Alan Moore and Brian Bolland gifted the world with a stark and troubling look at one of comic’s most iconic, and dark villains in Batman: The Killing Joke way back in 1988. While this is a Batman title, the issue is clearly about the Joker, at least to this reader. This New York Times bestseller … [Read more…]
Batman has seen countless iterations over his 75 years since his creation by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. We’ve seen him in comic books, TV shows, movies and cartoons. He’s been in blue, gray, black, silver and white. Despite, or more likely because of, all of these variations there is still much heated debate about … [Read more…]
The timing of this post really has nothing to do with the upcoming release of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises. It has more to do with a debate I read about which Joker was better, and someone saying, I kid you not, “You only like Ledger in that movie because he died.” Really, no kidding. … [Read more…]