The Joker's Asylum

Throughout July, DC welcomes you to the Joker's Asylum, a special month-long weekly series featuring the best of Batman's rouge gallery. Starting with the Joker, the series will continue with self-contained stories about the Penguin, Poison Ivy,
Scarecrow, and Two-Face, all narrated by Gotham's leading psychopath the Joker. Each issue will feature a new and different creative team.

The Penguin issue is actually written by one of my favorite new talents Jason Aaron, which is surprising because I could have sworn Aaron had an exclusive contract with Marvel. I guess writing the disturbing life of poor old Oswald Cobblepot supersedes silly legal-bidding agreements with the competition. Any who, back to the Joker's significance to the rest of the series, Joker's Asylum is clearly being put out right in time for The Dark Knight film to help promote Heath Ledger's tragic Joker roll. However, after his untimely death, anything with the Joker name on it is going to get an extra boost of sales anyway.

So regardless, Joker's Asylum looks to be a fun summer exploration into villainous lunacy. Here are some interesting interviews about the
Poison Ivy and Scarecrow installments.
Keep on rooting for the bad guys, you loonies!

-Jon