The Joker is in Arkham asylum silently watching a Tv screen outside his cell hanging from the wall... like fading static footage.. somewhat grainy, blurred footage of war-torn countries...

A "The Joker" comic one-shot...


The Joker:  ... sri lanka .. tamil the tiger.. a tiger rush ready to begin an ocean for tickety tickety tembo.. cry well a woman does the well in sri lanka.. rescue the tot... the tamil tigers are women-friendly org.. whatelse.. Syria is multi-fragmented Michael-Keaton esque multiplicity.. like a fragment puzzle-piece clone state.. multiple clone warring city-states make up Syria..

.. two agents dressed in black walk in..

agent #1: ... yes.. he's still their.. counting time..

the Joker: .. tickey tickey tembo .. cosa nostra rembo.. rural Italy is twentieth century Italy.. where is Italy now.. like a brooke shields country Italy is.. whaduabout turkey.. aughh AUGHHH ahhah no no.. turkey is a .. howabout Greece Kosovo republic..

agent #2: .. ahh.. mr jokes..

the joker:  aguuhhh.. wait.. grexit grexit..

agent #2:  sorry sorry..

agent #1:  wait wait.. give him time...

the joker:  no probs chaps.. always be polite the illuminatti police .. grexit is a currency republic.. geddin in out of da currency.. escaping the currency like a fire escape.. AHGHGHGHGHGHGH.....

agent #1:  sorry.. sorry.. easy their.. a lot of things still aren't you... somehow .. somehow..

the joker:   a lot of copycat jokers..

agent #2:  yeah.. an epidemic...

the joker:  Batman still rescued me after the cave collapsed.. he does that..

agent #2:  he'd like you to know you've rescued him more than time than he can count...

the joker:  he does that.. counts a lot...

agent #1: .. so.. like.. ahh here's the telepathic fax.. we thought we'd bring at least a page back to you.. hard to get the pages of telepathic joke text ahhh.. thru the bureaucracy..

the joker:  no probs gents...

agent #2:  .. so.. also.. here's a list of the number of lives you saved this week.. it numbers in the thousands.. thousands of lives you saved from an earthquake.. we're still looking for the cause.. before some nasty parties find it.. it was a black avalanche gaze earthquake.. a crawling abyss avalanche.. the earthquake was caused by a nietzschian gaze.. a gaze into the abyss of tartarus which recoiled into it's embryonic origins.. its embryonic beginnings.. an ocean embryo caused the avalanche..

the joker: .. I have an infinite compassion for this embryo... I still have caused a lot of deaths myself..

agent #1:  the number pales in comparison to the number of lives you've saved through your media political forecasting...

the joker:  .. ahh.. television .. heh.. diana media.. dianetics?..

agent #2:  wait?.. sorry.. that's rather eloquent..

the joker : .. yes - whispers softly to himself - diana medea .. diana medea..

agent #2:  yes .. yeah.. she's coming.. imen .. she's came.. already like .. she came already and went in a dream...

the joker:  I may.. know something about dream realities...

agent #1:  ... and auschwitz Tartarus's...

the joker:  - sadly - belbo diana kyle.. their was an az-bats too..

agent #2:  belbo diana kyle..

agent #1:  belbo diana kyle

the joker:  we have LOTS in common.. belbo diana and I.. we are both kyles..

agent #1:  yess.. aghhh... I think...

the joker:  aghhhh.. I might - with almost a tearfilled sorrow - have to save one life entire now...

agent #2:  we'll leave... you alone with your thoughts now.. they are many..

the joker:  always a pleasure to lunch with the illuminati police..





dialogue by Stephan daedeles...

pencils by David Finch...

inks by Dan Green...