I Prefer My Joker Ones

You know, I was just considering mentioning a dream I had a couple of days ago, when XKCD comes out with this.

It’s pretty much all you need to see to get where I was coming from, anyway.

Deep Thoughts

Last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, I idly let my mind drift to geekery. “Where do superheroes get their names?” I asked myself. “I always hear about those ‘what’s your superhero name’ memes, but do you really get to pick your own? Of the few canonical superhero name origins I know, most were invented by their world's media. Is that typical?”

Then from another part of my mind floated the obvious answer to my question: “No, it is not, because if it were somebody would have been named ‘The Masked Fruitcake’ by now.”*

… Which just goes to show that you already know the answers to most questions, if you only ask the part of you with the logic.


*I vote The Question. Dude doesn’t even have the decency to have question marks on his outfit. Curse you, Riddler, and your stealing them all!