Batman Vox Humana Issue #2 Page 1
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Location: Arkahm Asylum
Scene : Same as the last panel of Issue #1, though no text. Rain has started and it is coming in through the bars. Batman is just staring at the Joker.
Next panel, looking in from the outside into Joker’s cell through bars. It is raining still and Joker has started chuckling, then laughing.
Next panel, further out, Joker’s laughter is trailing out from cell.
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Joker: So Batman took Batzarro out of Arkham.
Joker: Where Batzarro will never rot, for so small was Batman’s love.
End of Joker Story
Location: Arkham Asylum Cafeteria
Joker (whispering in Batzarro’s ear): Batman will always love you.
Batzarro (tears on his face, his mouth open and screaming): Batzarro stop crime! Batman good!
Batzarro runs out of cafeteria.
Location: Arkham Asylum – Outside Batzarro’s Cell
Batzarro: Batman good. Batman good. Joker bad. Batzarro still wants to be Batman. Batzarro will be Batzarro still.
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Joker: But Batman loved Batzarro, and he told Batzarro.
Joker: Batman loved Batzarro so much, Batman didn’t want to hurt Batzarro.
Joker: Batman gave Batzarro good instructions.
Batman: Stop crime.
Picture of Batzarro with dead child’s body.
Joker: So Batzarro didn’t do just that.
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The guests have now sat down.
Professor Hugo Strange: And will you be joining us?
Jack Napier: No, I won’t be. Just think, after tonight, you will all have the same secret. When you go after each other, remember what you did together,…
Jack Napier: And remember who made you do this.
Jack Napier (smiling): Now take, eat, all of you. This is the blood of the new covenant, which is shed for me and by many. Do this and forever remember me.
Location: Arkham Asylum Cafeteria
Scene: All of the people at the Joker’s table, except for Batzarro, is just staring at the Joker, wide-eyed with their mouths open. They cannot believe what they just heard. The Joker is laughing.
Joker: I don’t know why I even remember that story, but it has always made me smile.
Batman Vox Humana Issue #1.5 Page 10
Page 10
Location: Morning in the Arkham Asylum Cafeteria
Scene: The Joker and Batzarro are in line getting food put in their trays. Crazy Quilt is in the line with them, as is Two-Face, Maxie Zeus, The Mad Hatter, and Mr. Zsasz.
New Panel
Scene: Batzarro and Joker are sitting down to eat.
Joker: You know, I used to eat like this all the time, all the time. Everyone would come. Everyone who was anyone. No one turned down my invitations.
Location: Joker’s Warehouse
Scene: The Joker, (as Jack Napier) has set up a banquet table. On it is a large covered platter, candelabras, drinks, and place settings. Sitting at the table is a woman who looks like a non-costumed Harley Quinn (it isn’t Harley Quinn, I just thought that it would be good to have a lookalike for her here, it kind of sets the stage for Harley in the future), Luigi Maroni, Professor Hugo Strange, Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb, Tony Zucco, Vincent Falcone, Penguin, and Doctor Karl Hellfern (Batman’s first supervillain). The lady who looks like Harley Quinn is sitting at one end of the table, the Joker (as Jack Napier) is standing with his chair behind him at the other end.
To help distinguish this Jack Napier from the later Joker, for this section I will refer to him as Jack Napier.
Peter Grogan (annoyed): What’s the meaning of this, Jack?
Professor Hugo Strange: Yes, some of us have business to attend to.
Jack Napier: Gentlemen, please, surely we have time to be civil. I promise I didn’t ask all of you to be here for idle chat.
Luigi Maroni: Then why are we here?
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Batzarro (singing): When I brush for quite awhile,
Batzarro (singing): I will have a happy smile!
Batzarro: That song awful! The words make sense!
Location: Arkham Asylum
Scene: Batzarro is laughing uproariously. The Joker is in the background, looking dismayed.
Joker: Where’s the joke? Where’s the funny? I just don’t understand.
Scene: The Joker has turned his back on the door, his head is turned looking behind him, his arm is waving goodbye.
Joker: I’m going to bed. I need to sleep. I’ll tell you another story tomorrow.
Joker: Good morning, backwards man.
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Location: Arkham Asylum
Scene: The Joker is laughing.
Batzarro: Story funny, funny man. Batzarro not have story. Batzarro keep story to himself!
The art for Batzarro’s stories should be extremely simple. Not necessarily minimalist, just simple.
Location: Batzarro’s Bedroom in his Trailer
Scene: Batzarro is in his bed. It is morning.
Batzarro: One night, Batzarro fell asleep.
Batzarro: Batzarro yawns, and his breath smells sweet.
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Singing creeps it’s way into Batzarro’s cell.
Joker (singing): Hello, hello, hello…What a wonderful word, hello!
Batzarro perks up.
Batzarro: Goodbye!
Joker (singing): Hello, hello, hello…You can hear it wherever you go!
Scene: The Joker is holding onto the bars in the window of his cell, pushing his face through the bars. His eyes are wide and glittering. There is a yellow tint in their sclera. His hair is wild and un-kept. He smiles a gleeful, manic smile. His teeth are neat and his smile is wide.
Joker (singing): A stranger in a strange world can’t be nearer, But when you hear the hello song it’s dearer…
Joker: Or is it goodbye?
Batzarro (starting to smile): Goodbye!
Joker: Oh, you say goodbye, and I say hello! Hello! Hello! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Batzarro (his crying starting to stop due to the distraction): Batzarro stop crime!
