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Now Batman Tells His Own Killing Joke To The Joker (Spoilers)

It's one of the most famous Batman scenes in comics. The Joker telling a joke to Batman in The Killing Joke. Well, lets have another.

It's one of the most famous Batman scenes in comics. The Joker telling a joke to Batman, as portrayed by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, in The Killing Joke. That indicates that they are both as insane as each other, but pretending or acting like they aren't.

"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight…stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daren't make the leap. Y'see…y'see, he's afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea…He says 'Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!' B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says… he says 'What do you think I am? Crazy? You'd turn it off when I was half way across!'"

And in the moment, Batman laughs. They share the joke. The Joker loses, but in that moment, he may have proven his point and won. It's a scene that gets repeatedly reinterpreted. And in tomorrow's Batman: The Brave And The Bold #9, we have the long-delayed finale to The Winning Card by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. And time for another joke, this time being told by Batman to the Joker.

It's an old joke. Batman himself told it in the recent Batman #98 by John Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez that came out shortly after Tom King's own Batman run had ended.

Which itself had been memed to death over the last few years.

Still, it seems that Batman really, really liked this joke. To a lunatic level.

The Joker? Less of a fan. Probably more of a Ricky Gervais guy. Man, everyone's a critic.

As E.B. White said "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." Pure scientific minds all here at Bleeding Cool!

BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #9 CVR A SIMONE DI MEO
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Simone Di Meo
Written by Tom King, Gabriel Hardman, Kyle Starks, and Bruno Redondo Art by Mitch Gerads, Gabriel Hardman, Fernando Pasarin, and Bruno Redondo Batman finally confronts The Joker in the brutal conclusion to The Winning Card by Tom King and Mitch Gerads! Aquaman faces down the Dominator threat at the bottom of the ocean in Gabriel Hardman's epic final chapter! Hell comes to the Quad Cities in the conclusion of Kyle Starks and Fernando Pasarin's Wild Dog: Here Comes Trouble! Eisner Award winner Bruno Redondo writes and illustrates a poignant tale of the Dark Knight! Retail: $7.99 In-Store Date: 01/23/2024

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