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WARNING : This article hold SPOILERS forDoomsday Clock#2
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Doomsday Clockmay have just made Alan Moore’sThe Killing JokeDC canon all over again . The lifelike novel that provide an origin story for The Joker - or , at least one of a ' multiple choice ' - had antecedently been leaned on to inform characters like Barbara Gordon a.k.a . Batgirl . But with the arrival of theWatchmenstars into DC ’s Universe , it looks like Geoff Johns and artists Gary Frank are up to even more changes .
It ’s severe to say for certain because the unexampled evidence come in the form of overt Easter Eggs inDoomsday Clock#2 . Small details , sure , but in a account book alreadydropping some major wind about The Joker , they ca n’t be overlooked . It ’s also meet that in thisfull - blow sequel to Alan Moore’sWatchmen , DC ’s leading visionary is folding Moore’sothermajor DC part into a new mythology … irrespective of your thoughts on the estimation on principle . One thing ’s for sure : the poor boy ofWatchmenare now walking through Joker ’s backyard in more ways than one .
By now it ’s safe to bear most risible fans have a working knowledge ofThe Killing Joke , even if they ’ve yet to read Alan Moore and Brian Bolland ’s story for themselves . It ’s notable for two reasons . First , it explained how an upstart comic got flim-flam into crime as a ' Red Hood ' patsy , lose his significant married woman , and was dip in chemicals to become The Joker . And second , it put Barbara Gordon in a wheelchair when Joker shot her in the spine ( beginning her late career as Oracle ) . A story detail that returned in Batgirl’sRebirthafter the New 52 raised questions .
Still , private books have had spotty records of what the writing teams consider canon , and what a larger mythology can provide . Now , thanks to the fix of theWatchmencrash - landing into DC ’s Universe , it appearsKilling Jokeis here to detain ( for a while , at least ) . Take a flavor for yourselves :
On the left field is the entertainment green as prove inThe Killing Joke , a location which becomes primal to the final human activity . On the rightfulness is the internet site at which Rorschach , Ozymandias , and their novel recruit crash upon entering DC ’s reality . And even if Geoff Johns explained the similarity toCBRby enunciate only that"The Joker will play a part in the story . That ’s all I ’ll really say,“it ’s hard to miss the obvious confirmation . The ferris steering wheel alone is hard to summon as evidence , but combined with the helical column , the ' House of Fun ' seen in other panels , and even the purplish elephant upon which Joker go away the owner ’s smile remains , it ’s a peer .
Rorschach and Ozymandias spend little time in the green beforeheading into Gotham City in hunting of Dr. Manhattan , but the ship remaining crashed means it ’s potential they will return . But the betting odds of Joker actuallybeing theremay be svelte . Johns confirms that Joker will"play a role"but for now , themystery ofRebirth ’s Three Jokersseems a more likely reference . And of track , there ’s also our theory on which ofthe originalWatchmenbecomes Jokerbefore long .
For now though , the localisation ofThe Killing Jokehas been confirmed to exist in the DC Universe place - Rebirth . intend that ' source write up ' for The Joker is back in the canon … as much as it could ever be trust , of course .
Doomsday Clock#2is available now .
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Source : CBR
