Superheroes

Batman The Killing Joke

My first reaction to this comic was that it was going to be another comic on Batman that has a lot of action to it, but really all the fighting happened at the end and it was short, this comic was more of a psychological narrative, and I really enjoyed the writing that it gave towards the Joker and his madness. He made logical points throughout his madness and how he came to be, and couldn't understand why he was the mad one when his logical made sense. I liked that we were able to have some insight to who the Joker used to be and how he came to be the villain, there are some more hidden secrets that he has but we finally get to see his background because throughout the movies that we see him in we don't really know anything about him, and within this comic he doesn't know either, maybe his madness made him forget or he is using his madness to forget. This story really brings into account the way humanity can be altered by one occurrence and change someone for the better or worse which is personified by Batman and The Joker. Batman having a traumatic experience of his parents dying in front of him and instead of that destroying his moral compass it strengthens it to protect others and have that injustice not happen to any one else. With the Joker it makes him insane, but he had help with the chemical plant that pushed him over the line.


Joker's backstory seems to ordinary for him but I guess that pushes him to be extraordinary in his mechanics of evil and trickery. This story does make your emotions towards the Joker go up and down, with what he did to Barbra was really evil and sinister, and it was all to get a rise out of the Commissioner, and you realize that this is really cruel for the Joker because what we have seen and read of the Joker he's crazy not cruel to this point so it really makes you hate him and want him to be put away or just for him to die, because I don't want him to be rehabilitated or saved because he is an iconic character and just for him to be saved and for him to change his ways is too boring for him to go through that. His background doesn't necessarily bring sympathy to me but more of understanding of what got him to where he is, we still don't know if he just accepted his new life after the jump in the chemical waste or that he struggled with his new identity but either way his flashbacks made the viewer humanize the Joker, that he had a name before he was the Joker, a family, ordinary problems, and ordinary emotions.


I like the medium that was used in this comic it was very dark and creepy which fit in with the Joker vibe that was happening, if I was to change it to a different medium it would have to be paint, I would keep the dark tones and the lighting that was happening and just use the splotchy messy quality that paint can have on moments such as the Joker, he would always be imperfect in the paint quality, so there will be smudges around him and when it goes to his flashbacks it will have a translucent quality to understand the flashback narrative being that. Batman would always be perfectly structured with the paint, there will be no outlines anywhere, to justify his fortitude.