The Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke - Hardcover/Slipcase - 30th Anniversary Edition

Alan Moore, Brian Bolland

DC Comics

2018

152 páginas

5h 4m

ISBN-13: 9781401284121

One of the best-selling graphic novels of all time finally gets the Absolute treatment, as BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is presented in a 30th Anniversary hardcover slipcase edition!

Critically acclaimed writer Alan Moore redefined the superhero with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker--and changes Batman's world forever. 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 his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it.

Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. Can he finally put an end to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic foes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman's nobility and The Joker's insanity snap once and for all?

Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke collects:
- Batman: The Killing Joke
- Batman: Black & White #4
- Countdown #31
- Who's Who in the DC Universe #13

Bonus material:
- Brian Bolland's new coloring from the Deluxe Edition
- The original John Higgins coloring
- All 128 pages of the script that has never been published before
- Brian Bolland's Joker covers and sketches
- Previously unpublished Bolland Batman/Joker sketches

Resenhas (17)

5 (Perfeito)

Cruel e singular

Eu tô embasbacada de o quão boa essa HQ é. Eu já tinha ouvido falar muito bem dela e já sabia o que acontecia, mas saber o que iria acontecer e realmente ler são coisas definitivamente diferentes.
"The Killing Joke" é impactantemente cruel e singular. Não me restou dúvidas do que aconteceu no final, tanto pelo nome da HQ já ser bem sugestivo, tanto pela arte incrível da última página que brinca com as luzes e faz alusão à piada que o Coringa acabara de contar.
O acerto do Coringa sobre o "one bad day" do Batman (já que sabemos o porquê de ele ter se tornado o vigilante) é certamente muito interessante também.
Eu poderia passar horas falando bem dessa HQ, mas por enquanto é isso. Recomendo muito! *cuidado com gatilhos*