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Joker Hardcover – Illustrated, November 4, 2008

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An original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City—from the creative team behind the graphic novel Lex Luthor: Man of Steel.

The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, and he's none to happy about what's happened to his Gotham City rackets while he's been "away." What follows is a harrowing night of revenge, murder and manic crime as only The Joker can deliver it, as he brutally takes back his stolen assets from The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face, Killer Croc and others.

Brian Azzarello brings to The Joker all the visceral intensity and criminal insight that has made his Vertigo graphic novel series 100 Bullets one of the most critically-acclaimed and award-winning series in all of comics.

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Building on Heath Ledgers performance in The Dark Knight (although long before the movies debut), Azzarello creates a memorably cringe-worthy story. Rather than a natty Clown Prince of Crime, this Joker looks like a glam rocker gone to toxic seed. Newly released from Arkham Asylum, he begins disorganizing the criminal establishment of Gotham City. Although he claims to want power and money when he confronts Two Face and his peers, he really seems just to enjoy playing with people—shooting them, setting them on fire or skinning them alive. Accompanying him is Jonny Frost, a young thug who takes a long time to recognize the drawbacks of seeing a vicious sociopath as a role model. Like Jonny, however, readers may find that, horrifying as the Joker is, they cant take their eyes off him. Even Batman, when he inevitably enters the action, functions largely as the Jokers partner in a dance of death. Azzarello has learned how to create a menacing, morally ambivalent atmosphere in his years of scripting 100 Bullets, and Bermejos jagged, shadow-saturated art sustains the mood. The result is fascinating but extremely dark. (Nov.)
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Batman’s preeminent foe comes to the fore, and the Caped Crusader makes only a fleeting appearance at the end in this graphic novel scripted by hard-boiled crime-comics author Azzarello that sees the Crime Clown, newly released from Arkham Asylum, attempting to take Gotham City back from the underworld figures who have carved it up in his absence. The story is told from the perspective of a small-time hood who stumbles into being the Joker’s henchman. Azzarello’s Joker hews closely to Heath Ledger’s portrayal in the film The Dark Knight. He’s a genuine psychopath, whose unpredictability is his strongest weapon. Chillingly cruel and criminally insane, he still isn’t so outré that he couldn’t conceivably exist in a non-comic-book world. Two-Face, the Penguin, and the Riddler are here, too, similarly muted compared to their usual comic-book personae and active in the most squalid version of Gotham City ever put on paper or celluloid, a sleazy milieu that Lee Bermejo’s deliberately ugly artwork, aided by a muddily muted color scheme, well realizes. --Gordon Flagg

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1401215815
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dc Comics (November 4, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781401215811
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401215811
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.9 x 0.46 x 10.45 inches

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Brian Azzarello has achieved both huge sales and acclaim with his comic 100 Bullets, and has also recently completed a run on Hellblazer, and Marvel's Cage. Lee Bermejo is the illustrator of Superman/Gen 13, and has contributed pin-ups to 100 Bullets and WildC.A.T.S.

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Bryon Devine

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 25, 2023

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Very good Joker story short but sweet.It would be great if the DC movies were as good as the Graphic novels..Enjoy this story I did.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2023

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Éste comic es la mera tos con flema! Es super genial, su historia, sus "historias tácitas", y obvio, su parte visual. Después de leerlo varias veces, te das cuenta de muchas cosas que están pasando, y lo disfrutas más, porque lo redescubres. Además, no es pretencioso el comic, es bueno por mérito propio

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David Swan

Even Better than The Killing Joke

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2008

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The Joker is an exceedingly difficult character to write and success has been rarely achieved. In order to capture the essence of The Joker a writer needs to descend into the far reaches of dark humor. The problem is that The Joker's psychology is meant to be so separated from accepted thinking that a normal, well adjusted writer finds it near impossible to arrive at that dark place and most of his `jokes' fall flat. It reminds me of why writers invariably fail to capture evil geniuses, because you have to be a genius to create believable dialogue like a genius. Another problem is that the comic Joker has developed such a cartoonish appearance with the elongated chin and purple pimp clothes that it's difficult to take him serious even when he's killing scores of people. It's like Jason and Michael Meyers. No one is scared of them because they're just cartoons. The more divorced from reality the less scary.

The movie The Dark Knight reinvented the Joker with a considerably toned down visual appearance and darker attitude. The Dark Knight had more than a few flaws, particularly in the scripting, but it positively nails The Joker who stole the show and helped the movie become the second highest grossing film of all time. Brian Azzarello's, Joker, is pulled from the movie with a grungy appearance, disgusting greasepaint, carved out grin and anarchist mentality. There are no more squirting flowers or electrocuting joy buzzers. Azzarello's Joker is also legitimately terrifying, like a rabid dog with a genius IQ. What can you do to The Joker, maim him? This one is already a mess. Could you threaten to kill him? The Joker is fully prepared to die.

