The Killing Joke

If you've been paying attention to the Comics Controversy Meter over the past few weeks (a scientific system that measures outrage in milihudsons), you may recall that Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke has been the topic of a whole lot of debate lately. People have raised questions about authorial intent, ambiguity, interpretation, continuity and a whole lot of other stuff, but I thi

In case you haven't heard yet, Grant Morrison recently offered his take on the end of The Killing Joke, the seminal 1988 story from Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. Widely considered one of the greatest Batman stories -- and possibly the greatest Joker story -- of all time, the ending is, arguably, a bit ambiguous. In an interview on Kevin Smith's "Fatman on Batman," Morrison said he belie

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man here -- or a grumpier, older man than I normally sound, anyway -- but seriously, these kids today have it a lot more awesome than I did. In my day, we had to write essays with pens and paper, but today's youngsters, like ComicsAlliance reader Oscar Andrés Rodríguez are learning to adapt The Killing Joke into the medium of shadow puppetry! Along wi...