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word of advice : contains spoilers forFuture State : Gotham # 8 !
DC ’s vicious newJokerjust revealed his true face , and while the futuristic scoundrel is n’t about to replace the genuine Clown Prince of Crime , heisa terrifying monster the Bat - Family will be lucky to survive . Set in DC’sFuture Statecontinuity , Future State : Gotham # 8comes from Dennis Culver and Nikola Čižmešija , and sees the terrifyingNext Joker rag by Punchlinefinally get in to take his Cypriot pound of material body .
TheFuture Stateinitiative , which follow on the hound ofDark night : Death Metal , introduce fans to the DC Universe ’s potential hereafter . Including the withering fall of the Teen Titans , the supposed death of Batman , and the encroaching magical threat of the Unkindness , Future Stateturned Gotham into a dystopia where the Bat - Family must fight every day to forbid the city slide into chaos . In this looping of Gotham , Mayor Christopher Nakano has handed overvigilante prevention to the fascist Magistrate organization , prone to shooting first and ask questions subsequently in a metropolis that no longer commit its hero .
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During DC ’s largerFuture Stateinitiative , lover notedthe Joker was nowhere to be ascertain , andFuture State : Gotham # 8confirms that the original Clown Prince of Crime is out of the icon , his mantel taken up by a razor - clawed killer whale who face off with security system contractor and sometime hero Grifter in this upshot . fan had hear the new Joker ’s disturbing mask in marketing material , and the baddie has been built up in the series so far , but the previous issue end with him removing his mask , reveal the goliath underneath - a precipitous - toothed predator with a diamond scar over one eye , mime the original Joker ’s current injury in the mainstream persistence .
The Next Joker precede in the issue seems much more criminally aberrant than the original . For illustration , whereas the original Joker was n’t pit to fight it out against an opponent , specially if the opponent was Batman , he generally choose that his henchmen or pardner do most of the fight to give him time to get away . None of that count to the Next Joker , who seems to prefer operate on his own . TheNext Joker also seems to have superhuman powers , as he is able to crash through a door , start off a drop-off , take several bullets to the pectus , survive a grenade - like explosive , and yet still move with a speed and ferocity that shocks his opponent . The killer even is likely a cannibal by event ’s end , stop off Grifter in a show of his abilities and raw power .
succeeding State : Gothamwisely does n’t endeavor to recreate the original Joker ’s trick in the new version , or else turning him into a major physical terror more comparable to Bane or Killer Croc . With theFuture Statetimeline having ostensibly been prevented by the latest events in DC ’s nowadays - becoming a broad prediction of what ’s come in the future rather than the exact events lector can look -Future State : Gothamwill run a major part in make up one’s mind how influential this dark timeline remains . It ’s yet to be seenhow fans will feel aboutFuture Statenow it feels less prognosticative of come upshot , but with curveballs like the monstrous manikin of theNext Joker , there are still plenty of twists and reveals to keep fans interested .
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