Laughing American comics, I am becoming more and more like a clown

"I hope I won't sell out my teammates this time."

"No, of course not," Lucien said. "Now tell me, how are those old friends?"

……

Oswald was really moral to a certain extent. He collected and buried the ashes of all the people who had caused bloodshed in Gotham and died in the past twenty years.

"Two-Face, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Deadshot, Scarecrow, Firefly, Man-Bat..." He listed a long list of names.

Lucien interrupted him: "Who's still alive?"

"The Riddler, Harley Quinn."

Oswald rubbed the handle of his umbrella. "Edward underwent a lobotomy, and his brain has since been damaged. His IQ is now lower than that of a seven-year-old."

"As for Harley... she went a little crazy after you disappeared, and even crazier after Poison Ivy died. After Catwoman became what she is now, she turned into bipolar and severely depressed... difficult to approach and communicate with."

Harley Quinn, formerly known as Joker Girl.

Want to go see it?

……

Just like there is a fateful connection between the Joker and Batman, there is also a fateful connection between the Joker and Harley Quinn.

……

"This is the worst news I've heard recently." Lucian pointed at Catwoman. "She said that if I could become the Joker, all difficulties would be solved and I would be victorious."

"I never said that." Catwoman refused to take the blame.

"Then what is the purpose of your two-year plan?"

Oswald keenly sensed the tension and kept silent.

"He precisely measured my feelings for Jenny, allowing her to die at the right time, exploiting my conscience... Honestly, the fact that I have a conscience is quite surprising." Lucian smiled.

"Let me carry out her last wish... to join the resistance."

"How comforting it would be for Batman to know that his old lover has become what he once was."

Perhaps because she was in the wrong, Catwoman did not respond.

"Okay." Lucian shrugged. "I don't care anyway."

……

It's not easy to resist the Saint Bat.

The rebels have no major advantages in terms of economy, military force or personnel.

The legendary villains that have been passed down all have their own flaws - the Joker is incomplete, Catwoman is half-disabled, the Penguin is not good at fighting, Harley Quinn is depressed, and the Riddler has low intelligence.

It seems that the younger generation is not up to the task, so eighty-year-old veterans with missing limbs have to hold up the show.

"I remember there was a Lady Silva in the League of Assassins... Oh, do you know Damian Wayne? Batman's biological son, he should be alive too."

The timeline in which Batman recognized Damian was after Knightfall... and since his father was dead, Damian's mother couldn't have put her son in Gotham.

Away from Gotham...plus, with the participation of the League of Assassins in the resistance, Damian might indeed still be alive.

As Lucien deduced, Lilith confirmed the news.

"That's great." Then he snapped his fingers: "Batman's son and Bane's son, the second generation of the Angel of Death... This should be the struggle of the sub-era... This has nothing to do with us."

"Our goal." Lucian drew a "W" on the table. "Only bats."

"We have to get him out... or do you have a different opinion?" He looked at Oswald and Catwoman.

Oswald is not a psychopath who hangs around Batman. He may have opinions, but Catwoman, as Batman's girlfriend, would not.

But on the contrary.

Oswald had no objection, it was Catwoman who had an objection.

"I think these two things can be done at the same time." Catwoman's eyes were green. She nodded slightly and said in a hoarse voice: "I mean to rescue Batman and then let him save Gotham."

Like crap.

The main theme of the conversation from the beginning was "Super Anti saves Super Hero, Super Hero saves the world."

But Lucian didn't care about his nonsense literature: "Great plan... Now, please list the detailed regulations."

"I haven't slept for a long time, I'm a little sleepy... Good night." When he stood up, he glanced at the clock which showed three o'clock in the afternoon: "Okay, good afternoon."

……

He did not discuss further, and almost abruptly and quickly found a place to fall asleep.

……

Sunset, beach, waves.

The difference is that, apart from the person whose face cannot be seen clearly and Lucian, there is another person in this dream.

Chapter 111 "The Special One"

Red lining, green vest,

Purple tie, striped pants, gloves, leather shoes and a long coat.

