John Carpenter's The Joker: Year of the Villain #1 (2019)

This week, it's a first here on Precinct 13: a look at one
of John Carpenter's forays into writing for the comics world.
The Joker: Year of the Villain #1 is a
one-shot entry into the DC Comics canon that Carpenter co-wrote
with Borderlands writer Anthony Burch in
2019; it was released right around the same time that movie
audiences were turning out en masse to see Joaquin Phoenix's
interpretation of the infamous Batman villain. Our discussion of
this unique Carpenter work also gets into the larger world of
Carpenter comics, the very un-Joker-like portrayals of villainy
in his films, and even a member of Batman's "Rogues Gallery" that
you may(o) have never heard of! All that, plus a few more of our
musings on non-Carpenter horror, from a solid recent sequel to a
long-running, low-key franchise to a movie that shows us what
The Thing prequel probably should have
looked like.