I just got done watching the newest joker movie, you know the one from 2019. I'm late as always cause I'm not the kind of guy that runs to the theaters to see constant remakes of characters, themes, and plots. Sure the directors and script writers added new twists and had intesting dialogue and could carry a story and keep a fan base interested. Then again halfway through the film your like, this Joker is not a super villian, he is not worth all the challenges he posed for Batman, or the JLA..etc. You are almost asked from the directors point of view to fill bad for the guy. He was a street performer beaten up by kids, turned rouge cause 'no one took the time to listen, to his ramblings.'

Anyway towards the end of the film I'm made to ask myself how an Arkham escapee becomes the Joker of Dark Knight, that had the best opening of a movie in the last 12 years. A film that sparked nationwide controversy and is attributed to the Colorado Theater stabbings of that year and nearly banned from airing after the premier debut?

This new movie was dialed down a lot, I'm sure because of the impending association between real life violence and that produced by creatives like myself and the DCuniverse, Marvel, and Image.

(The Dream Weaver, mind you is not to spark people to induce crime, but to question the relevance of right and wrong.)

Anyway, we create these stories to spark the conversation, and because the question is asked, there is an analyzation of the mental state of the writers and actors, and crew of the production.

Many times I'm questioned or supported for my illustrations of the naked form and my only response has much of the same cadence as the song found at the end of the movie The Joker, 'That's Life.'

That is really what writers and dreamers are looking to share. Their own lives and or thoughts on life.

There is a lot of talk lately about the mental health of Americans after the spread of Covid and the requirements placed on people that can't work. It's is pondered by many, what is worth striving for and how to make the world a better place.

As a kid I loved the Joker, because he knew how to cut Batman down with words and a good joke. I mean after the Joker let Batman have it, he'd disappear or regroup and the Joker never laid a hand on him. Always had someone blow him out of prison and he was always in control of a chaotic situation. All of this praise of the Joker may have you believe that I idolize or romanticize criminality and that's far from the truth.

When the Joker is being held over a ledge by Batman and his death is impending and he suggests the hero is no better than him if he kills him for his crimes, we all know there is truth in the sentiment, have to regroup and hold to the righteous indignation that set us on the path to end his brand of evil, which in most cases was in response to another kind of evil, be it corporate, civil, or just to stop some bully from picking on him in the subway of a city that was evil and corrupt long before he came around.

Oh yeah the conversation gets deep and that's why I loved the Joker.

I have other reasons for my ability to turn the clown into Robinhood, or V-for-Vendetta, but Harlequinn does a better job of illustrating a love for Mr. J, than I ever could.

(Back to my own creation of The Dream Weaver...he is a complex character and his complexity I am hoping to shape in the story of 'Bad Guy' in which he is in love with a prostitute. A married one at that.

A guy looking to do right in a world filled with Cannibals, Looter, Gangs, University professors that take the minds of young people and pound them to mush, to everyday city thugs, that see this nice guy with a woman and because he chooses to love her publiclally dispite, her said occupation, and would kill for her just to have a few nights alone in peace, and can't hold her heart because she has taught herself not to love or that the idea of love is fantasy and money is the only thing that can make her happy; and instead of seeking to pay her, loves her, he is the 'Bad Guy.' This complexity is sparked by the rational of 'by any means nesscary.' Later contributed to hiw the Dream Weaver feels about his child, his child's mother, and just the world engeneral.

A lot of that came from my love of The Joker, Batman, and the DC universe.)