While there’s a layer of irony here, for most readers, this scene isn’t funny in the laugh-out-loud sense. Instead, it perfectly reflects Joker’s idea of humor—manipulative, cruel ...

Joker is a film about the nervous breakdown ... it’s asking us to sympathize with a hyper-lonely and broken clown with a laughing disorder who seems to only care about one thing: To be seen ...

Inspired by the dark reimagining of the Caped Crusader in Tim Burton’s Batman films, Batman: The Animated Series proved that superhero cartoons weren’t just gaudy colors and cheesy villains.

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(SPOILERS) Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing chronicled the cross-country war between two of the (three?) Jokers currently running around the main DC Universe. The book began with one scrappy ...

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Joker was no longer scary because he was a ruthless criminal, but because he was an insane and unpredictable one. Writer Steve Englehart's arc "The Laughing Fish" was an iconic story that ...

One of the short stories inside The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing sees the titular supervillain fall under a magical curse, which gives him a swollen pregnancy belly. Eventually, the Joker ...