Title: Batman - The Killing Joke
One-Shot
Release Date: June 1988
Highlights- Batman goes to Arkham Asylum to have a deep conversation with Joker about them ultimately killing each other and discovers he's escaped
- Joker's origin revealed - Or is it? Joker himself says sometimes he remembers it one way, sometimes another. He prefers to have a multiple choice past
- Joker obtains his carnival "home"
- Joker comes to Commissioner Gordon's house, shoots Barbara and takes the Commissioner with him
- Barbara becomes paralyzed from the waist down
- In a flashback of his origin, Joker dawns the garb of Red Hood
- Batman gives Joker one last chance to let him help him, but he declines
- Joker makes Batman laugh with a joke
- Disturbing images and story - Don't read this if you have any aversions to graphic scenes
- Story ends abruptly and with very little resolution or epilogue beyond Joker obviously being captured again
Oddities
- None
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I got this one when it first came out... It was a game changer for sure. I was stunned at what happened to Barbara and the fact that this was allowed to have ongoing consequences for the character for so long!
ReplyDeleteI saw the animated movie first, then graduated to the comic. So for me, it wasn't until recent that I got exposed.
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