Can Batman and Joker's relationship end without murder?

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The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews.

This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure!

Timestamps

• 00:24 - Listener inspired programming, intro to The Killing Joke.  A very 1988 book.
• 05:28 - Brian Bolland's art, Batman's realization
• 08:13 - The Joker's Origin, his horrible plan
• 15:27 - The Joke, MDOC's Letter - Grant Morrison's interpretation of the end
• 21:10 - The Story behind Killing Joke - Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
• 25:25 - Interesting sounding supporting stories - Booster Gold and Wonder Woman

References

• Batman: The Killing Joke is published by DC Comics

  • Written by: Alan Moore
  • Art by: Brian Bolland

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