Remember that time after Joker killed Jason Todd, he met with Ayatollah Khomeini and became the ambassador to Iran?
Remember that time after Joker killed Jason Todd, he met with Ayatollah Khomeini and became the ambassador to Iran?
Remember that time after Joker killed Jason Todd, he met with Ayatollah Khomeini and became the ambassador to Iran?
In that order?
Yes
The 80's were a strange time.
Op is part of the Death in the Family story
Why would the Joker betray America like this
because Batman wanted him dead and he needed a way for Batman to not kill him
>because Batman wanted him dead and he needed a way for Batman to not kill him
It's so refreshing to see a Batman story where Batman wants the Joker dead for murdering someone instead of being obsessive-compulsive about protecting him.
Because its funny.
I'm so glad Batman isn't this campy Adam West shit anymore
Yes, that is what people said about A Death in the Family.
No more sugar-shoes Robin. Just solo Batman, dealing with murder and geopolitics. Grown-up stuff.
so hes not an american criminal
You know, I'm starting to think that Denny O'Neil is a hack propped up by Batgays.
O'neil didnt write this?
He's the editor, he's supposed to slap the shit out of his writers for writing dumb shit like this.
ok halgay
>O'Neilgays when the poor black people are too stupid to defend themselves
>I'm no advice committee
This is the worst part. I can't imagine complaining this much without every offering a solution.
This Joker Iran plot never made any sense. Iran can give the Joker the title of UN representative all they want, other countries have no reason to accept it. And if America really feels they must respect his diplomatic immunity and can't arrest him, they can simply putting him on a plane back to Iran, they are under no obligation to let him remain in America, let alone speak at the UN.
Furthermore, so Iran wanted the Joker to kill everyone in the UN with laughing gas, but why? What would they get out of it? Sure, they killed a bunch of UN delegates of countries that are their enemies, but also of countries that are their allies, it would make them a pariah to everyone everywhere. And doing so means that every single country on Earth would now have no choice but to declare war on Iran, it's why no country has ever done anything this stupid.
Furthermore furthermore, why did they need to make an American infidel like the Joker their ambassador for this plan to work? Just buy the Joker's gas, and have someone else working for you that won't attract as much attention do the poisoning.
Jim Starlin was trying to do "commentary" on Iran Contra while clearly not understanding what it was actually about. He also seemed to have a real hateboner for diplomatic immunity given how he used it as a plot device in his Batman books 3 times, and each time he clearly showed he also didn't understand how diplomatic immunity works.
Your pic shows another level on which the Iran-Joker affair didn't make sense: that's a Gulf Arab headdress.
Iran is a theocracy and many kinds of Muslims wear some kind of headgear as a sort of badge of allegiance, but outside of an ayatollah or mullah's turban, it's not a thing for men in Shi'ism or greater Iran.
Post the panel of him in garb
>Joker hates nazis
>joins an Islamic caliphate that hates israelites
DChuds will defend this