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TheJokeris widely regarded as one of thebest risible book villain of all fourth dimension , and inDC Comics ’ sprawling multiverse , a variant of him live that can wield the huge power of a Yellow Lantern ; it ’s just too bad his powers — and his appearance as a Lantern overall — is one of the bragging letdowns in this newInfinite Frontierinitiative . do it to say , the leader of the Yellow Lanterns , Green Lanternbaddie Sinestro , would n’t be too happy with Joker ’s functioning , specially knowing how derange he can bewithouta power ring .
Revealed in the fourth take of theInfinite Frontiermini - serial publication but solidified as a squander chance inInfinite Frontier # 6 , by Joshua Williamson and Xermanico , Joker and his pals on the multiversal villain team dubbedInjustice Incarnateare taking on their heroic counterparts of the Justice Incarnate in a drag - out brawl determine on Earth - Omega . Recruited from a dissimilar Earth than the one where the “ substantial ” Joker resides , this Yellow Lantern version of the reference is a cool - depend improver to the DC Universe but is n’t exactly a memorable one .
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Seen more so in the background knowledge and having exactly zero speaking lines , the initial reveal of a Joker that can command the power of fear was one that fans were understandably stoke to see . Decked out in the traditional attire of aYellow Lanternand complete with a power ring to channel his constructs , this edition of Joker — like any other warrior of the Emotional Spectrum ranging from Green Lanterns to Red Lanterns and beyond — has the power to quite literally formanythinghis sick and twisted mind can come up with , settle instead for two constructs that are underwhelming , to say the least .
Seen in issue five ofInfinite Frontier , Joker is struggle the first Green Lantern , Alan Scott , and instead of conjuring an army of palaver teeth , a giant Joker fish , or even some kind of fun construct plunge in his clown theatrics , Joker decide that the predominate bat - villain , Solomon Grundy , is manifestly the undecomposed option to guide with . To add insult to injury , Green Lantern complot his own avatar and it ’s none other than Batman himself , effectively beat Joker at his own construct game and utilizing his light-green power in a decidedly more interesting and unequalled elbow room than expected . Furthermore , and to rub in how much potential drop was miss in this interchange , issue six sees Joker expend his power to scare the daylights out of the Justice Incarnate with ( drumroll , please ) a random , nondescript dude aiming down the flock of a rifle . severely give out .
Not even close to what fans were hoping to see given The Clown Prince of Crime ’s preference for being a terrifying , sadistic , and plain malevolent guy wire , the addition of thisYellow Lanternversion of the baddie come off as a cheap gismo that clearly was n’t given enough opinion outside of the general mash - up of the grapheme . alas unable to capitalize on either of the two concept ensure here , Joker does n’t even do enough as a paladin to aid his squad , as he ’s smacked down by Captain Carrot middling easily , failing to make an impression one way or another .
So while it ’s reset the ball was dropped in the execution of this new Joker , he may pop up again somewhere down the descent to give fan a better display than what ’s presented here . Regardless , the musical theme of a Yellow LanternJokeris still a wild one , it ’s just too bad everything else beleaguer him was a Brobdingnagian letdown .
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