choice to make regarding who he'll be, moving forward. Grr.

I'm sorry for being a bummer! Joker in the comics is especially brutal, and it can't really be swept under the rug. But thank you for the ask, and I'm really glad you're appreciating my analyses! Reblogging that post was my pleasure and nothing to thank me for, I loved finding out about another incarnation of Batman and Joker. Take care <3 <3

[zahri-melitor]

Ok summary of recent reading as I’ve been hopping around and trying to get to various things I own while also crossing some stuff off my long list:-

Anarky 1999

Underworld Unleashed (main story and 4 one-shots)

DC One Million (practically everything)

Started Huntress 1989

Billy Batson & the Magic of Shazam #1-6

Saga volumes 3 & 4

Wonder Woman Historia

Current plan of attack (until I get derailed again):

More Huntress 1989

JLA Tower of Babel

So JLA/Titans comes immediately before Titans, yes? I’m sort of interested now after seeing Roy trying to pick a team back up in DC One Million to read this in the “coalescing attempts before the title starts” way

More Billy Batson & the Magic of Shazam

Batwoman: To Drown the World (#6-11)

[radio-charlie]

Saw somebody linking to this cool-looking Indonesian anarchist publication on another platform. Looks like its only available in print, dropping it here in case any of u want to and can get it

[wqintraining]

Outside of the batfam, what are some good DC comic runs?

Impulse Young Justice (1998) Every Pre-2004 Legion of Super Heroes run Booster Gold (2007) New Super-Man Villains United/Secret Six (2006)/Secret Six (2008) Waid's Flash Justice League International (1987) Sandman Green Lanterns Anarky (1997) Starman (1994) Blue Beetle (2006) The Titans (1999) Teen Titans (1996) And many more