Tripper scribe talks Joker’s Asylum
Take one infamous Batman villain and apply ’80s horror film archetypes and you’ll have The Joker’s Asylum: Scarecrow, a new one-shot coming from DC on July 23rd.
Illustrated by Juan Doe, the story was lovingly crafted by Joe Harris (The Tripper) who wrote us pointing to an interview he just conducted at Newsarama about his latest book. “Anytime I can do something even slightly ‘horrific’ with spandex super-heroes and their rogues gallery, I’m a happy guy,” he enthuses.
With the Joker acting as a Crypt Keeper of sorts, the story unleashes the Scarecrow on a house full of teenage girls. It’s described by Harris as “a touch of Heathers and various John Hughes films from the era thrown in for depth and context. I was raised on a steady diet of movies like Friday The 13th as well as other slashers, along with higher-concept movies like April Fool’s Day and the A Nightmare on Elm Street series. I treated Scarecrow like a slasher movie threat…a masked maniac in the mold of Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger, but with a pathology known to Batman readers.”
Read the full interview here.
Source: Newsarama
