Batman, explaining The Batman Who Laughs to his sidekicks: So, essentially, he's an amalgam of me and the Joker, however, because he's from the Dark Multiverse and thus actually an embodiment of the worst of my fears about myself, my capabilities, and the capabilities of the Joker, he's not actually bound by the same physical and mental limitations of either me or the Joker. In fact, he's not even bound by the same laws of physics as we are, and his continued presence in this universe--
Jason, who stopped listening .00002 seconds after hearing 'an amalgam of me and the Joker':
So I got in to bookbinding a few months ago and finally made a collection of all my batjokes stories. Since money is tight I told myself to stick to only supplies I already owned, so while these wouldn’t be my first choice of endpapers for this material, I still think the skulls are cute. The cover art was hand foiled with a foil quill pen and took a little under 3.5 hours.
Huge shoutout to everyone in the Renegade server for lending me their opinions and advice while I designed this little chonker 🙏🏻💜
“You can call him crazy, excitable, feral, overexcellent, etc. But never forget that Bruce once went insane after locking himself in a simulator that emulated Robin Dick Grayson’s joy.” hey in ur last post which was excellent btw u referenced this and i was just wondering which comic ur talking about bc i would love to read it ahahah thanks
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It's from The Batman Who Laughs comic and I don't want to spoil anything but a quick backstory because it gets confusing. So Bruce is fighting the Batman Who Laughs because he came over to prime earth and Earth-22 Batman is just slaughtering people in the worst way possible.
My specific comment is in Issue 4 where he's like "I need to put myself in the shoes of my enemy so I can understand them." SO he creates this machine and he knows that Earth-22 Batman was driven mad due to happiness or something so he basically goes "who are the happiest people I know? Children. Dick was the happiest child, all of them were, but Dick specifically. So now I'm going to see the world through his eyes to understand Batman-22."
The wildest part is, that when Earth-22 and normal Batman Bruce face off, the evil Batman actually name calls Dick when talking to Bruce.
So for obvious reasons, I’ve been digging into the comics again to get a look at the Batman Who Laughs being weird and horny about Superman. Even when he’s busy killing his Clark, TBWL can’t help but muse on what they might be able to accomplish together:
Once he popped back into ‘our’ world, he starts infecting superheroes with Joker toxin. But he’s got one hero in particular in mind:
(These panels are totally not an excuse to post Clark looking beaten up and pretty.) So Clark decided to dose himself with Joker toxin in hopes of tricking TBWL into spilling his big evil plans. Bruce’s thoughts on the matter?
Heh. TBWL immediately clocks that Superman isn’t actually under his control, but that doesn’t mean he’s not glad to see his BFF:
TBWL really enjoys 1.) being a smug dick and 2.) watching Clark smash things:
But eventually, the game is up. TBWL’s thoughts on everyone’s performance?
Jesus Christ, Bruce. (All panels taken from Batman/Superman 2019, Issues 1-3)