A review by henchwench
DC Comics Novels - Batman: The Killing Joke by Gary Phillips, Christa Faust

2.0

Strangely enough given this is a novel adaptation of the killing joke graphic novel very little of the story is actually about the events that take place in it. The majority of the story follows drug gangs, with the killing joke story squeezed in quickly towards the end

Even the jokers backstory is relegated to a handful of pages in the middle

This novelisation doesn’t really capture the darkness or emotional struggle/relationship between batman and the joker the graphic novel conveys so wonderfully yet so simply