Manga joker

) and illustrated by Keisuke Gotou, this manga finds Batman transformed into a baby following an accidental fall into the same vat of chemicals that turned the Joker into his evil self.Immediately after accident, the Joker finds himself lost without his arch-nemesis and takes it upon himself to raise baby Bruce Wayne. However, the Joker finds fatherhood to be a lot more difficult than he initially thought.

It’s No Joke: The Joker’s Raising Baby Batman in His New Manga Series

Got your attention, didn’t I? We’ve seen Batman and the Joker’s rivalry from so many angles over the past 83 years, but this is a new one and it all plays out in , a DC manga series currently available to read in print and on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE.

is a collaboration between DC and the Japanese publisher Kodansha. If you’re familiar with manga, then you know that the sensibilities are different than comics published in the US. The pacing is different, and often the stories are based around a wacky premise like a character waking up as a vending machine, or a soap opera starring dentists. Or in this case, the Joker struggling to be a single father.

over the years, and this story challenges our perceptions of it in ways I never thought were possible. Although, to be fair, I never imagined Batman and the Joker would be in a situation like this. This manga supports the idea that the Joker can’t exist without Batman. That’s the exact reason he’s raising the Tyke Knight—it’s for his own existence. If the baby doesn’t grow up to become Batman, then the Joker has no purpose.