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Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Jokester: RIP, Funny Man


No, maybe he wasn't as well known as his evil counterpart.

Maybe he didn't have a "Ha Ha Hacienda."

Maybe he was just a throwaway "Countdown" character that Sean McKeever & Jamal Igle invested far too much wonderful writing and art to.

But he was somebody, dammit!

And now he's gone.


I don't know...

First Puppet Master dies, then Jokester. Now I received an e-mail that somebody died in the new issue of "Captain Carrot."

Stop this world, I want to get off!

(sniff)

Anyway...

Jokester, I have one thing to say to you. And that is:

GOODBYE, FUNNY MAN!

And...

Thanks...for the memories.

12 comments:

  1. I read Captain Carrot last night and can't remember any character death. (One death was referred to, but that happened a few years ago.)

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  2. The ONLY good thing to come out of Countdown was that Crime Society book, and then they kill the result.
    What the hell is wrong with DC?

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  3. Why is everyone assuming he's dead?

    One, they just introduced him. Two, they said Green Arrow was dead and I assume people know better now. Three, all we've seen is one panel of him getting shot.

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  4. I agree. The Joker comes back all the time; no reason the Jokester should be any different. It probably hit him in the rubber chicken.

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  5. Oh, one more thing about Captain Carrot: Fox and Crow! Yay!

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  6. so is the Jokester Duela Dent's real father?

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  7. Yep. Her mother is a villain named Three-Face.

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  8. Er, not a villain, since she's from Earth-3.

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  9. Three-face?

    That's stupid and awesome at the same time.

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  10. It's a woman with three-way split personality - two are aggressive and dominant while the third is the one that the Jokester originally met and fell in love with.

    She speaks in three different-colored speech balloons. ^_^

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  11. Oh, just tell me her name is Eve...

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  12. Oh, just tell me her name is Eve...

    It is!

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