Batman: The Killing Joke is the second batman story I have read. The art in this story is fantastic. Crisp, clean, detailed, absolutely beautiful. The story actually gives one of what could be many origin stories to the Joker. That is just the thing about the joke, you can never believe what he says. If you have see the movie the Dark Knight, Heather Ledger plays the joker and give two or three different accounts of how he got the scars on his face. Same in this story. Though we only are told of one origin, we don't know if its true. This story shows a thoughtful side of Batman. It starts off with him going to see the joke to "discuss" there relationship. As Batman see's it, either he will end up killing Joker or the Joker will end up killing him and he doesn't want either. The story and some of the images were rather dark and disturbing. This isn't a book for children. It definetly has a more mature content to it. All in all it was a good buy.
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