As much as the latter has bright colours and clean lines, Joker has dark colours and rough, gritty imagery. The first thing that comes to mind is how different the art in Joker is from The Killing Joke – that other essential Joker story. As with any graphic novels, the first impressions always have to do with the art, it is the reader’s (at least this reader’s) first impulse to go through the book and just LOOK at it, no reading involved. Unfortunately the book wasn’t going to be out in the UK till early December so Thea mailed it to me – that’s how much she wanted me to read it. To lift a Jerry McGuire line–since Heath Ledger’s Joker did it in the film with “You complete me,”– Joker had me at hello.Īna: Thea is my Graphic Novel pimp and when she told me about Joker, I wanted to read it immediately.
And the Joker isn’t the only one who’s marvelously portrayed here–there’s this new vision of Killer Croc, a sort of Tokyo Drift vision of Edward Nigma that I adored (I mean I adored the version of The Riddler here, not Tokyo Drift), and–perhaps my favorite–the buxom, deranged Harley Quinn. Ledger used in the film, on every page of this remarkable book.
Azzello’s writing conjures a pill-popping maniac, and I can almost hear the drawl and cackle Mr. Indeed, Bermejo’s artistic interpretation of the Joker even mimics Heath Ledger’s portrayal in The Dark Knight–flaking, caked on makeup, rumpled suit, mossy, grimy hair. In the vein of Christopher Nolan’s rebirth of Batman in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Azzarello’s Joker is grainy, gritty, and completely socio-pathologically insane–without the more comic incantations. I was already predisposed to love this book from the writing and artistic team alone, but I was unprepared for this darker, more intense take on the Joker. Not since THE KILLING JOKE have you seen such a powerful tale of The Joker – you won’t want to miss this one!
Look for appearances by a slew of Gotham’s most wanted, including gritty takes on Two-Face, Riddler, Killer Croc, Penguin, Harley Quinn and even Batman! Not content to settle for a piece of the pie, The Joker vows to take back the whole damn enchilada by any means necessary. In the all-new, hardcover original graphic novel JOKER, writer Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS) and artist Lee Bermejo (HELLBLAZER covers) – the creative team behind the acclaimed miniseries LEX LUTHOR: MAN OF STEEL – show an even darker and more disturbing side to the most dangerous man in Gotham: The Joker.Īfter yet another stint in Arkham Asylum, The Joker finds “his city” divided among mobsters and costumed villains.
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