{"id":130504,"date":"2016-04-28T04:10:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/the-trailer-is-out-for-batman-the-killing-joke.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:05:08","slug":"the-trailer-is-out-for-batman-the-killing-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/the-trailer-is-out-for-batman-the-killing-joke.html","title":{"rendered":"The trailer is out for &quot;Batman: The Killing Joke&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Moore and Brian Bolland&#39;s <i>The Killing Joke<\/i> is one of the most iconic graphic novels in the DC catalog, a psychodrama between Batman and the Joker that drags Barbara and Jim Gordon in as tortured victims. Controversial (as so much of Moore&#39;s work is, and not without some justification in this case), it&#39;s still a remarkable work in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>This new animated feature is, based on the trailer &#8230; interesting. On the one hand, with Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill back to voice Batman and the Joker, there&#39;s a lot of faboo going on along the audio front. On the other hand, I <i>hope<\/i> this is an early version of the animation, because the frame rate seems awfully choppy.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#39;s rated R, which &#8212; well, we&#39;ll see. I&#39;ve seen some pretty violent animated DC features in the past that didn&#39;t carry that rating, and while the graphic novel is by no means kiddie fare &#8212; well, like I said, we&#39;ll see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnTSqgJPVl8' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/YeFTwdHoMzE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Moore and Brian Bolland&#39;s The Killing Joke is one of the most iconic graphic novels in the DC catalog, a psychodrama between Batman and the Joker that drags Barbara and Jim Gordon in as tortured victims. Controversial (as so much of Moore&#39;s work is, and not without some justification in this case), it&#39;s still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/the-trailer-is-out-for-batman-the-killing-joke.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The trailer is out for &quot;Batman: The Killing Joke&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,45,11,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons","category-media-comics","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129629,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/another-justice-league-cartoon-is-in-the-works.html","url_meta":{"origin":130504,"position":0},"title":"Another Justice League cartoon is in the works","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Feb-16 4:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But it looks like it's going to be kid-oriented -- simpler designs, and quarter-hour mini-episodes. 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