This is the Joker's classic look from "The Killing Joke."

He didn't approach the person on the chair, but sat on the beach, looking at Lucien with a gentle smile that didn't match his attire. "First meeting... maybe you want to call me Jack?"

Lucien didn't call him by name, nor did he call him a clown, and even omitted the personal pronoun "you". He just said: "I didn't think it would succeed."

……

The Jack in front of him was not a clown... at least not the independent clown in -22.

Lucien gave himself psychological suggestion, separating the part that belonged to the Joker from his subjective mind and combining it with the will formed by Jenny's experience.

……

"But I can still be born... You were born to do this." Jack gave him a thumbs up.

Lucian: “…”

He glanced over and said, "If you are the clown I will become, all I can say is, I am disappointed."

He wasn't referring to Jack's actions or words, but the outfit that was too similar to The Killing Joke, and Jack knew what he meant.

He pulled a gun from his bosom and twirled it in his hands. "That's the only difference... I remember his signature weapon was a knife or a crowbar?"

"And you shouldn't blame me. This isn't my problem, it's you! Your uniqueness is too low... and can be easily covered by any clown."

"You have to be special."

Lucian didn't say anything, and he didn't need to say anything. Jack, who was hatched from his personality and memory, was able to understand what he meant.

……

He put the gun back in his arms:

"The clown is a ghost, a curse, a virus... a cluster of some kind... We need disaster, we need danger, we need a bad day..."

"You need a unique origin to resist this torrent... Become 'Joker Man,' 'Pale Knight,' 'Red Hood,' 'Three Jokers,' 'The Killer's Laugh,' 'Jack Napier,' 'Chow Keer,' and so on. You need to name yourself 'Lucian,' not the Joker."

This is what "the worst day" really means.

It is not that Lucien is the nourishment from which the Joker is born, but that the Joker is the nourishment from which Lucien is born.

……

“A unique origin.”

This was something Lucien had to accomplish—before he was overtaken by the Joker's influence.

It's just a pity...

"I am tough at heart and am the modern-day Nikolai Ostrovsky" (author of "How the Steel Was Tempered"), he said.

Because of his indifferent attitude, Lucien is unable to empathize with others, and in many cases, he even finds it difficult to understand what is happening to him.

"This is the best, safest, and most lovable quality." Jack said with regret: "It's a pity that we don't need it."

"What if I became a superhero?" Lucian asked.

"Joker," Jack said, "Have you forgotten? People have already seen the superhero Joker. You need to be the first, not just a copy of another... Besides, are you really willing to be the shadow of another being? Even if he's a decent person?"

Of course he doesn't want to.

……

"Honestly... killing others is easy, like killing Jenny. If necessary, I have no difficulty killing people, and I don't have any psychological burden."

But killing others will not solve the problem, and what will be born will only be a third-rate villain with no characteristics, "Murderous Clown".

I will still be drowned in tens of thousands of clown works and become an ordinary one among them, with no one remembering me and no self.

What Lucian had to do was kill himself.

Murder is the core of tragedy.

The clown is the soul that floats out of the dead body.

So, Lucian had to commit suicide.

You have to immerse yourself in it instead of committing suicide in a pretentious way.

……

“Only when the story is exciting enough will people read it and buy into it.”

They were standing and sitting, all watching the moving images in the distance. The sunset was obviously gentle, but because it was eternal and unchanging, it could only bring bursts of coldness.

"The original Joker...was created in Batman Vol. 1940, No. 4, published in April 1, based on the novel The Man Who Laughs, and was created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson."

Lucian recalls:

"Back then he was just a cold-blooded lunatic who relied on laughing gas to commit crimes, but in 1946 he became a comical robber, and even worse, in 1966 Romero's Joker was surfing with Batman in swimming trunks... It wasn't until 1973 that he became a villain again."

"It wasn't until 1975 that he had his own solo magazine...he became a completely independent figure."

"But since then, related works have emerged one after another, and all kinds of clowns have been born."