S'il est une histoire de Batman qu'il faut absolument avoir lue, c'est incontestablement The Killing Joke, le chef-d'oeuvre d'Alan Moore et de Brian Bolland. Jamais la relation entre le Chevalier Noir et son ennemi juré le Joker n'a été abordée avec autant d'intensité que dans cette cultissime aventure. Le Joker se livre à une véritable guère psychologique pour déstabiliser ses adversaires afin de démontrer que n'importe qui peut sombrer dans la folie. On ne présente plus Alan Moore, le créateur de Watchmen et de V pour vendetta. On connaît peut-être moins Brian Bolland, qui est pourtant un grand artiste qui a notamment collaboré avec Grant Morrison sur Animal Man et Les Invisibles.
Quelques mois après sa première victoire contre l'empire du crime qui phagocyte. La cité de Gotham, le vigilant Batman enquête sur une série de meurtres perpétrés uniquement lors des fêtes. Travaillant en parallèle avec le jeune procureur Harvey Dent et le Lieutenant James Gordons, le Chevalier Noir engage une course contre ce calendrier morbide qui égrène chaque mois une victime supplémentaire. Une quête dont la conclusion pourrait bien sonner la chute du plus grand espoir de Gotham, et la naissance de l'un de ses pires monstres de foire...
Le Joker, connu pour sa folie, aussi meurtrière que machiavélique, se retrouve face à Batman une nouvelle fois, mais que se passerait-il si l'on inversait les rôles ? Jack Napier, alias le Joker guéri et libéré de ses pensées criminelles se présente aux élections pour devenir le nouveau maire de Gotham. De l'autre côté, le Chevalier Noir tombe dans la criminalité pour sa violence mise à jour par des réseaux sociaux. L'ancien Prince du Crime endosse le rôle du Chevalier Blanc pour sauver Gotham.
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