Emporer Joker revisited.

I gotta admit; I pulled out the back issues of 'Emporer Joker', the story where Mr. Mzyplytx (however its spelled!) gives the Joker 99% of his cosmic power, and the Joker becomes all-powerful.

What an awesome story!! We have the Clown Prince in all of his insanity completely remaking the world in his own sick image! Soon, he starts to control the entire universe!

Back in 2000 when this story first ran, I thought it was kinda ridiculous. It seemed like a serious DC-knockoff or Marvel's 'Infinity Gauntlet' storyline; where a madman gains all-consuming power over everything. But looking back, Now its kinda cool to watch the J-Man run amock all over the DC Heroes. He makes his own version of Bizarro, He tortures Batman in a Sisyphian manner (did i say that right?), over and over and over again in the worst imaginable way, turns the entire world into a weird Joker-fest nightmare, degrades the JLA into bizarre caricatures of themselves.....and Superman is quite literally the only person who is capable of stopping him. Even Darseid and the few DC cosmic characters are helpless against Joker!

With the re-emergence of BIZARRO in the pages of Superman, issue #160 of the "EJ' story has skyrocketed in value! Not only that, but the Joker is reappearing in Batman books; so this might help increase sales of this offbeat adventure even further.

-Will