First Image of the new DC universe Joker

Over the past several days, there have been several pictures released that have teased what appeared to be pictures of Jared Leto slowly transforming into The Joker, who he will be playing in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie.

Well the final image is here, the first official image of the new Joker, so lets take a look.

Well, thats... different.

You know, different might not be a bad thing. Whoever was going to have to play The Joker next was going to have to deal with the inevitable comparisons that would be made to Heath Ledger's Joker. To many people, that's the definitive Joker performance now, and a very hard act to follow. So the thought process here might be to simply go as different as possible and make it an apples to oranges situation. You can't really compare the quality of these two Jokers because they are so different to begin with.

And maybe this is just a publicity photo that doesn't really reflect the character portrayal that will be eventually seen on the screen. After all, are they really going to have a Joker character with the word "damaged" literally tattooed on his forehead the entire time?

Look I don't want to come out and say "They did bad, fix everything and make it the way that I want." Go check out some message boards from late 2007/early 2008 and see how many people were worried that Heath Ledger was going to be a terrible Joker. But I do want to say that I'm worried. I haven't been wild about much of anything I've seen about the upcoming DC cinematic universe, and this can be added to that list. You guys, I hope you know what you're doing with tatted up Mr. J up there.