DC Comics slammed for going ‘woke’ with new pregnant Joker

Heather Hamilton

January 06, 03:55 PM January 06, 03:55 PM

DC Comics critics are reacting to a newly released backup storyline featuring Batman villain the Joker as pregnant, calling it “massive toxicity and woke behavior.”

In The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4, a backup story titled "Knocked Upside Down" shows Joker getting pregnant after nemesis magician Zatanna casts a spell on him, resulting in him giving birth throughout a glorified dream sequence.

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Backlash stirred across social media as a panel from the new comic storyline began to circulate.

“Massive toxicity & woke behavior by DC Comics,” a tweet stated. “Seriously, something needs to be done to weed out this idiotic behavior. Why the hell did they make Joker Pregnant!”

Comic review writer Theresa Campagna called it “probably the worst story” and noted: “I don’t know how much longer I can do this.”

“This is one of those comics you can’t really review, because there’s no real story or artistic vision to pick apart,” Campagna also said. “Writing aside, however, there have been a lot of these little moments or stories at DC lately that make me go, ‘How the heck did DC editorial give that a green light?’”

Orange Hat Reviews pointed out that the comic was not intending to make Joker transgender.

Others shrugged aside the context and called the storyline “a totally dumb thing to do” regardless.

The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4’s writer Matthew Rosenberg reportedly mocked his story’s critics.

"The reason people are mad at me today is the funniest reason people have ever been mad at me," Rosenberg wrote in a tweet that has since been deleted.

The latest storyline follows DC Comics' previous announcement about a comic featuring a bisexual Superman.