Batman: The Killing Joke

Alan Moore · Brian Bolland

Mar 2008 · Batman: The Killing Joke Issue #1 · DC

About this ebook

A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller!

Presented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Brian Bolland, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy.
 
According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and the Commissioner’s brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it.

Ratings and reviews

Capturing the eternal struggle between the greatest pair in comics, The Killing Joke lays out their relation like no other. Two men at constant odds come closer than ever as Alan Moore humanizes these characters, and cause us to question our own morality and choices. This edition also benefits from the masterful coloring of the original artist Brian Bolland, and is worth it to see the world envisioned in his colors.

A classic then; a classic now. BATMAN: The Killing Joke will undoubtedly take its rightful place in the annals of graphic storytelling as one of, if not a watershed moment in the medium where "everything changed." A must read for any Batman / Joker fan who wishes to delve much deeper into what indeed makes these 2 personalities "click." Any library is incomplete without this on their bookshelf.

Iv wanted to read this story for years now I was so hyped up that I finally bought it after so long.. Then I read it and was sort of disappointed.. I'm not saying is wasn't good it was I just had expected more. If your a big (Batman/Joker) fan like me then then its still worth reading at the very least u can say you've read it before