Brutal, frightening - if you want Joker horror, here it is.
Moreover, Azzarello and Bermejo’s Joker is shockingly “real” - not a mythical cackling devil, but a mortal man whose erraticness might be partially explained by all the drugs he’s shown doing here.
To my eye, this Joker is not so much insane as he is just sadistic and impulsive, and with a strict (if self-serving) moral system - valuing loyalty, abohorring weakness, punishing without mercy. Given the long runway that both comics and movies have before arriving in the world, it’s hard to say if either Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s Joker or Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, released the same year, had any influence on one another, or if each was just reflecting the same cultural zeitgeist.Įither way, there’s considerable reflection of the late Heath Ledger’s performance in Azzarello and Bermejo’s baggy-pantsed, scar-faced, mob boss Joker.
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