I love the Joker, I mean who doesn't. He's clever, we know very little about his past, it seems that he knows even less about it, but what he cares about is there here and now, the future. The Joker is insane, or maybe he's the most sane person in the world and the rest of us don't understand priorities. But he's a villain and this because he doesn't do the right things, but in his wrong doing we wish him well. In fact if I had to take a pole I would say that he would rank right at the top if not the number one villain we would want to actually win. And why not? I mean why can't we put a villain on a pedestal and let them win? I know many of you are reading this and saying, "we've let villains win and then it just keeps going." But why can't we have a masked character feel finality, feel as if they have what they need to quit. Now there's something there. Why the Joker? Because he can win, he can come close enough to the finish line. The only reason he continues is because he wants more of a challenge, because he wants another chance to loose. That I believe is because he has already won, in his mind the game is just trying to see how many ways he can "not win".  
Yet our love for comics and the stories behind them would never see the dark room where the well dressed Bruce Wayne would step in just to put his cuff links in his shirt. He glides over to the table and sets down his glass filled with scotch, looks down, and sees a knife at his throat. (And you know it would be a knife) For a moment he would try to fight the joker off but the link was already half way in his shirt and his hand would catch itself throwing the bat man off balance. Both fall to the floor and roll around fighting, its a wonder neither is stuck with a knife, and then triumph when we see Joker is on top with his knife at the Bats throat grazing the skin covering his Adams apple. Bruce stares unafraid into the Jokers eyes. The Joker, smiling, brings his face toward his enemy and whispers in his ear, "The jokes on you.." And then he walks away leaving the knife laying on the ground. 
 
A fitting end?

Historically there was a time when Marvel and DC tried to come together to bring us a brilliant clever connection of their worlds. Honestly if you read the Amalgam comics you may agree with me and say that totally failed. I do think, however, that it may be time for them to try again.  Why? Well there are a lot of things that bring me to this conclusion. Right now our characters, in both universes, have grown much more like one another. I now you may not see it but think about how bright and cheerful we were when we were young kids and we were only watching the characters on the television instead of reading their developments in comics. We were amateurs, and I would say that is exactly what Amalgam was. But it was preparing for something, something that never came. They left off after nine comics, and they probably should have, but now they have a chance to enthrall us with a different view of the comics. 
I think they have a chance now to bring both worlds in together without making us hate the fact that they are one world. Not Amalgam, mind you, but something new. Lets start with a different universe, one that no one knows anything about. Start with the dark, but cause everything starts and ends in the dark. That's nature. Then there is a light, something, some spark of anything, that would start the story. And instead of bringing characters together  as already developed people lets try developing them. Before you shoot down this whole idea I just want you to ask yourself a few questions. What would Superman be like if he worked for the same newspaper as Peter Parker? How would Aquaman and Namor get along? How differently would the mutant world have developed if the Joker had been part of it? Just an idea, just a thought, but a whole new world to explore. 
 
-Dreu

I like to start all things with an Ender. No? Yeah a bit cheesy. But I don't really know what this blog is all about. I s'pose I'll leak into a bit why I'm kinda a total nerd without seeping into all the heroism of being the guy who announces it to every one. Still I would say I'm pretty bold in all of the things that I'm interested in just because I know that every one else is also interested in the same things that I am. At least one of the same things. This site thought provides for me a very liberal amount of people who seem to be interested in the largest collection of artistic development between characters, time, events, and well different artists. Which is of course why I like to begin with an Ender. I think because he envelops everything a comic book hero should without the pictures. Just his name for instance, Andrew, then given the name Ender by his brother. He then becomes the Ender of a way while his brother controls the circuit of political development in the world. Strange how its Ender's Game but its really Peter who is the game master. I'll end here.  
 
-Dreu