I don't think any of those characters would unite for a single mission. it was kind of getting in the way of what the actual real story was going to be.ĭamned does not give the impression that these characters would unite for a single mission. He said, 'Why don't we try to launch Black Label again, with this?' So I said, 'Sure.' What am I going to say, no? We kind of got rid of all the Justice League Dark stuff. I was talking to Lee about that kind of stuff, and Lee said to me, 'I would love to do that.' Then that whole thing fell apart luckily, but Jim Lee really liked what we had for what we were going to do. It was basically Justice League Dark with Batman in it. It was going to be like a two-year-long event. There was this crazy sort of event that DCU was planning and, I don't know how I got roped into it, but I was going to do six months of it. These are characters that Lee and I have some affection for. Gotham City got moved to the west coast, it was sort of Like L.A.
There is actually a script out there, I don't think Cliff-one thing we were going to do was Cliff Chiang and I were going to do the old '40s Batman. The studio, and we work for the studio, they were like, 'No no no no, we don't want to do any mature readers superhero stuff.' So it got killed. And it was R-Rated, and it didn't do so well. But it was gaining some traction and some momentum, and then Watchmen came out. man, I don't even know when we were calling it that. So it wasn't even called Black Label then, we were calling it Jokerverse. Well when we were talking about it originally after JOKER came out, we were just talking like, 'There is nothing to follow this up with.' DC had no idea JOKER was going to be as successful as it was. Was there a point in developing the story that you had-maybe not a grand revelation necessarily, but a point where momentum started picking up to the point that this series seemed to finally be moving towards release? You know, this is actually the second project it's taken me a decade to do?
But I would assume that's a unique experience, spending ten years trying to tell a story as people keep asking why you haven't yet.
I won't ask you if you would do any of that differently. It's funny to look back now and imagine all the people reading JOKER and wondering when you and Lee Bermejo were going to make a follow-up or spiritual sequel, only to spend the next ten years wondering why you didn't-as you both were going through the ten years of trying to get this book made. RELATED: Harley Quinn's Origin Retold in DC Black Label's HARLEEN
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