FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for November 05, 2024

Jason can’t throw the ball any deeper than the grass he’s standing on.

Obviously no, The Joker wouldn’t laugh if Batman died… Unless he’s the one who did it!

Will Jason pass on that one?

Will there be a catch for Marcus?

The Joker will not be happy if Batman died because The Joker have psychological problems.

It cannot. We were promised free will. Which means praying to change any situation or outcome is useless as any intervention would circumvent free will

wasn’t the joker happy when he killed robin?

The Joker doesn’t want to kill Batman. If the Bat is dead, he can’t be made to suffer. Joker wants the Bat to break down and break his rules. The Bat knows this and acts accordingly. Remember always… Bruce Wayne is the mask, Batman is what’s real. And, as Batman himself says, deep down, Superman really is Clark Kent and really is a good man. Deep down, Batman is Batman and is NOT a good man, just a highly controlled one. Batman isn’t afraid of Joker or any of the other villains, not even Scarecrow. Batman is afraid of what he, Batman, would do if his control slipped. Everybody else should be afraid of that, too. Joker’s crazy enough to want to see what an uncontrolled Batman would look like. (Note that in the Injustice books, Joker found out what an uncontrolled Superman was like. Briefly. Very briefly.)

Arkham Knight answered that question.

It doesn’t. Preordination was a pushback on Free Will as salvation including actions seemed too hard.

If the democrats and the republicans were paired off and individually counted on election day would we all get along better? NOT DEEP ENOUGH – don’t forget to vote ＼（〇_ｏ）／

No. Joker sees himself and Batman as opposite side of the same coin. One is incomplete without the other.

“Superman never made any money,

Saving the world from Solomon Grundy.

And sometimes I despair the world will

Never see another man… like him."

~ “Superman’s Song” by Crash Test Dummies

Avoids the question of whether there is free will. An unanswerable question that depends solely on opinion as there is no evidence either way.

My favorite

“Without the Batman, crime has no punchline!”

Without Batman, the Joker would be at a loss.

1) Being an atheist, the first question is easy. In my view, there is no such thing as divine pre-ordination.

2) The second is a little more complicated. Might depend on which incarnations of the Joker and the Batman we’re talking about. I recall a few stories where supervillains weren’t keen to off their superhero enemies, for various reasons (the most prevalent likely being, “What are we going to do in the next issue if we kill the title character?”).

That football sure has a lot of air in it.

Maybe he’d be happy, maybe not. The one sure thing is that he would still have a smile on his face.