When The Times unmasked the artist behind the now-infamous image depicting President Obama as the Joker villain from "Batman," readers found a lot to chatter off about.
Posters bearing the image, which had been hung around Los Angeles and other cities, were finding a devoted audience among conservatives as a clever way to poke fun at Obama. The fact that the artist, Firas Alkhateeb, turned out to be a moderate-leaning college kid from Chicago, rather than a radical right-winger as many had suspected, raised eyebrows.