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Batman: The Killing Joke | 
| Authors: Alan Moore, Brian Bolland
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  151 reviews
Sales Rank: 65
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Deluxe
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 7.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1401216676
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5941
EAN: 9781401216672
ASIN: 1401216676
Publication Date: March 19, 2008
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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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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 146 more reviews...
 Very Cool One-Shot August 4, 2008
Jonathon Sey
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There really isn't anything I an add that hasn't already been mentioned by other reviewer's: the comic looks great, the story is entertaining and provides (as far as I know) an unprecedented look into the origins of The Joker, and The Joker is just an awesome character in here. It is a bit short (you can probably finish it off in less than an hour, though I spent quite a bit of time examining the artwork) and a bit cliche (Batman and The Joker are the same) but still very enjoyable.
Check it out, it's well worth the $10 and the hour it takes to read it.
 Not Alan Moore's Best Work. Nor is it the best Batman story August 4, 2008
Rac A. Powsky (Texas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As much as I enjoyed this comic, there's a limitation placed on a writer when he has to work with established characters. Alan Moore said in an interview that he created Rorschach in Watchmen on the premise that Batman really is a sociopath. However, when Alan Moore has to write Batman himself, he can't make Batman a sociopath. He gets to have some fun with Joker's origin story, portraying him as a nebbish who went mad from the chemicals that bleached his skin white and turned his hair green (the standard origin story for the Joker - one that they don't bother to repeat in the current movie). There's also a fun torture sequence (I can't believe I wrote that) with the Joker trying to drive Commissioner Gordon mad.
However, there's not much else to this comic. It's about 64 pages of the Joker being the Joker. The artwork is great. Batman and the Joker are again portrayed as two sides of the same coin, which is true but also a rather tired cliche in most crime novels (as in Red Dragon where Hannibal Lector taunts the hero by saying he's just like him - except for all the cannibalism). And for $10, I would expect something a little more substantial from Alan Moore.
 Batman: The Killing Joke August 4, 2008
Nicholas Boni (Wallingford,CT)
Great insight into why the Joker may be who is is, very easy read should take about an hour.
My first comic ever... August 3, 2008
Darth Monkey (Ocoee, Fl United States)
My first ever comic. I loved it. Fell in love with it when I sat down in the book store to read it. I highly recommend it.
It's a comic book. July 30, 2008
JV (Visalia, CA)
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Sorry, I'd never read a graphic novel, and was told this was a very good one. So I opened it up and it was a comic book. Great story. Great Joker origin. Great theme. But it was a comic book.
Everybody's ga-ga for the illustrations, but it's just a comic book. Even then, some of the characters just had creepy grins in place of actual everyday facial expressions (Joker's wife).
The entire angle that all it takes is "one bad day" to drive an innocent person mad is great though, and they transposed it onto two different characters in the new movie quite well.
But basically this is an illustrated children's book but with a neat premise and violence.
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