The Dark Knight

[Sforza]

To make it clear, if it didn't come out in the post enough, I am. Of Batman at least.

Come to think of it, why hasn't anyone created a Batman thread in the past? Would have made for pretty nice discussion.

Actually, the Joker in the Killing Joke is really more akin to Jack Nicholson's rendition. Yes he killed people, he had the same maniacal tendencies and he still tackled societal themes, but that Joker came off less dark than Nolan's version of it - in the novel he really was more of an evil clown than a crime kingpin. Even Tim Burton said that this book was a great part of the inspiration for him to do the original Batman film then, so what he read eventually translated to what Nicholson portrayed.

I agree with Antonio, I felt that this was the first Joker that really posed a problem for Bats.

I made the reference to The Killing Joke because I felt that it was the only title most people would recognize precisely because of the reference Burton made to it. In storylines during post Crisis on Infinite Earths, Joker's generally always posed a problem for Batman because they're supposed to be mirror images of each other and the writers have been consistent at it, as recently as the Hush series and even Justice. Read the comics and you'll probably agree with me, that this isn't anything new. That's all I've been trying to say.