YOU CAN LOCK THEM AWAY.Īnd the ending, it’s all about the ending. YOU CAN JUST STEP OUTSIDE, AND CLOSE THE DOOR ON ALL THOSE DREADFUL THINGS THAT HAPPENED. SO WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF LOCKED ONTO AN UNPLEASANT TRAIN OF THOUGHT, HEADING FOR THE PLACES IN YOUR PAST WHERE THE SCREAMING IS UNBEARABLE, REMEMBER THERE'S ALWAYS MADNESS. This is a great origin story, one that fully lives up to the character immense personality. The Joker became ruined and lost himself in his nasty deeds. It wasn’t long before petty crime turned to murder and butchery. That first step into the darkness led to many other steps down the road of corruption. And like many people he was forced to turn to crime he was forced to break society's rules in order to survive. He had a girlfriend he had a job, but the world shitted on him somewhat chronic. But, I think we all know who is intended victim actually is. The first man he wants to reduce is the stalwart Commissioner Gordon. He wants to show humanity that they are not that far from him. And the Joker, being the sly and brilliant villain that he is, wants to share the experience with the world. Once you’ve crossed that threshold then things will never be the same again. One push, one snap, one descent into chaos and it’s over. It’s such a simple idea, but so real and powerful.

That's how far the world is from where I am. Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight’s closest friends.“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.

And he’s going to use Gotham City’s top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he’s out to prove his deranged point. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that’s all that separates the sane from the psychotic. ALAN MOORE (WATCHMEN, V FOR VENDETTA) and BRIAN BOLLAND (CAMELOT 3000) take on the origin of comics’ greatest super-villain, The Joker-and changes Batman’s world forever. Presented in stark black and white, BATMAN NOIR: THE KILLING JOKE collects BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, “An Innocent Man” story, and a collection of Bolland’s Batman covers.

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