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DC Comics is followiong up their internationally outsourced graphic anthology Batman: The World with Joker: The World.
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DC Comics announces Joker: The World, a new graphic anthology for September 2024.
Compilation includes global creators like Geoff Johns and Satoshi Miyagawa.
Features unique Joker tales from 13 different countries, excluding Russia, France, and China.
The Joker’s international influence explored in 184-page hardcover release.
DC Comics is followiong up their internationally outsourced graphic anthology Batman: The World with Joker: The World. With creators including Geoff Johns, Satoshi Miyagawa, David Rubin, German Peralta, Alvaro Fong Varela and Jason Fabok, in total representing creators from thirteen different countries – including the USA – and to be published in hardcover in September 2024.
This September, The Joker takes his unique brand of madness and mayhem on a world tour, as DC today announced plans to publish Joker: The World, a 184-page hardcover anthology.
Like DC’s bestselling and critically acclaimed Batman: The World, this can’t-miss anthology will feature Joker stories by creative teams representing 13 different countries, including renowned storytellers such as Geoff Johns, Satoshi Miyagawa, David Rubin, German Peralta, Alvaro Fong Varela, Jason Fabok, and others. With stories tailored to the authentic style, tone, and cultural sensibilities of different nations around the world, Joker: The World highlights how DC’s most popular super-villain has inspired chaos on a global scale.
Joker: The World arrives at participating comic book shops, booksellers, and mass-market retailers/e-tailers Tuesday, September 17, and will also release the same day in the following countries: Spain, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Czech Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Cameroon, Poland, and Argentina.
What does The Joker do when on holiday in Spain? How has he inspired others to follow in his footsteps, creating Joker duplicates in Germany and Turkey? How does a Joker in Cameroon find inspiration? Only the top writers and artists from each country can provide the answers, in unique stories celebrating one of the most compelling characters in pop culture.
That’s fewer countries than last time… but maybe they aren’t so keen to ask Russia this time around. Joker: The World will be localised and simultaenously in all those territories. They are missing out France and China as well, but adding Cameroon and Argentina,
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