Geek take two (Batman and Joker Tangent)

I know that it's fashionable nowadays to be into the Joker and into Batman.  And I honestly applaud those geeks and geekettes that are chasing their bliss in the colored pages of the Dark Knight, or even those that just find their joy in the recent plethora of films that put the Bat-Fam and their Rouges Gallery on the Silver Screen.

I'm honestly not trying to hipsterize my interest in the Deranged/Dynamic Duo.  But they have fascinated me for the majority of my life. 

I even have the two of them locked in duality inked onto my forearm forever: 

In 1989 Tim Burton brought to life the Clown Prince of Crime in the form of the amazing and talented Jack Nicholson.  Giving my generation their first live action glimpse at both Batman as well as the Joker in this film, I was hooked.  Point blank, I was hooked. 

I walked around for months quoting "Do you want to dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?" without even really knowing what that meant, let alone that Burton had bastardized one of the most compelling origin stories in the DC vault by shoehorning Joker as the one to kill Bruce Wayne's parents way back when. 

And no, I'm not going to say or disclaim "spoiler alert" for stores that are decades old.  Get over it.

But there was something about Jack's Joker that sparked an interest in a young viking. . . the gleeful chaos, the laughing murder, the deadly jokes. . . I'm not really sure.  I do know though that since this was my first Joker he colored my vision of all Jokers yet to come!


More to come next time!