Alan Moore’s opinion one the Killing Joke

[TheFalcon72]

I still have my original copy of the Killing Joke and the story coupled with Dave Gibbons work makes it a favourite. I do agree with Alan about the story's darkness. I was not a father when I purchased the book but now I am and with a daughter the shooting of Barbara seems very violent now.

I agree with Vordan's comments regarding Oracle, she was a great female character and good female characters have been missing from Batman for sometime especially in Tom King's excessively long and poor run on Batman.

[kjn]

If they hate what they've written, they should give back the paycheck because obviously they did sucky work.

Then you obviously don't know much about creators or the post-creative process. In one of the cases, it concerns an author with multiple Hugo wins and nominations with a long career. It's just how their feelings towards their prior work change over time.

[dancj]

This anything like Arkham Asylum: Serious House on Serious Earth? Cause I got that last summer and I swear outside of the innovative art I can't for the life of me understand how the hell this is a classic - I'm still trying to understand what the heck I read during parts of it. Confusing as heck.

No. Living Hell is much more straightforward - though still quite quirky. It's a great story.

Next time I get enough cash to justify expanding my collection again I plan on getting this one along with White Knight and the Batman Dracula trilogy. How good is it?

Batman vs Predator? I love it. A Batman/Predator crossover has no right to be any good, but Gibbons wrote it really well - and it has a great Alfred moment.

The Dracula Trilogy I thought was terrible, but many people consider it a classic so YMMV.

[dancj]

So my loling is rude but he's calling my favorite stories stupid isn't ?

Yeah.

One is laughing at a person and the other is criticising a story.

[oasis1313]

Then you obviously don't know much about creators or the post-creative process. In one of the cases, it concerns an author with multiple Hugo wins and nominations with a long career. It's just how their feelings towards their prior work change over time.

I was being sarcastic because I hated "Killing Joke." Sorry about the confusion. Loved Moore's Swamp Thing run.