Of Lovers and Madmen
When I read The Killing Joke last year (I am quite new to the comic book genre, yes), I appreciated how writers, like Alan Moore, can substantiate a character who, up until then, I didn't give a second thought about. That was partly because I didn't take reading comics seriously, and partly because I didn't read comics. Fast forward to a year later and I was well into reading some of the more well-known collected story arcs released by DC within the last decade. There was no system to my reading, however: I just picked up stand-alone works I found lying around the house, or I just downloaded something people would recommend. To lend a sort of system to my reading, I did what any novice, who just happened to be undergoing some sort of mid-life crisis, would do: search the internet for the Top Ten Batman and Joker anything. The anachronism of my reading was not lost to me, and half of the time I spent searching through stuff I already downloaded in order to rem