Uh, let me drive you mad with fear.

"Surely my take that is exactly the same as every other one that has been dogpiled will be the one to change those Trump-loving tankies' minds!"

And it's only gotten worse as comics-based media expanded into other media, especially movies. You get the feedback loop of reworking books to appeal to movie fans and everything just descends into generic slop that much quicker just for it all to get stirred up again with a shift in IP rights into new shit soup that tastes suspiciously like the old shit soup.

Every day he wakes up to his own personal Thirty Years War.

Puts on Gilbert Gottfried's Seinfeld voice

They say the extreme left is ruining comedy. Who is it saying that? Who are these people?!

I keep turning left eventually I'm just going straight again. Who is it turning extremely left? Who are these people?!

Same thing happened when I turn right. I turn right a few times and now I'm turning left. Who can follow these kinds of directions? Who are these people?!

Purge early and often

"I was going to form a workers' council but I had no body to organize with!" 💀💀💀

A $100 million dollar payday from a surprise hit can for sure break your brain and make you feel like you can do no wrong, so not discounting that either.

The more I read about this movie, the more I'm convinced that Phillips made this to fuck with WB, DC, and capeshit fans, and fleece Hollywood out of millions of dollars in the process.

Phillips refused to coordinate with anyone from DC because he was never making a Batman movie or one that was meant to tie into anything else.

He insisted on shooting entirely in LA despite how expensive it is.

He refused any test screenings and insisted on premiering it at the Venice Film Festival.

Got $20 million paychecks for himself and Phoenix (Gaga got paid $12 mil iirc).

Joker made so much money that a sequel was going to be made, and I can only conclude that either Phillips got too full of himself and got lost in the sauce making a bonkers sequel or he's just been fucking with everyone who demands more and more Jonkler slop.

The whole thing could also be another weird meta performance art thing that Joaquin Phoenix has done in the past.

I'm more of an Ator man myself. The guy just wants to defeat an evil spider god so he can marry his adopted sister.

My favorite fantasy character is Gandalf the normal dude.

Congratulations on managing to make Manos: The Hands of Fate even worse.