For Wednesday: Moore, The Killing Joke

For Wednesday, be sure and read the (much shorter) The Killing Joke, which you might consider less a Batman comic than a Joker one (though they share an important relationship in the book). This book is considered, along with Miller's The Dark Knight Returns (1986), to be one of the comics that rebooted Batman's image and helped set a new direction for comics. However, it's not easy reading and some people find it very disturbing! So read with caution...

Interesting, Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) has more or less disowned the comic and finds it today "too nasty...too physically violent." Read more about his current thoughts about the book and see if you agree here: https://www.inverse.com/article/14967-alan-moore-now-believes-the-killing-joke-was-melodramatic-not-interesting