(From Batman: "The Killing Joke" / DC Comics)
Today's Washington Post Article on The Joker from The Batman franchise is exactly on point for my post yesterday on the representation of heroes and the psychology behind making a hero. This article takes a look at how the hero's enemy, the villian, oftentimes is just as important as the hero himself. Also, it takes a look at the psychology that is important in developing both the hero and villians/arch enemies.
~LT
The Joker's Onto Us
What Does It All Mean When Batman's Enemy Is More Interesting Than the Dark Knight Himself?
By Hank Stuever
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 13, 2008; Page M01
"I 've been thinking lately. About you and me. About what's going to happen to us, in the end. We're going to kill each other, aren't we?"
"That's the Batman talking, a couple of decades ago, to his archnemesis, the Joker, in the opening pages of a graphic novel that changed both of them and made their relationship more wonderfully sick.
"Usually the Joker is the one who articulates the nutty codependence here. Almost every time they meet, Joker has the gall to remind Batman that they are each nothing without the other, and he usually brings this up as Batman is kicking the holy-moley-frijoles out of him, in an almost erotic moment of sadomasochism. Joker loves it, laughing his head off with each punch. (And Batman loves it, yes?) The world doesn't quite understand, even though these two have been going at it for 68 years..."
Full article at: www.washingtonpost.com
On the web, this is very timely to the discussion of comics to films, heroes, anti heroes, etc:
"Celebrate, contemplate, eviscerate and pontificate on cartoons at Comimc Riffs, a new blog that kicks off Monday with a five-day countdown to Friday's release of "The Dark Knight." Read it at washingtonpost.com/comicriffs.
Also see photos of the Joker through the years at www.washingtonpost.com/gallery2008
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