Agreed! That would add a whole new layer of complexity - it would have to learn and account for its own mechanical constraints, take into account the constraints of a controller (delay, physical location of buttons, number of buttons you can press at the same time, etc.) instead of just reading and pumping out raw…

I’m thinking more along the lines of thumb-control for joysticks. Give an AI a mechanical hand, put it in front of a fighting game, and let’s see what happens! Also, having to learn how to handle twin-stick control in an FPS would be fun to watch.

I’d like to see an AI be given actual motor controls, like a mechanical hand, where they then have to learn how to use a controller in order to properly play.

Like a really ...really off-brand Dr Manhattan lol

Yeah, fighting Batman on a new front (not protecting Gotham.) Which has a sense of irony to it since Batman is similar because he does what he does in ‘vengeance’ for his trauma which makes him a joke that needed to be told

I really enjoyed this one as well. As we’ve seen on Justice League, it’s always iffy when a artist tries to write (Trinity is a good example of an artist written book that’s good, but also a bit disappointing at times), but Murphy really did a good job with this one. The main narrative works and is pretty timely, plus…

He’s not going straight OR fighting crime. He’s suing GCPD and Batman for damages...that’s a very particular and selfish way of becoming Gotham’s protector, but that’s what he’s doing, and it’s well in line with the Joker’s character.

It wasn’t that he decided going straight, he was put on proper medication (I guess that wasn’t given at Arkham) and he’s got clarity now.

  That Morrison also wrote an acclaimed actual run on Batman would seem to indicate it’s more a question of him being used poorly than anything inherent in the character - a sort of corollary to the rule of Superman only being boring due to bad writing, not his powers. 

Other than his giant body count, which I think they mention in the comic (I could be wrong). All he was ever convicted of is petty stuff though.

Say “how much he thinks Batman is dangerous as a character” instead and I’m 100% with you. I don’t think Morrison dislikes Batman (or thinks that the character is bad) more that he can be weaponized by his fans, particularly when written badly.

I agree. There’s echoes of this theme in Grant Morrison’s “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth,” where the rogues are essentially anthropomorphized social anxieties. Each character represents anything that is not seen as a masculine ideal and is locked away for it. Batman is there to punish them physically…

Its not so much who is the good or bad.. its who is overall worse.

I have no doubt that the Joker will end up being a momentarily sympathetic but truly terrible protagonist by the end of the series. It’s pretty disheartening how many people are fixated on that part when the story about Batman is a lot more important and interesting.

Batman has always been the personification of America’s “secret” belief that private wealth and violence are the cure for poverty and mental illness. I suspect this comment section will prove how uncomfortable people get when it’s called to attention.

It’s a lot more about “what if we talk about how Batman is the bad guy” than “what if Joker wasn’t”.

“what do you mean I’m not a genius”

"Take out your power of speech but leave your ability to sing"

I'm looking forward to the unveiling of the new supervillain: Dr. Electromagnetism!