Batman: The Killing Joke

April 24th, 2008 · View Comments · Comics and Graphic Novels

I have to admit, Batman: The Killing Joke was a bit underwhelming for me.
It’s not that it wasn’t good, or it wasn’t worth the money I paid. Quite the contrary. It was both of those, and how. The origin of Batman’s crazy archnemesis told in an equally manic fashion garners a buy from me anyday. [...]

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Who Watches the Watchmen?

March 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Comics and Graphic Novels

So I just finished reading Watchmen, and I have to say, it is one of the deepest graphic novels I’ve read.

Most of the novels that float around now, while having their own artistic and literary merits, tend to focus too much on fantastic and otherworldly concerns. There’s too little social relevance. Now that might not [...]

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