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This week’sBatman#98 , by author James Tynion IV and artist Jorge Jimenez , subtly suggests the Joker never truly got overHarley Quinn . The Clown Prince of Crime has only ever had one love in his lifespan ; he ’s obsessed with Batman , and that has caused him to become a twisted mirror of the Dark Knight . Where Batman stands for social club , the Joker is a symbol of nothing but chaos and anarchy .
Batman has his Bat - Family around him , and as a result , the Joker likes to cumulate mass around himself as well . Over the years , the Joker has demonstrated time and again that he does n’t really love them at all . That was true in the comics , where the Joker and Harley were hardly # RelationshipGoals , and it was pretty clear in the DCEU as well . There , Harley Quinn was adorned with a tattoodeclaring herself " Property of Joker . " It ’s a perfect illustration of the Joker ’s mindset ; she is his property , his possession , to be care for however he wish .
The Joker appears to have move on in the comics;he has a new lady friend now , Punchline , who has enjoyed doing her stratum best to kill Harley Quinn - even slitting her pharynx . But this week’sBatman#98 examine creative person Jorge Jimenez subtly suggest Punchline has been inscribe purely to get at Harley . Just as the Joker mirror Batman , so he opt Punchline to be the perverted mirror image of Harley Quinn . Jimenez ’s artwork deliberately place the two against one another in precisely that format , during an intense conversation in which Harley Quinn psycho - analyzes her ex-wife .
Harley Quinn does n’t realize it , but the very beingness of Punchline is grounds she has become more important than ever to the Joker . She is the one who stupefy away , the woman who defied him and became her own woman , more than the self-command he believed her to be . Harley Quinn is the evidence the Joker ’s worldview is wrong , because she is the proof he is not the center of the universe , and all Gotham does not orb around him . That is why the Joker continually attempts to depict her back into his life story in some course or another , but she has continually resisted that . Now he has gone one step further , demonstrate his frustration toward Harley by creating this mirror image of her .
This subtly reinterprets the character of Punchline . She is n’t a unexampled Batman baddie at all ; she is a new Harley Quinn villain . The narrative structure of the current " Joker War " event sustain this asseveration because Punchline has only been shown tangling with Harley Quinn . The one time she comes face - to - facial expression with Batman , inBatman#98 , she ’s qualify of with absurd informality . He has no interestingness in wasting time with a twisted mirror of Harley Quinn when he has the Joker to trade with .
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