Joker Week - Part 3

BJ Taylor

"Jack Napier is a inner city Hispanic/Caucasian mix.  Due to his reddish-orange curly hair, as a child he was given the nick name of the Joker. A skinny child, he was often the target of bullies and would take out his anger and frustration on anyone or  any thing younger and smaller than himself. After being punished enough from his sadistic bullying himself, he learned to channel his anger through his intellect and whit and would fight back with jokes and humor. At one point he was diagnosed with vitiligo, which wasn't an issue in itself, but started his decline into a life of crime.  His wife was slowly finding less and less attractive, and after a mob attack for making jokes about powerful people, Jack's scars on his face pushed her over the edge.  In the midst of a heated argument in the car, Jack was hit by another speeding car on the passenger side, taking his family away from him. It was then he realized that life was random and pointless and took it upon himself to share that chaos. And he enjoyed every bit of it."

Let us know what you think, and stay tuned for more Joker art in memorial of Jerry Robinson tomorrow!

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