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I'm sorry, but the Joker is a *joking* character. Heath's Joker is two-dimensional. He, as you say, just kills for the hell of it. That is not what the Joker does.
Jack's Joker was actually scary. He was hilarious one moment, and vicious and terrifying the next. Mark Hammil's Joker (Who I consider to be the best of all time) was similar to this.
But you can sympathize with Jack's Joker. . . You don't understand what I meant by comedy-character. Heath's Joker had plenty of subtle comedic moments, as well as a few larger ones (pencil trick, changing his backstory, etc.) but his brand of comedy was more fitting of The Joker; morbid. Jack's Joker's comedy is similar to that of a Jester's, something that, in the film, came abruptly.
It really is a matter of personal taste (though I don't think one can deny that Ledger's performance, whether you like his Joker or not, is on the level of some of the most iconic of all-time, while Nicholson's will remain as a classic comic-book performance). My favorite Joker comes in the form of The Dark Knight and Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore. I've never been a fan of superhero comic-book stories. I think the graphic-novel medium is above that. That's why I love a lot of the Batman stories; they are more human, detective stories, than superpowers and bravado. That's why I adore the work of Alan Moore.