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Joker Graphic Novel Preview - Want to see the art before you buy the book? Take a look at a full scene featuring Killer Croc! On with the interview. Just how much did they like it? Check it out now. Joker Graphic Novel Reviews - Writer Dan Phillips and Comics EIC Rich tackle the big release. Bermejo also sent over some "behind the scenes" art, giving a glimpse at his pencils and early drafts of some scenes, including some that were changed for the final release! Still want some more Joker content? Check out our other articles: Interview With Writer Brian Azzarello - The 100 Bullets author sits down with Dan Phillips to talk about developing this project. In sum: graphically enticing, but confusing and, finally, repellent.Our reasoning for talking to the artist after the release of the book is simple - we wanted to talk about his approach to scenes and characters, and we wanted readers to have a chance to see the book before we started breaking down some of the artistic decisions behind it. Though Risso's breakdowns can be perplexing, in general the images are sharp and startling, compensating to a degree for Azzarello's unremitting bleakness, while partaking of the same grim attitude. As in 100 Bullets, Risso's art is an eye-stopping consolation, blending noir-ish chiaroscuro and crisp, clear-line elegance (with nods to Miller and Tim Sale). Azzarello ignores the character's larger-than-life, Shadow-like grandeur, offering instead a crudely sadistic vigilante worse yet, he forgets to humanize the very people for whom Batman supposedly undertakes his mission. Predictably, he obsessively replays the scene of his parents' murder-Batman's primal scene-in familiar, Frank Miller-esque fashion (the usual traumatic montage). Yet despite his encounters with thugs, cops and victims, he remains essentially alone. Azzarello's Batman is a frankly repulsive figure, terrorizing and torturing his victims, moving among crooks like an old, incestuous acquaintance. The bewildering plot, concerning a murder investigation and a fistful of villains old and new, involves little method and much mayhem, all set to our hero's voiceover musings-a hard-boiled narration that strains after effect. Though initially eye-pleasing, it's not much fun to read. , reprinting a recent run of the Batman monthly, turns the Dark Knight over to scripter Azzarello and artist Risso, the team behind the nail-tough crime series 100 Bullets.
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