Need a break traveling on the Merritt Parkway? Or maybe a place to park at a commuter lot? Either way, why not take a break and find this cache. It's dedicated to the infamous Batman villan, THE JOKER....
HAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You didn't think anyone else could possibly fill this role, did you? The yin to his yang, the evil to his good, the chaos to his order, the utter insanity to his only slight insanity, The Joker is The Batman's ultimate opposite number.
No story quite showed this as definitively as Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke," but the Joker has been a defining villain in every era of Batman's comics and other media appearances. Be he zany, only slightly twisted, a truly maniacal mass-murderer, operating solo or with a sidekick like Harley Quinn (herself a nominee for this list), the Joker is always there to give us a laugh and torture Batman and his allies. He shot and crippled Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon (she got better). He killed Jason "Robin 2" Todd by beating him to death with a crowbar (um, he got better too). He's been unleashing his truly creepy brand of whole-scale vengeance on the Bat-family in the current "Death of the Family" story, set to wrap in February.
The best part is, though, that the Joker is always just one step removed from Batman. If he had taken one wrong turn, given in to one bad feeling, Bruce Wayne may have turned out very much like the Joker. And isn't seeing a twisted reflection of yourself the scariest thing of all?
