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The next issue begins at the funeral of Holly Shancoe, the wife of a policeman who the Joker's talked into committing suicide. Where Detective Shancoe's best friend is talking to Lt. Jim Gordon, where the friend reveals that Shancoe has fallen off the wagon and is back on the booze. They show frustration that they had to let the Joker have his phonecall, due to it being the Joker's right.

Later, the Joker is being transported to the courthouse, when he steals a pen from one of the guards, stabs him in the jugular and somehow manages to hijack the prisoner van (the other guy is a rookie that the Joker ties up). Mr J then starts driving through the city trying to run over folk, but the timely intervention of Batman landing on the van and using his cables to launch people out of the way of the truck prevent the Joker from running over anyone.

The other guard IS killed though, when he ended up being thrown through the windscreen when the Joker to a violent stop in front of the courthouse he was due to appear at anyway, right in front of a stunned crowd of journalists in a pre-trial interview with Harvey Dent.

Now for the actual trial. It begins with the Joker entering his plea,








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Date: 2011-05-19 11:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] venatosapiens
You know, Joker really, really doesn't work in Court settings. Any time you drag the character into a court room it ends up underscoring how ridiculous the whole game is. If you want to play the "in/out" game at Arkham, that works, as long as you don't look too hard at it. But seeing the Joker in daylight, in a court room, where the jury shouldn't even have to hear the evidence...that kills suspension of disbelief for me.

The Joker always exists outside the law, and when he's in a law context it just looks wrong.

Date: 2011-05-20 01:25 am (UTC)
baxter2814: clark/lois + steve/tony + bruce/selina + peter/mj + booster/ted = OTP (otp)
From: [personal profile] baxter2814
That's the exact reason why I like it when Gotham is portrayed as really corrupt. It's how lawlessness can work inside of society.

Date: 2011-05-20 05:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] blunderbuss
That's because the Joker himself is almost a living avatar for the massive flaw in, well, Joker Immunity. You have a guy who is ridiculously, appallingly, disgustingly depraved and yet the world he lives in constantly allows him to skip in and out of jail killing as he pleases. Putting him in court just bring it front and centre and magnifies it a few thousand times.

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