6/20/2023 0 Comments Alan moore brian bolland![]() ![]() ![]() Centred on the premise that One Bad Day (yes the capital letters are necessary) can alter an individual’s sanity and life thereafter, The Killing Joke seeks to flashback to the Joker’s own past to unpick this foe’s motivation and set up his very own “origin story”, as well as showing him testing out his One Bad Day hypothesis on the unfortunate Commissioner Gordon. Just one bad day.”īatman: The Killing Joke takes the relationship between the masked man and his nemesis, The Joker, exploring the motivations behind the latter’s scarily chaotic morality. That’s how far the world is from where I am. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. ![]() Genre: graphic novel comic book superheroesĪs a person whose only exposure to Batman is centred entirely around Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale’s take on the caped crusader and on the brilliant-but-terrible-really TV series Batman and Robin, I’m not exactly the intended audience for this beautifully illustrated deluxe edition of Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke. Regardless of this rather important fact, I can appreciate both the creepiness of the art style and the ingenuity of the story crafting at work in this comic book. Title: Batman: The Killing Joke (1988/2008 deluxe edn.)Īuthor: Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, Richard Starkings ![]()
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