a quick laugh

Anyone who knows me will be fully aware that I've almost always got stories of superheroes and villains (most frequently of either Dennis O'Neil or Warren Ellis's writing) in my head. And most recently, I've been thinking up a scenario featuring the Joker.

He breaks out of Arkham, only to find that Batman is off with the Justice League somewhere, and not available to play their special game. So, in search of the Batman's attention, the Joker takes a road trip. He finds some third-string city with a team of third-string heroes, breaks every single one of their third-string villains out of jail, organizes them into a villainous team against the heroes they've each already fought solo, and sets up a big confrontation between the two teams. Then, at the pinnacle of the action, he rains Joker-venom gas down on them all.

Because if a gaggle of third-string heroes and villains all dead and grinning together in the bottom of a pit won't earn him Batman's undivided attention, nothing will.