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¨This classic, infamous story in the "Batman" saga has been recolored with a more effectively cooler palette and set into context with an introduction and an afterword. Escaped from Arkham Asylum, villain deluxe Joker shoots Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon as part of his plan to drive her police commissioner father insane. Intending to prove that anyone can go mad after "one bad day" as he describes in his putative origin story, the Joker also kidnaps and torments Commissioner Gordon. But Gordon remains sane, and Batman recaptures the Jokerthe two actually share a laugh at the ambiguous ending. With Barbara Gordon now a paraplegic, the story stands as a chilling profile of madness. "The Killing Joke" provoked fury among many readers who lamented the disposal of Barbara Gordon as a mere pawn to testosterone; yet Gordon reinvents herself later as superinfohacker Oracle, poster girl for disability empowerment (see "Birds of Prey, LJ" 7/08). A bonus story at the end paints the quieter, equally chilling madness of a Batman fan fantasizing about killing the superheroa perfect foil for the publicly gaudy Joker.
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Tekijä | Moore, Alan & Bolland, Brian |
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Kustantaja | DC Comics |
Sivuja | 64 |
Sidosasu | Kovakantinen |
Väritys | 4-v. |
Kieli | Englanti |
Julkaisuvuosi | 2008 |
ISBN | 978-1-4012-1667-2 |