Comic Of The Day

“The Killing Joke” (Batman: The Killing Joke) The Killing Joke is a remarkable one-off story by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland that works as basically a Joker origin story (“basically” because it has never been officially determined that this version of the Joker’s origin story is the TRUE origin of the Joker), showing events that turned a decent enough guy down on his luck into

the madman known as the Joker.
The Joker loos at his own circumstances and develops a theory – he became the Joker because, in effect, he had one really bad day. Therefore, could he break a good man by giving THAT man just “one bad day,” as well? The man that the Joker chooses to test his theory on is Commissioner Gordon, which leads to one of the most famous sequences in DC Comics history…


We then see how the Joker becomes the Joker in the past while we intercut with the modern day Joker torturing Gordon. Batman rescues Gordon but we see that the Joker did not win – he did not break Gordon…

However, can Batman bring himself to just bring the Joker in one more time after what the Joker did today? When the two men share a joke, is it really the final joke that they’ll ever share?
Bolland took a long time to draw this series (well worth the wait) so this project would be difficult to be any more hyped than it was when it finally came out (Alan Moore doing a Batman graphic novel with Brian Bolland?!?!) and yet it still managed to exceed the hype.