![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Joker,” by Azzarello and Lee Bermejo (DC Comics, $19.99, 128 pages) If Heath Ledger’s maniacal Joker made your skin crawl, get ready to really squirm over Azzarello’s lean and mean postscript to “The Dark Knight.” Mainstream comics don’t get much better, from “Joker’s” film noir plot to its moody and striking visuals.ħ. Here, then, is my countdown for the 10 best graphic novels I read in 2008:ġ0. since it was previously published it would otherwise have been near the top of my list this year). “The Dark Knight” deservedly won over audiences and critics alike and sparked a surge in the sales of Batman comics, with older and new titles leaping to the top of best-seller charts.Īlthough Frank Miller’s (“300”) cheeky “Batman and Robin” series turned out to be DOA, Brian Azzarello’s fast paced “Joker” made a perfect companion piece to the movie.īut the year in comics gave us more than troubled guys in Lycra and face paint, including an impressive reprint of Art Spiegelman’s disturbing and revolutionary “Breakdowns.” (I left that off my 2008 list. ![]() A millionaire in a bat suit and a clown-faced nut job joined forces to rule not just movies, but comics in 2008. ![]()
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