The Joker, a major villain in the DC comics universe universally known as the archenemy of legendary superhero Batman, becomes pregnant and gives birth in the latest issue of his spinoff comic book series.
The fourth issue of “The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing” was among the first released comic books of 2023 and features the “Clown Prince of Crime” on “his most bizarre caper yet,” DC Comics says in a summary on its website.
The new series comes from “the twisted minds” of creators Matthew Rosenberg and Carmine Di Giandomenico, who started “The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing” in 2022. The newest issue in the series, released on Jan. 4, is titled “Knocked Upside Down!”
For some backstory in the series, The Joker previously attempted to court the super-heroine “Zatanna” into starting a family with him. Zatanna is a magic user famous for bringing spells into existence by speaking backwards. She, upset by The Joker’s attempt, cast a spell on him to make certain that “no one else will ever have [the Joker’s] baby.”
However, in true comic book fashion, the magic spell twisted itself around to mean that the Joker, himself, would be having his own baby, something he discovered after waking up the following day.
The Joker enlists medical aid from another DC supervillain by the name of “Doctor Phosphorous.” The doctor, despite his expertise in medicine, admits to The Joker that he doesn’t “even know where the baby is going to come out from down here.”
That mystery is quickly solved as The Joker gives “birth” by puking up brown goo in the next few panels of the comic. The sludge then forms into a young boy who looks very much like his father. One panel shows both The Joker and the newborn staring at each other, thinking “he’s so handsome” in a shared thought bubble.
If the storyline continues down the path of The Joker actually getting pregnant and giving birth to his own son, then DC comics just got one of its more unique character origin stories through this series, and that’s saying something. (SOURCE)
