Batman
the killing joke
by Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, John Higgins, Richard Starkings · first published 1988
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A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller! Presented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Brian Bolland, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and the Commissioner's brilliant
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…unrelated, but way less scary note.... "Doomsday Clock #3" is out today from D.C. comics. It's a mega event that crosses characters from Alan Moore's The Watchmen with more traditional D.C. characters like Batman and Superman. I'm enjoying it quite a bit even though its exploitative and somewhat tarnishes the legacy of the greatest comic book of all time.
on “Scientists move Doomsday Clock ahead to 2 minutes to midnight” ↗There's an old Justice League Graphic Novel by Alan Moore (I think) I read about 20 years ago. I don't remember the plot, but I remember a scene where most of the heroes - excepting Batman - are in the Pentagon addressing some threat. J'onn J'onzz (Martian Man Hunter) notices Batman lurking in a shadow somewhere who wanted to see what was going on without interference. MMH asks him how…
on “Enclave: An Unpickable Lock” ↗> a block universe I first encountered this theory and the related "eternalism" philosophy via Alan Moore [1] (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell, etc.). Watchmen and its non-Moore-affiliated sequel have a lot of riffs on time and determinism. Q: Jerusalem deals with the idea of eternalism: everything that has happened…
on “On the Nature of Time” ↗…publish an anti-drug PSA in a Spiderman book - the Comics Code Authority lost their power and we were able to publish comic books for adults in the US again. Anyway, Alan Moore wrote a really gritty Batman book and kicked off a rush to capitalize on a growing adult comics wave. This, along with a bunch of people realizing that old #1s of comics published during Baby Boomers' childhoods[5] were super rare…
on “America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?” ↗