The Joker is allergic to shellfish - and worried about some other stuff too
The second and final issue of DC's Knight Terrors: The Joker miniseries, published this week, delves deeper into the fantasy world conjured by new supervillain Insomnia.
In case you've not been keeping up with the Knight Terrors event, the DC world has been hit with a "Nightmare Wave" which has plunged all the heroes and villains into terrifying fantasy lands built around their worst fears - and even characters like the Joker are struggling to make sense of their new environment.
The series raises the question of what exactly the Clown Prince of Crime is afraid of. The conclusion of the two-issue arc, by writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Stefano Raffaele, delivers a muddled answer, but does so in an entertaining and broadly amusing fashion. Spoilers from here on in...
Last month's #1 seemed to suggest that, in some ways, the Joker fears his own success - the joy of his twisted relationship with Batman is, in part, its endless nature. When he succeeds in actually 'killing' the Dark Knight (remember, this is simply a fantasy with no wider ramifications for actual Batman) he derives no joy from it. The game is over and it's ambiguous if he was even responsible for Bats' death - he slipped and fell off a roof. Very unsatisfying.
The Joker then grows increasingly listless. Sure, he's got the rotting corpse of his ultimate foe hanging up in his closet, but what's the point of being a supervillain if you don't have a mortal enemy to test you? One of his goons suggests killing Superman next, but that will never happen. Gaggy suggests executing Green Arrow instead, which simply elicits a bored "Yeah. I guess we could kill him. Whatever."
The Joker's life grows increasingly mundane. Eventually he gets an office job (working
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