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Wildehack — Mr. Funnyface meets Delirium
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"Have you seen my dog? I think I left him here...or maybe with my brother...at Disneyland? Or Tehran. I didn't *mean* to go away. I just get distracted sometimes.""Have I seen a dog...a dog...hm, nope, sorry. Just a few dog-faced docs, but I don't think you're looking for those. *Snazzy* combat boots, by the way. I didn't know they made 'em in fuschia."
"Thanks. Your jacket's boring. All white. And your pants. Doesn't it, you know...pinch?"
"Well, it's not exactly my style. I prefer...green. Or purple. Tertiary colors. I'm a man of simple taste."
"Okay. That's easy. Is that better?"
"Better? Sweetheart, you're my new favorite."
"I like you too, mister. Mr. Funny. You're like those bags they give to people! That people throw away and let blow like fairy flags in parking lots. You know, with the, uh, faces on them. The happy ones. I saw a pigeon strangled by one of those bags once. I also saw a pigeon once with a stick through its chest, only it was still, uh, walking around. It didn't know what was wrong. And a chicken one time with it's eyes all fallen out and hanging three feet away, still connected to its head by these thin blue strings."
"Really? Wow! Me too."
"It was pretty, those thin blue strings."
"I, hahaha, I know."
"You're mine, aren't you? Only not really."
Laughter. "You got that right, dollface."
"I like dolls."
"And I love 'em! Baby dolls, little girl dolls, pretty little Barbies in their ripe teens and twenties with jobs and boyfriends and parents across the country...Most people like dolls, you see, and they like them in this one specific shape. Break the shape--deviate from the expected just a *little*--and people just go *nuts*."
"I could make some. I could make you some dolls to break right now. Or *butterflies*, or even fishes, or tiny purple dragonflies. Whatever you want to break."
"Whatever I want, huh? You know what, Del, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Laughter. "Me too, Mr. Funnyface."
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Wow, that is frighteningly understandable. I love how the Joker is able to realize that he is, to some extent a figment of Delirium's imagination, only not, because in reality, he lives completely in Destruction's realm.
Small, tiny little quibble. Green and purple are secondary colors, not tertiary.
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This is great, Delirium is my favourite of the Endless and the conversation between her and Joker was perfect.
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Who doesn't love Delirium? She's so irresistably loveable. 
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Ah, this is great! I was hoping someone would throw Delirium in with the Joker! Those two would have a ball, together. Oh the things their two combined minds would come up with is beyond me.
Delirium is with Destruction, quite a bit. . .so there is another plus for Mr. J. . . though, I don't know how the Joker would react to Barnabas.
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I'm kind of terrified of what their combined minds would come up with, honestly. Hence the subject of Drawing # 2, lol. They make a great match.
Destruction is going to come in later! I'm not sure about Barnabas, though. Maybe!
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Agh, forgot to even comment on the pic. Words and image = too much for my tiny brain to comprehend.
I love the way you've drawn Delirium with lighter penstrokes to make her look rounded and opalescent - she looks very mad in that way that children are mad because they have no coherent sense of reality, just the ability to concentrate on odd details.
The Joker seems composed of those ridges that the make-up creates in the furrows of his face - sort of glowering and byronic. The starburst of red of the absent hearts and the blood dripping from the bat are also lovely touches.
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"she looks very mad in that way that children are mad because they have no coherent sense of reality, just the ability to concentrate on odd details."
For *not* having read The Sandman, you have a very good grip on Delirium's character. The Joker has that same childish glee in everything that she does, but it's tempered by a careful understanding of the way reality works--so he can break it better.
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Such an intriguing little piece! From what I've read of the Delirium character she seems like a perfect pairing to Joker. I especially love the whole 'meaning in apparent randomness' style of speech (all very Ophelia and wise fool), and the disturbing things which they both consider to be beautiful - optic nerves and pigeons strangled with shopping bags. Very American Beauty. Sort of.
Oh, and the slight wryness of the Joker here is great – because Joker isn't crazy or distracted, of course, so people who actually are probably intrigue him. Someone like Batman would have the desire to make them conform to his rules ('Make sense, dammit!'
[Once again, I'm not the best person to comment on this because I haven't read Sandman and I have a longstanding dislike of Neil Gaiman to overcome... also, I checked out the wiki and found out that Delirium is based on his pal Tori Amos who just... makes me want to break things... I hate people who are self-consciously 'kooky'! Raaa! Ok, rant over... ignore me]
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A big old YES! to your second paragraph. That's it exactly--it *seems* like the Joker would have everything in common with Delirium, because of the whole madness thing--but of course the Joker isn't mad. He doesn't belong to her at all, but he is able to appreciate all the crazy things she does without thought because he would do them by design.
And you really must read the Sandman! I'm not the biggest Neil Gaiman fan in the world either--mainly because I don't think he can write novels, and that seems to be so much of what he does--but the Sandman is truly a gem. To give you an estimate, I prefer it to the Watchmen and prize it with my much loved copy of The Killing Joke.)
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