With Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice finally seeing its R-rated “Ultimate Edition” come to home video (and briefly to theaters), there is renewed attention to the movie’s grittier depiction of Batman, as well as just how many people the Dark Knight killed during its three-hour run time. There is another gritty, R-rated Batman movie on its way to home video in the near future, though: The animated adaptation of the classic Alan Moore-penned Batman: The Killing Joke.
The original graphic novel, released in 1988, was as much responsible for ushering in the era of darker Batman comics that led up to Batman V Superman as was Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. The artwork by illustrator Brian Bolland had a more surreal, nightmarish quality to it than Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s work on The Dark Knight, but Bolland’s signature style has been jettisoned for The Killing Joke‘s movie adaptation. Now a new ...
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