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The Killing Joke is Batman at his best
Batman:
The
Killing
Joke
—
The
Deluxe
Edition
Alan
Moore,
Brian
Bolland
DC
Comics
$21.99/$17.99
US
(Hardcover)
*****
(out
of
five)
The
Killing
Joke
is
one
of
the
most
perfect
Batman
comics
ever
published.
Really.
Ask
anybody.
Except
for
its
artist.
This
stand-alone
story,
originally
published
in
1988,
beautifully
interwove
a
flashback
tale
that
revealed
the
origin
of
the
Joker
with
his
current
villainous
plan
to
drive
one
of
the
noblest
men
in
Gotham
City
—
police
commissioner
Jim
Gordon
—
insane.
Written
by
comic
book
icon
Alan
Moore
(Watchmen,
V
For
Vendetta)
and
breathtaking
illustrated
by
gifted
cover
artist
Brian
Bolland
(Camelot
3000),
The
Killing
Joke
is
utterly
chilling
in
its
depiction
of
the
Clown
Price
of
Crime
and
how
one
horrible
day
turned
him
from
a
soon-to-be
dad
and
husband
into
a
psychotic
killer.
Of
course
as
good
as
all
this
sounds,
nothing
is
ever
perfect.
Bolland,
due
to
time
constraints
back
in
’88,
couldn’t
do
the
colouring
himself
on
the
book,
resulting
in
a
finished
product
he
was
never
that
happy
with.
Now,
with
this
book
said
to
be
one
of
the
main
inspirations
for
the
pending
summer
blockbuster,
The
Dark
Knight,
starring
Christian
Bale
as
Batman
and
the
late
Heath
Ledger
as
the
Joker,
Bolland’s
original
vision
—
one
far
more
suited
to
the
material
—
has
finally
been
delivered
in
a
deluxe
hardcover
edition
befitting
this
all-time
classic.
-
DMZ
Vol.
4:
Friendly
Fire
Brian
Wood,
Riccardo
Burchielli,
Nathan
Fox,
Viktor
Kalvachev,
Kristian
Donaldson
Vertigo/DC
Comics
$15.99/$12.99
US
(Paperback)
****
(out
of
five)
The
United
States
of
America
lost
a
war
on
Day
204
and
now
someone
is
going
to
swing
for
it.
The
young-but-increasingly
bitter
Matty
Roth,
the
only
journalist
living
and
working
in
the
DMZ
that
used
to
be
New
York
City
after
the
second
American
civil
war,
is
about
to
get
the
story
of
a
lifetime.
He
gets
to
interview
the
lone
soldier
charged
after
198
peace
protesters
were
gunned
down
on
Day
204
of
the
conflict
in
what
was
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