The now NEW Official DC Stupid Questions thread: Didio Headaches - Part 1

[TheCorpulent1]

Does anyone know of a comic where the Joker either doesn't remember who he is or is telling one of the many different versions of his origin, and his skin is normal, but he smears white makeup on himself before going off to do some crime? I remember reading that comic when I was younger--I think it was probably from the '80s or early '90s at the latest--but I can't for the life of me remember where it was or what it was about beyond that one panel of him covering himself in white makeup to look like the Joker we all know.

 

[Spike_x1]

Doesn't look like it, Corp.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Curses!

 

[Anubis]

I think maybe you dreamed it.

Like that time I dreamed they made a Fallout: Motown.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe. Or maybe it exists but it'll be one of those things that haunts me for years.

 

[Anubis]

Probably.

 

[Spike_x1]

Fingers crossed.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Same thing happened to me with Turbo Teen. I spent years trying to remember what the f*** that cartoon I used to watch as a kid with the teenager who turned into a sports car was called. Years.

 

[Anubis]

Heh, I loved that Robot Chicken bit they did on Turbo Teen.

 

[Hiddensymbols]

Hey Corp, I think i read the same one in some trade, where joker thought batman had died so he became this normal guy and met a girl and all this stuff but when he found out bats was still alive he returned to being the joker. He went by the name Joe Kerr, sound right?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Might've been. Some quick research says he went by that name in Legends of the Dark Knight #65-68. I'll have to check those issues out...

 

[Hiddensymbols]

Kool, well good luck

 

[Swordmaster]

That would also be collected in the Batman: Going Sane trade by J.M. Dematteis.

 

[Hiddensymbols]

thats where i read it i believe

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Turns out that wasn't it. But thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Hiddensymbols]

you are welcome

 

[Lord]

What was the first issue in Alan Moore's run where it was revealed that his version of the swamp thing was a monster instead of a human turned monster?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Technically, it was the second issue of his run. Most people know it as the first, though, since his first issue, for whatever reason, was excluded from the paperback trades. I think they included it in the HC re-releases, but yeah, technically it was the second.

 

[Lord]

I was reading that one but they mentioned the human turned monster Swamp thing so i was wondering where the monster Swamp THing appeared.
Is there any kind of twist for that to happen?
Because until now it seems like the only Swamp thing is Alec Holland

 

[Tron Bonne]

Well, technically, the monster Swamp Thing was always around. Alec Holland was never actually the Swamp Thing, it just had the memories and personality of Holland imprinted onto. But if you're asking where that twist was first shown, yeah, it was the second issue of Moore's run.

 

[Lord]

Then Holland is dead and Swamp Thing is a monster that thinks he's human, that seems very interesting

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yeah, basically. Not entirely sure how it is now in the new relaunch (and I didn't read Brightest Day or the Aftermath thing), but that's basically how Moore set up his classic run.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

So Batman 1, Batman & Robin 1 and Nightwing 1, are these meant to take place together? What I mean is, do events in Batman and Nightwing happen together or are all these stories not connected to each other? I don't get the timelines in which these stories take place.

 

[Anubis]

It's all happening in the present. (Supposedly) But nothing is happening at the same time.

That's how multiple books work.

In one book, Batman is taking on, I don't know the Joker. In another he's taking on the Royal Flush Gang. They aren't happening at the same time. Maybe the Joker fight is happening a week before the RFG fight, maybe a month after. Point is, it's not happening at the same time.

Seeing as Batman seems to suggest that Bats and the gang have been back for awhile, and Nightwing suggest that he just kinda started going out as Nightwing again a few days before the issue takes place, you can assume that maybe Nightwing takes place before this current issue of Batman. Or maybe not.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

What confuses me is the year Nightwing spent as Batman. So Batman's been public knowledge and had 4 Robins over just 5 years, and now one of those years was Dick in the batsuit?

Yeah, basically. Not entirely sure how it is now in the new relaunch (and I didn't read Brightest Day or the Aftermath thing), but that's basically how Moore set up his classic run.

Swamp Thing is dead and Holland is back trying to live a normal life even though he has the Swamp Thing's memories. It's literally a total inversion of Moore's setup, which makes it pretty interesting so far.