Batman: The Killing Joke
- Title: Batman: The Killing Joke
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A stand-alone one-shot written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland, Batman: The Killing Joke is the most overrated Batman story ever printed. Very much a product of its time, the story features the Joker (Mark Hamill) finally going “too far.” I’m not saying the story is bad, in fact it works in the way Moore and Bolland intended and explores the destructive relationship between Batman (Kevin Conroy) and the Joker in unexpected ways. However, it also make several decisions which are hard to excuse even nearly three decades later – predominantly turning Barbara Gordon (Tara Strong) into nothing more than a victim.
Given it’s gruesome subject matter in which Commissioner Gordon‘s (Ray Wise) daughter is paralyzed in front of him before being forced to relive the moment over and over in the Joker’s carnival of horrors, the 48-page story (including many panels without any dialogue) seems an odd choice to stretch into a feature.
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