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  <title><![CDATA[Joker]]></title>
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  <default-description>An original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City--from the creative team behind the graphic novel LEX LUTHOR: MAN OF STEEL.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, and he's none too happy about what's happened to his Gotham City rackets while he's been &quot;away.&quot; What follows is a harrowing night of revenge, murder and manic crime as only The Joker can deliver it, as he brutally takes back his stolen assets from The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face, Killer Croc and others. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brian Azzarello brings to JOKER all the visceral intensity and criminal insight that has made his Vertigo graphic novel series 100 BULLETS one of the most critically-acclaimed and award-winning series in all of comics.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-day type="integer">28</original-publication-day>
  <original-publication-month type="integer">10</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2008</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Joker</original-title>
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    <body><![CDATA[ The whole time I was reading this book my cogitation was overcome by speculations of Olsen twin #2's role in Heath Ledgers early-in-life-cycle transition to another dimension. This unnecessary analysis was brought on by the uncanny resemblance of the artists take on the clown prince to the real lif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36519224">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't understand why so many panties are damp for this (or for the latest Dark Knight movie for that matter, but that's another argument). The art is good but not great. Artistically, the Joker here is obviously modeled after Heath Ledger's. The story is ok. The Joker gets out of Arkham Asylum and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41574332">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 14 17:38:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Welcome to the most overhyped Graphic novel of the year. Boring, pointless, and containing nothing interesting to say about The Joker either as an Icon or a Character. Boring, both over and under plotted, and with art that crosses the line from simply ugly to fucking stupid (Gotta Love 2 Fast 2 Furi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40105903">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise is fairly straightforward: Upon a rather questionable release from Arkham, the Joker wishes to get his 'sandbox' back, having lost the stranglehold he once had on the city to the other crime bosses while he was locked away. Although it's hardly Shakespearean, <em>Joker</em> certainly has the trad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44716101">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book about, the joker, i could get my hands on. And it really suked me in. From the first page to the last, my mind was strained with questions. Starting with the question presented at the begining- why was Joker being released from Arkhan Asylum? Many other questions arise though...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41127240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always thought that Alan Moore's 1988 masterpiece Batman: The Killing Joke was the definitive Joker story of all time. Not any more. Brian Azzarello's Joker is a frightening look at what true insanity is. Azzarello and Lee Berjemo (arist)model their Joker off of Heath Leger's Oscar worthy performa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38235589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>The Joker?! Released from Arkham?! Talk about Instanity!</strong><br/><br/>The premise of <em>Joker</em> is nearly unbelievable; however, given that premise, the story is believable beyond a shadow of doubt. Joker, in <em>Joker</em>, is in prime form, after being released from Arkham Asylum (for reasons never told, much lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74641950">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just what any <em>100 Bullets</em> fan would hope from Azzarello: a Joker comic that concentrates entirely on the organized-crime angle of his career. The narrator, a ballsy wiseguy neuro named Jonny Frost, seems like an homage to Ray Liotta's performance as Henry Hill. And the Joker himself is just nasty an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57786470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45541115">
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    <body><![CDATA[Joker has been declared &quot;cured&quot; and is released from Arkham Asylum.  No one wants to pick him up, except one down-on-his-luck hood who we then see the entire tale through his eyes.  And being one of the Joker's henchmen, has to rank as one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet.  But bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45541115">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I finished this book, I was left with one really big question: Who in their right mind would let the Joker out of Arkham Asylum? I mean seriously, you would think that with his reputation they parole board at Arkham would be, to say the least, hesitant about letting him out.<br/><br/>All that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39593124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a graphic novel; the writer is the scripter of the award-winning <em>100 Bullets</em> series.  I'd say this is as masterful a depiction of the Joker as Heath Ledger's, though it's not the same Joker.  I read somewhere that someone thought it was more like Jack Nicholson's Joker, and I can see that, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45931026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good story.  Azzarello creates an interesting plot that shows the structure of crime in Gotham City.  Unfortunately, I felt I've read this story before in several other Batman tales.  Some of the narrative involving Joker proves what we already know...he's crazy and you don't want to be a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53136250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given the cultural elevation of The Joker as arch-nemesis, the bar is set very high to provide a new take on the character. This isn't it.<br/><br/>We get a brave stab at self-destructive, schizo unpredictibility and a splash of cruelty. The rest is mostly mundane. Killer Croc is straight muscle, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45844532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How incredibly disturbing and what a thick storyline.  This short story about the Joker being released from Arkham Asylum takes a very unique look at his gang. All of his characters are so well developed and their conversations are loaded with symbolism. The book itself follows a smaller character i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38850881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very dark and adult story.  Brian Azzarello really seems to have captured the Jokers twisted personality within this story and the mind games he plays on all around him.  The Art work in this story is absolutely amazing, dark and full of detail.  The violence that jumps off the page is un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46287352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is great for someone (like me) who really enjoys seeing personalized artistic takes on older characters and premises. Bermejo and Azzarello's Joker is pure poker psychosis mixed with bloody breath and dirty fingernails tore-up with glass. Excellent madness. I know that the work on this has gone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37069322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intensely dark, street level first person narrative, told from the perspective of a wanna-be underworld somebody and mercifully free of super-heroics, 'Joker' was obviously inspired by (and possibly meant as a posthumous mash-note to) the portrayal of said icon by the late Heath Ledger. A more perfe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58784344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not much to say about this, but it was pretty sweet. A great look at the Joker from a perspective other than Batman's. The villains are designed more realistic, especially Killer Croc, but the art is too astounding for me to care. I would've liked to see more done with Harley. She was just kind of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58417697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joker started out strong, but slowly fell apart as the story progressed.  Too many characters were introduced and then not used for anything.  Penguin was solid, though Joker calls him Abner (I'm pretty sure his name is Oswald Cobblepot), and the Riddler was really interesting, but he was only on tw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55412457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not the Joker that I know. It was interesting, and I liked the colors... there was a lot of red. Except for the two female characters, most of the characters looked... lumpy? <br/>The Joker in this book is an absolutely cruel psychopath, which I guess he's supposed to be, however I think there's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76225587">more...</a>]]></body>
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