new Joker image (sort of)

nice one to Empire film magazine for a new and rather tasty image of The Joker from the very anticipated film The Dark Knight. i was really dubious about the idea of Heath Ledger in the part, but with each new image it's getting more and more impressive.

i hope this marks a turnaround in the fortunes of Empire. i really loved the magazine, but in the mid-90's every edition became a case of "all come and praise Quentin Tarantino" despite the fact that he wasn't doing much, and then the interwebnet came along. ho hum, someone somewhere still thinks the magazine is cool enough to get an exclusive image like this one, so perhaps i should pick up this edition and see if it has got any better with the passing of time.....

i note on the cover a reference to Mummy 3 - erm, wasn't The Scorpion King kind of supposed to be that?? oh well, it's not like the rest of the cover is accurate - The Joker could be called many, many things, but "new" nemesis for Batman is somewhat discarding a few appearances from the manic one, is it not?

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!