The comic opens with Batman going to Arkham Asylum to visit with the Joker and talk over their future. He believes that one day one of them will kill the other and he's looking for another way out of this situation. Then he realizes that he isn't talking to the Joker at all but someone dressed up as the Joker. When the Joker's face appears in the comic it is glorious in its color and design and size and really makes a statement.
The Joker, of course, is up to no good. He has bought and fixed up a carnival. But first, he goes to Commisher Gordon's house where his librarian daughter Barbara is and he shoots Barbara and takes pictures of her naked and kidnaps Gordon and takes him to the carnival and puts him on a ride where he flashes the pictures of his daughter trying to drive him mad.
Batman follows the clues to find the Joker and the inevitable tete a tete happens between the two. The Joker is trying to prove that you can drive someone mad in one day. Interspersed between this story is a sepia-tinted story of a stand up comic and his pregnant wife trying to make it and how he takes a questionable job to try to make money to get them a better place to live. This comic doesn't hold back and I like that about it. It takes risks like shooting Barbara. But as Batman said at the beginning of the book the two will have their moment to either kill each other or not at the end and the author's choice for an ending is an interesting one. I do have to say that the use of colors is incredible with the theme of red following throughout the book which is the Joker's color. Also included is a short comic about a man who wants to test his theory on good versus evil out and is written and drawn by Brian Bollard. I have to give this book a five out of five stars.
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