Is it any wonder that the comic industry is going broke?

DC Comics, clearly attempting to outwoke Marvel, has published a new comic in which the Joker gets pregnant and has a baby.

Because men can get pregnant too, silly. Don’t you know anything about science?

Screenrant: In the new The Joker backup story in this week’s Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing by Matthew Rosenberg, Francesco Francavilla, and Tom Napolitano from DC Comics, Zatanna runs into The Joker, who steals all the water from the Gotham River. Joker tries to romance the magic user but is knocked into the mud by Zatanna, who casts a spell that “no one else will ever have your baby.” While the spell is meant to stop Joker from ever procreating, it ends up leading to him getting pregnant and giving birth to a mud monster, whom he calls his son.

While Zatanna attempted to ensure The Joker was never able to bring children into this world, by saying that “no one else” will ever have his baby, instead of just “no one,” she accidentally made it possible for him to have a child with her, as it can only be hers as a result. So Joker ends up getting bizarrely pregnant and delivering birth to a mud monster, who eventually takes a human-like form.

Isn’t that exactly the kind of stories that make young men want to read comic books? Why? You thought boys picked up comics for adventures stories with fraught moral implications and a moral? Nah. It’s all about the woke.

Pregnant men, transgender characters, and woke messaging will save the comics industry. They just keep telling themselves that…over and over and over.