Normally, we probably would have let this sad news pass us by, since there’s no obvious comics connection here — but thanks to Topless Robot, there actually is:

Andrew Koenig, who played the Joker in the above fan film “Batman: Dead End” as well as the son of Star Trek’s Walter “Chekov” Koenig, was found dead in a marsh in Vancouver late Wednesday night, as an apparent suicide. Andrew was apparently extremely depressed prior to this. “If you are one of those people who can’t handle it any more, know people are out there who really care before you make that final decision,” Walter Koenig told the Telegraph afterwards. “Talk to somebody.”

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