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The Joker | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Azzarello
Creator: Lee Bermejo
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 111
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 128
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1401215815
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401215811
ASIN: 1401215815
Publication Date: November 4, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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pAn original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City--from the creative team behind the graphic novel iLex Luthor: Man of Steel/i./p pThe 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./p pBrian Azzarello brings to iThe Joker/i all the visceral intensity and criminal insight that has made his Vertigo graphic novel series i100 Bullets/i one of the most critically-acclaimed and award-winning series in all of comics./p p align="left" span class="h1"strongA Look Inside iThe Joker/i/strong/span brb(Click on Images to Enlarge)/b br /p pptable width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="50%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/RANDO/Joker_Spread_1_sm.gif" border="0" /td td width="50%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/RANDO/Joker_Spread_2_sm.gif" border="0" /td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="50%"A Disease That Infected Gotham City/td td width="50%"Pick Your Poison/td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="50%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/RANDO/Joker_Spread_3_sm.gif" border="0" /td td width="50%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/RANDO/Joker_Spread_4_sm.gif" border="0"/td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="50%"The Joker/td td width="50%"The News Spread/td /tr /table
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 NOT my Joker. November 22, 2008
Mikhyel (Richmond, Virginia United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll start with the good bits: br /1: The art is fantastic br /2: The story is... okay, I guess, although not very original. br / br /I need to mention at this point that Joker is, and always has been, my absolute favorite character from anything, period. My problem with this book is that this is not my Joker. He, in fact, takes very little from the Joker that I love. Among many other things, this Joker isn't funny; he doesn't even think he is, doesn't try to be. That, more than the color scheme or even the psychopathy, is the POINT of the Joker -- it doesn't count unless it's fun, and done with style. Which, by the way, is another thing that this Joker is lacking -- style. I don't mean how he dresses, that's fine, but he's just a thug, just another gangster. A crazy gangster, yes, but he just doesn't have "it". There are a few points that have a bit of that spark, but overall the comic just comes across as yet another violent gangster book, and it's been done before.
 Excellent. November 21, 2008
Mr. Nighttime (Parts Unknown, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Is the story short? Yes, it is...but it is not slight. The "Taking back what's mine" simplicity of the plot is merely a framework to hang a psychologically insightful look at one of comic's greatest villains, who is now greater. Please ignore the childish insistance of some "Geeks", who cannot fathom anything but their own myopic opinion, such as the villains remaining faithful to the last 40 or 50 years of "cannon". They are still the same great villains, but with a little modern "Twist" and I do mean twist. Some also condemn the fact that the Joker has-Gasp!-Sex! Leave it to the Americans to be OK with skinning a guy, but uptight that a psychopath may get sexual urges. This book shows the Joker to be more than a monster...he's also a man, a very disturbed man. I haven't enjoyed getting to know a twisted character so much since Patrick Bateman, or Hannibal Lecter. If you have an open mind, if you enjoy a macabre story, and if you have the cajones...spend some time with Joker.
Noir Take On the Clown Prince November 21, 2008
Joshua Rosenblum (Highland Park, NJ USA)
An interesting, if not stellar work. As can be expected from Azarello who pens the outstanding "100 Bullets," this take on The Joker is less a superhero tale than a gritty film noir with some rather eccentric characters. br / br /And it is noir. br / br /Like its predecessor "Batman: Broken City," Gotham is the filth encrusted urban hell that breaks the big time dreams of the small time hustlers, scammers and assorted losers. br / br /The story is told through the eyes of small-time gangster Johnny Frost who becomes enamored of The Joker, thinking that he can hitch his star to the Clown Prince as he violently tears through Gotham's underworld after his unexplained release from Arkham, looking to reestablish himself as the top criminal in the city. br / br /But, true to the noir trope, Johnny realizes only too late that The Joker is not simply an uber-racketeer with a pretty smile, but rather he's got his own agenda understood only to him - that brings madness and destruction eventually to all who enter his orbit. br / br /The characterization of The Joker is subtle because at first he just seems to be similar to Azzarello's reinterpretation of all the Rogue's Gallery as gangsters and molls. Only later does it become apparent that his behavior only makes sense (if you can call it that) in light of his relationship with The Batman. br / br /But still I was somehow left unsatisfied. Because if there is one thing that makes The Joker stand apart from the rest of the Gallery it is his complete lack of normal criminal motivation. In this book, The Joker just seems a little too "gangstery" (Although as noted before, this might be just because we are really only seeing The Joker through Johnny Frost's eyes.) br / br /I really enjoyed The Joker's cameo appearance in "Batman: Broken City" where, locked in a cell in Arkham, he does a turn as a sort of a green haired Hannibal Lecter, giving the impression to Bruce that he is controlling events on the outside somehow. br / br /Bermejo's artwork is excellent, moving back and forth between the standard pen and palette to outright oil paintings similar to Alex Ross. He has a gift for focusing on the details of a decaying Gotham and literally making the city a character in the story. br / br /All in all it's a good work.
 "Killing the Joke" November 19, 2008
W. Hancock (So. MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll start by saying Azzarello is a top notch writer, his work on 100 Bullets is absolutely legendary. I've followed the series since the beginning and it has kept me glued from panel one through the latest issue 97. It was a no brainer I would pick up the Joker, since his name is on it and the cover is just totally awesome. But after about half way through the story I felt like I was reading it just for the hope it may become even an inkling close to Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, which i read as a preteen and gave me a completely different perspective on the Joker's character. Like other reviewers have already pointed out, some of the Jokers actions seem senseless and forced, more for shock-value than adding anything to the story. The ending is contrived and you can see it coming a mile away, if you've ever read even a couple of Brian's 100 Bullets books. All in all, it wasn't horrible, wasn't nearly fantastic, it was just kinda there. I'd still recommend it as a quick read, just don't expect anything remotely groundbreaking.
 overrated November 17, 2008
Andrew Beal (Roseville, MI United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
overrated. period. br / br /art is excellent, story is short rather boring - no real depth or climax. mostly taking advantage of recent success of dark knight movie. br / br /not worth picking up.
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