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More copies of this ISBN:Jokerby Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"Building on Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight (although long before the movie's 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 can't take their eyes off him. Even Batman, when he inevitably enters the action, functions largely as the Joker's 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 Bermejo's jagged, shadow-saturated art sustains the mood. The result is fascinating but extremely dark." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"One of the best written and illustrated comics to come out of a major publishing house this year." The San Jose Mercury News Review:"[T]he 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." Booklist Review:"Terrific and disturbing." The Village Voice Review:"Joker is the closest print approximation of The Dark Knight movie available, both in its mixture of the superhero and gangster film genres...and in the character design and actions of the eponymous anti-hero... (Rating: 4/5 stars)" ICv2.com Review:"As a spiritual sequel to this summer's movie, or as, perhaps, a deranged counter-argument, Joker works quite well. It's a beautifully ugly graphic novel, suitably so. But it's certainly not perfect, although I'm sure the Joker wouldn't have it any other way." ComicBookResources.com Review:"[A] well-conceived, hard hitting tale.... Synopsis:From the creative team behind Lex Luthor: Man of Steel comes this original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark and troubling night in Gotham City.
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