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Forum Name: Mini-Stories
Topic ID: 123
Message ID: 13
#13, RE: FI: Reinvent
Posted by Mephron on Apr-25-12 at 06:58 PM
In response to message #9
To be honest, I did it like that for three reasons:

1) the sheer banality of it, the sudden fact that reality intruded and slapped him, was in a sense the ultimate joke (as Gryph noted)

2) setting up things like the Jokerz (from Batman Beyond) and other lunatics that idolized him to be threats of varying levels

3) I did not want anyone on staff to have to write the obvious and terribly short story of 'Joker comes to New Avalon for revenge against the people who knocked over his bank and everyone in town comes down on him like a ton of bricks'.

Honestly, though, in my opinion, having him dead and in the history gives us some great story possibilities, more than having him alive does... as you see here.

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