Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's Batman: The Killing Joke soared to the top of Nielsen BookScan's (via ICv2) Top 20 Adult Fiction Graphic Novel chart, surpassing One Punch Man, Civil War, The Walking Dead, Tokyo Ghoul, and other popular graphic novels.
The controversial graphic novel has been among the Top 20 since August 2014, and has continued to go up the charts thanks to the R-rated animated adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke coming next month and David Ayer's Suicide Squad film, featuring The Joker (Jared Leto), coming in August. .
I've been hearing a lot about Tokyo Ghoul, and was even fascinated by some Tokyo Ghoul cosplay at Animazement, and seeing it in the charts makes me wonder what makes that series so good, so I'll probably check out the anime soon.
Synopsis:
What does it take for a person to snap? How much despair for a mind to fracture? These are the twisted questions that The Joker has set out to answer, to show Gotham that even an ordinary man like Commissioner Gordon is only one bad day away from sheer insanity. Based on the acclaimed DC Comics graphic novel, witness a journey into the dark psyche of the Clown Prince of Crime. Follow his humble beginnings as a struggling comic to his fateful encounter with the Dark Knight that changed everything. Fueled by the return of Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as The Joker, witness the birth of a super villain, the fortitude of a hero and the punch line that will leave you speechless.
Batman: The Killing Joke will officially be available on Digital HD on July 26, 2016, adn Blu-Ray and DVD on August 2, 2016.
Read: Why It Took So Long to Make ‘Batman: The Killing Joke'
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