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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401216672
Edition: Deluxe
ISBN: 1401216676
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: March 19, 2008
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Studio: DC Comics
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This classic, infamous story in the Batman saga has been recolored with a more effectively cooler palette and set into context with an introduction and an afterword. Escaped from Arkham Asylum, villain deluxe Joker shoots Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon as part of his plan to drive her police commissioner father insane. Intending to prove that anyone can go mad after "one bad day" as he describes in his putative origin story, the Joker also kidnaps and torments Commissioner Gordon. But Gordon remains sane, and Batman recaptures the Jokerthe two actually share a laugh at the ambiguous ending. With Barbara Gordon now a paraplegic, the story stands as a chilling profile of madness. The Killing Joke provoked fury among many readers who lamented the disposal of Barbara Gordon as a mere pawn to testosterone; yet Gordon reinvents herself later as superinfohacker Oracle, poster girl for disability empowerment (see Birds of Prey, LJ 7/08). A bonus story at the end paints the quieter, equally chilling madness of a Batman fan fantasizing about killing the superheroa perfect foil for the publicly gaudy Joker. For adult collections.M.C.
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The Killing Joke, one of my favorite Batman stories ever, stirred a bit of controversy because the story involves the Joker brutally, pointlessly shooting Commissioner Gordon's daughter in the spine. This is a no-holds-barred take on a truly insane criminal mind, masterfully written by British comics writer Alan Moore. The art by Brian Bolland is so appealing that his depiction of the Joker became a standard and was imitated by many artists to follow.
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Beautifully drawn. Cleverly written. A timeless classic. Brian Bolland went back and added additional figures to his panels. It would be fun to compare an earlier version of this work to see who the new people are.
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Skip this unless you're a collector. Amazon carries the 2006 edition of DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, which includes this and many other excellent works.
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Batman: The Killing Joke is by far one of the greatest one-shot graphic novels ever written, Moore is fortunate that it was of such caliber as to deserve inclusion in the mainstream Batman canon.
The Joker is the single most evil non-superpowered being in the DC universe, and almost nothing is known about who he was before becoming the arch-nemesis of Batman. While curiosity abounds for fans, even more prefer that he maintain this aura of mystery since it is believed that his pre-villain life ... Read More
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This Batman story is really messed up. Give it a try if you're any kind of fan of Batman.
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I hemmed and hawed over giving this 4 or 5 stars. If Amazon allowed it, I'd have selected 4 1/2. In roughly 48 pages, the story takes you through the Joker's origin (told in flashbacks) and the evil clown's present-day kidnap and torture of comissioner Gordon.
The artwork is drop dead amazing. I can't even describe it. It's as if the pages are animated, somehow. They're that vivid. Some old school fans hate how DC let Brian Bolland go back and re-color the latest edition. Me, I love the ... Read More
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