Brian Azarello's Joker, Cover by Patricia Mulvihill

The night Joker was released from Arkham, the dregs sent some nobody named Jonny Frost to go pick him up and show him around town.  Joker had caught wind that most of his assets, and by that I mean to say his city, had been snatched up by a few unscrupulous chums looking to get ahead while the clown was away.  So sets the stage for the Brian Azarello and Lee Bermejo “Joker.”

Released near Dark Knight, the book seemed to have slipped under the radar of most comic aficionados, perhaps over shadowed by Alan Moore’s representation of the Joker from Killing Joke.  That is part of what makes “Joker” so successful.  Let’s face it kids, Alan Moore’s Joker shot Barbara Gordon in the spine.  How much darker can you get with the clown prince?
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