The Killing Joke Review

So a few weeks ago I read the graphic novel The Killing Joke by Alan Moore, the author behind small works such as V for Vendetta and Watchmen, which is basically the closest thing we have to a Joker origin story. I loved the graphic novel for two primary reasons. 1) the Joker is one of my favorite characters of all time to the point where I can name all the actors who played him: Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill (that's right, Luke Skywalker was the Joker!) and the most recent and best from the bunch Heath Ledger. But I digress. If the movie The Dark Knight took from anything its this and The Long Halloween (which is also awesome). The Killing Joke is praised as the best Joker story of all time and for very good reason. In the Adam West TV show and the early comics (from my understanding) wasn't a violent character but as you can probably tell he has changed over the years. This novel is very dark and the Joker spends the majority of the novel trying to make Commissioner Gordon go insane like he did. And it shows this really interesting motivation for the Joker beyond 'just cause' that I can't talk about without entering spoiler territory. 2) The other reason I really like this book is because of the dark tone. The first Batman movie I've ever seen is Batman Forever and it was very childish but I will always have a special place in my heart for Jim Carey as the Riddler. But the first Batman comic I've ever read had the first panel being a guy shoved into an iron maiden and that triggered the, "holy shoot Batman isn't for kids" and this comic does the same thing. My only problem with it is it is too short. Like every Joker story is too short but this is only 46 pages long. But besides that, its a dark  psychopathic story involving one of my favorite characters and I suggest you check it out