The story is told from the view of a low level henchman named Jonny Frost who travels with The Jokers following his release from prison. This is not the canonized world of DC comics it's more of an elsewhere story existing somewhere between the regular comic and the world of the Dark Knight. My understanding is that Two Face did not survive the movie but he does appear in this story so already it clearly isn't a direct sequel. The other Batman villains including Killer Croc, The Penguin and The Riddler are written and drawn to be much more realistic in line with what you might expect in the movies.

Speaking as a huge fan of Alan Moore I have to say that this is a better interpretation of The Joker than the legendary `Killing Joke'. The Batman only makes an appearance in the last few pages and the encounter is perfect. It is clear throughout the book that The Joker rules the criminal roost even among the rogues gallery. He is smarter and more ruthless than anyone else but here in the last few moments The Joker finally meets his match and The Batman drops a line so perfect I wouldn't dare to reveal it here. In the end Jonny Frost learns that this is The Joker and The Batman's world, he was only living in it.

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Joker is psychotic

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The delivery was perfect and came in on time. The overall story of the comic was very intense and crazy to say the least.

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Joshua Rosenblum

Noir Take On the Clown Prince

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2008

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An interesting, if not stellar work. As can be expected from Azarello who pens the outstanding "100 Bullets," this take on The Joker is less a superhero tale than a gritty film noir with some rather eccentric characters.

And it is noir.

Like its predecessor "Batman: Broken City," Gotham is the filth encrusted urban hell that breaks the big time dreams of the small time hustlers, scammers and assorted losers.

The story is told through the eyes of small-time gangster Johnny Frost who becomes enamored of The Joker, thinking that he can hitch his star to the Clown Prince as he violently tears through Gotham's underworld after his unexplained release from Arkham, looking to reestablish himself as the top criminal in the city.

But, true to the noir trope, Johnny realizes only too late that The Joker is not simply an uber-racketeer with a pretty smile, but rather he's got his own agenda understood only to him - that brings madness and destruction eventually to all who enter his orbit.

The characterization of The Joker is subtle because at first he just seems to be similar to Azzarello's reinterpretation of all the Rogue's Gallery as gangsters and molls. Only later does it become apparent that his behavior only makes sense (if you can call it that) in light of his relationship with The Batman.

But still I was somehow left unsatisfied. Because if there is one thing that makes The Joker stand apart from the rest of the Gallery it is his complete lack of normal criminal motivation. In this book, The Joker just seems a little too "gangstery" (Although as noted before, this might be just because we are really only seeing The Joker through Johnny Frost's eyes.)

I really enjoyed The Joker's cameo appearance in "Batman: Broken City" where, locked in a cell in Arkham, he does a turn as a sort of a green haired Hannibal Lecter, giving the impression to Bruce that he is controlling events on the outside somehow.

Bermejo's artwork is excellent, moving back and forth between the standard pen and palette to outright oil paintings similar to Alex Ross. He has a gift for focusing on the details of a decaying Gotham and literally making the city a character in the story.

All in all it's a good work.

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Nikolai

Great book but came in rough shape

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2022

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This is my favorite joker interpretation with my favorite artist drawing him. The book is seriously an 11/10 but sadly all fours of my books corners came beat up. Beat up to the point where i need to buy another :(

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Cliente Kindle

Muito obrigado

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on April 19, 2020

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O livro é bom gostei recomendaria para meus amigos que ficam muito em casa e tbm gostaria que tivesse tradução para português esse livro

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NivNiv

The art is already worth buying for!

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on May 11, 2023

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The art style used is just top tier stuff, each pages has so much detail along with the story complimenting it all the way through, just the joker being joker but more for people who want a mature read

Epico man

Fantastic if your into the whole serious and crime side of the Joker!

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on March 6, 2022

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I honestly think this Joker strongly relates to TDK trilogy Joker and I honestly see Williem Dafoe playing this Joker! A fantastic story that focuses on how Joker runs his gang and a shocking ending. I honestly love this joker and is def a must read! If your really into the kind of criminal side of Joker so like golden age, this Joker really relates to that but just more serious and more crime. If you love Joker your gonna have to read this!

yusuf

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 18, 2021

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As you can see from my video I go in-depth and compare have this novel stacks up with others in terms of size print quality and overall aesthetic‘s.

The pages on joker are much more Matt than Luthor and batman white knight for examples.

I never review stories because that comes back to personal bias.

Overall I would say this paperback version is the best if you are not sure if you would like the story or not. The only compromise is size & extras with this version

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robert

Ok. But Not Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 24, 2016

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This is a stand alone story as far as I am aware, and it should stay that way. Not the best Joker comic, the story seems like it was taken from the plot of a gangster film and it is just not that interesting. Harley Quinn, Killer croc, Two face and the penguin make guest appearances, although the penguin is given a different name for some reason and only Killer croc really does anything. The Jokers look is partially taken from The Dark Night movie. I would only recommend this comic if you have bought a lot of Joker comics before and this is the only one left that you want to buy, but if you are buying your first joker comic, then I recommend The killing joke or The man who laughs. There are other great Joker comics as well. 5/10

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