Warning! Comprises spoilers for The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #10!One line from one of many Pink Hood’s worst enemies gives a brand new perspective on the anti-hero and the Bat-Household. A easy insult from the Clown Prince of Crime gives a brand new of Jason Todd.
In The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #10 by Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine Di Giandomenico, a battle in Gotham is heating up. The DC Universe’s two Jokers are at battle with each other and use their gangs to wreak havoc within the metropolis. In the meantime, one of many Jokers is digging deep into the thriller of the second Joker’s origin, interrogating Black Masks for any data he has.
As Joker and Black Masks speak issues out, Pink Hood finds the Ventriloquist, one villain working for Gotham’s Joker and steals his cellphone to contact his boss. Joker wraps up his dialog with Black Masks and calls Ventriloquist, solely to get the Pink Hood, who ominously warns Joker that he’s coming for him. With the Pink Hood and one other Joker after him, Joker contacts certainly one of his underlings and informs him that the “solely enjoyable member of the Bat-Household” might have murdered Ventriloquist and that Joker desires his crew again at their base pronto.
With a couple of Joker operating round, Pink Hood has been operating himself ragged to get his pound of flesh off not less than certainly one of them. When the Joker confronted off with certainly one of his copycats (which was really Clayface in disguise), Jason tracked down and shot the Clayface impostor. Nonetheless, he shortly realized that every one wasn’t because it appeared and that the Joker he hated was nonetheless operating round. Jason’s made it clear that when he finds the true Joker, he’s going to make the villain pay for the whole lot he’s completed.
When Joker calls Pink Hood the ‘enjoyable’ member of the Bat-Household, it’s apparent that he means Jason is the one hero on the crew prepared to kill. And he’s completely proper. Regardless of doing his finest to depart his murderous methods behind him, Jason has been backsliding currently. After taking pictures the disguised Clayface, Pink Hood has been extra decided than ever to seek out the Joker and put him down for good. For higher or worse, Joker is aware of Jason and he is aware of that Pink Hood is the one one within the Bat-Household with the identical ‘wildcard’ issue as him.
Joker thrives on chaos and unpredictability. And if any particular person is unpredictable within the Bat-Household, it’s Jason. Pink Hood has gone forwards and backwards in his strategies, and few folks know what he’s going to do at any given second. Regardless of Jason making a vow to kill the Joker, the villain appreciates and even likes the chaos that Pink Hood brings to normally predictable Gotham heroes. It’s a bit unsettling although, as a result of Jason hates Joker with each fiber of his being. However the villain sarcastically appreciates the havoc Pink Hood brings to the desk. The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #10 is on sale now.