Brian Azarello's Joker Continues the Spirit of the Dark Knight

Arts&Entertainment ------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Azarello’s Joker continues the spirit of The Dark Knight BY GARY SUNDT • THE LUM8ERJACK I don’t think I’m going to get too many head back to Gotham City. less like a nerd and more like a pimp. Harley hate letters if I say The Dark Knight changed Upon re-entry, the Joker quickly finds Quinn is a stripper. the bee of comic book cinema. If nothing else, out Harvey Two-Face has taken the reigns of This is not a Batman tale; the Caped the widely successful blockbuster changed the Gothams criminal underworld. After learn Crusader doesn’t appear until the very end. face of the Joker, Batmans nemesis and one of ing this, the clown outlines his goals ~ to take This is a story for people who loved Ledgers the most important characters in comic book back control of “his" city - and illustrates the Joker and are looking for the next chapter in history. Readers will never again glance over a means by which he plans to attain them (he that characters book. However, understand Joker story without thinking of the late Heath skins one of his less-than-satisfactory lackeys there is a lot of brutality to behold when you Ledgers iconic portrayal of the Clown Prince alive). Joker details just how the psycho got his let the clown out of the PG-13 box. There are of Crime. It is only appropriate, then, that a Gotham back, as told through the eyes of his moments in Joker that arc vile, disgusting, new 128-page graphic novel, Joker, has been second-in-command. Frost disturbing and always violent, but Azzarello released, where the camp has been left in the Artist Lee Bermejo has drav.-r.. Joker in handles them in ways that offer the reader a dust, and the Jokei u a pill-popping, psycho the spirit uT the recent Batman films, recre glimpse into the psyche of the unapologetic pathic, schizophrenic murderer. ating the city of Gotham and its inhabitants madman. At one point, Johnny realizes how The book, which was written by 100 with a senseof gritty realism. Gotham City is crazy he was to have wanted to be like the Jok Bullets author Brian Azzareilo, chronicles the a bleak slum rather than the glorious city we er. After this book, one understands just how . Jokers most recent release from Arkham Asy have previously seen in comic books. While insane that desire really is. lum, where he has somehow cominced the the concept art for this comic was prepared The story ofJoker is not anything espe doctors he is no longer insar^. The narrator, months before The Dark Knight had released cially groundbreaking, but one should never a thug by the name of Johnny Frost, picks up a single production still, the redesigns of Joker discount a story well-told. What is actually the down as he exits the gates of the nuthouse, and Two-Face are strikingly similar. The other gained from Azarello and Bermejos talc is the complete with the scars and make-up we know Batman rogues who show up in this book have realization that, after Ledgers performance, so well from last summer’s film. The two make received similar revamps. Killer Croc is now a the Joker has become a character independent fast friends (he gives the Joker a gun), and they large black with scales. The Riddler looks of the Batman legacy. SUDOKU ion. UBOO* fifC®MPPOQOPI1l(S f a ftKffifff 86001 5 7 4 928.913.0300 1501 S. Till ST. fUKiSIIff 86001 92&774.8787 3 8 2 6 Urt Flagstaff? Hud (toff printed for k IimI? Me cm prto mrjtliit fnm jm pbitii t» kM pnjeffi! -9 8 Local Color, located in downtown Flagstaff, 4 3 provides you with the BEST Flagstaff 9 4 8 2 apparel, books, AEC Reprographics, less and souvenirs! than a minute from NAU, 6 2 can provide you with the best service, best prices, and best quality prints! 8 3 We*re always the cheapest in town! 1 3 5 6 m£C th m m m mmmi AmmaI hbocbu gcr 10% on cvfry tningT cvtry mnc! 2 7 1 26.

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