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Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. 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. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker, and changes Batman's world forever.Īccording to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic.

For adult collections.Critically acclaimed author Alan Moore redefined graphic novel story-telling with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. A bonus story at the end paints the quieter, equally chilling madness of a Batman fan fantasizing about killing the superhero-a perfect foil for the publicly gaudy Joker. The Killing Joke provoked fury among many readers who lamented th e 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). With Barbara Gordon now a paraplegic, the story stands as a chilling profile of madness. But Gordon remains sane, and Batman recaptures the Joker-the two actually share a laugh at the ambiguous ending. 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. Escaped from Arkham Asylum, villain deluxe Joker shoots Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon as part of his plan to drive her police commissioner father insane. 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.