![]() ![]() ![]() All in all, it remains just as poignant and haunting as it did when first released. When he sits on a throne made of baby dolls with the naked Commissioner Gordon chained up and kneeling at his feet, it's hard to say he's been any more twisted in his entire career. I won't get into whether Moore was right or wrong to include that, but I do believe it drives home the depths of Joker's evil. ![]() It's horrifying and disturbing, just like it was meant to be. Well, not just paralyzing, but also stripping naked and pasting his photos on the walls to torment her father. ![]() The biggest controversy of this story was the Joker paralyzing Barbara Gordon. The origin story and the present-day crime are like polar opposites, showing the Joker as a younger man struggling to support his family, and also as the ruthless Joker kidnapping and killing in a twisted joke. He made the psychopathic serial killer, the Joker, almost sympathetic while simultaneously making him completely horrible. Moore did what was once thought to be impossible. " Batman: The Killing Joke," published in 1988, is one of Alan Moore's most famous stories. ![]()
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