10 Powerful DC Comics Endings That Gave You Chills

[@dougjwhalen]

"You're one hell of a messenger" - Bruce Wayne... flashpoint had one of the best moments in dc's history and should totally be on this list.

[@preposteroustoast]

I loved that

[@Bruce_Wayne1031]

Hyy

[@Sereomontis]

"He's not dead. He's up there fixing the sun."

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

"The Rebirth of a Man in the Heart of a Dying Sun". that's what the final of that comic makes me think

[@rbellamy804]

Love All Star Superman

[@joshgalloway3199]

All-Star Superman.....just gets me right in the feels every time.

[@TheMobileFoodCritic]

Its true he is just fixing the sun

[@davidsiqueira2996]

Batman didn’t kill the joker. Since the comic was so well accepted, it was adapted into the Main continuity where the joker doesn’t die...

[@BennyGecko]

David Siqueira Agreed, it’s mentioned in Batman #49

[@vdkotecha]

It wasn't adapted, it was always in continuity

[@trans8010]

This comic was always in continuity. It was designed as a vehicle to retire Babs as Batgirl by DC and Alan needed a character to motivate Batman into action so Len Wein gave him Babs. DC didn't think the bronze age optimistic Congresswoman who moonlighted as a crimefighter made sense in this new Post Crisis, grunge and crime ridden Gotham City or its tortured avenger. DC certainly marketed this story as belonging in continuity, look at the trade ads. It was advertised as the Origin of the Joker in solicitations and the "definitive" Joker story in advertisements within the comics shipped during late 87-early 88. As for killing the Joker, that's not true either. Alan has flat out said its not true. The script pages that were publicly released also have no mention of Batman breaking the neck of Joker, or strangling him. The Dark Knight's hand placed on his shoulder. The lack of characters in the final panels is meant to illustrate passage of time. The police show up, take Joker into custody, and drive off, the remaining sounds is that of the falling rain. The death of Joker would negate the point of the story. The killing Joke is nothing more than a metaphor for Batman and Joker's twisted relationship, that they are destined to do the dance they do for eternity. Its really a commentary on comics and their refusal to execute their cash cows. You cannot kill the Joker because he's a fan beloved character, same with Batman and this is reflected within the story.

[@davidsiqueira2996]

Trans8010 I agree with you in the long run, but when the comic first came out dc didn’t state that it was in continuity, only after a while when the comic became well know dc was like “ oh yeah, it was always in continuity “ but then again I could be wrong and dc always wanted for it to be in continuity.. 🤷‍♂️

[@trans8010]

@@davidsiqueira2996 You are wrong. Plain and simple. The month this comic was released there was also a one shot that illustrated the retirement of Babs as Batgirl. Look for Batgirl Special 1988. This issue was published because Alan Moore was going to cripple Batgirl, and DC wanted to retire the character. When Jason Todd is killed you see Babs in a wheelchair and references to that story throughout the year of 1988. This book was canon at inception.

[@Greg-Attack]

What about the ending of Flashpoint, where Bruce gets to read the letter his father (from the flashpoint timeline) wrote? I think it's one of the most beautiful yet sad endings in DC Comics. Or the ending of the Batman/Flash Crossover (SPOILER WARNING) with Bruce standing at a window while thinking about the last words of his father.

[@emeraldcoastarcher]

Agreed! Saint Barry! Three miracles all at once. He made Batman cry, smile, and say thank you.

[@nabeelhasanzaidi1558]

So true. Among so many chiling climaxes in flashpoint. This was the most amazing one.

[@mercer3401]

Didn't he cry a little? owo

[@catandrobbyflores]

I only saw the movie but I was tearing up at that.

[@theunknown7441]

Bro feels

[@danielpederson5337]

The last panel of Superman #75. ".......that a Superman died." I know that most people 25 years later deride this book but I remember reading it in the day it came out and the emotions it caused not just me but the world. There were actual news reports on this happening, a News Week magazine issue about it and everything. It was iconic.....the evening this book came out it's value skyrocketed and you couldn't touch it for less than several hundred dollars. I remember my father having me buy several copies that morning because even he knew it was an important event.

[@nolastname]

Batman isn't strangling the Joker in the end of the Killing Joke. It's a misconception debunked by Moore himself.

[@totallynotzokix11_mc21]

Well, he didn't intend it like that but it can be interpreted that way since it's open-ended.

[@SuperSanity1]

@@totallynotzokix11_mc21 Except it's not. The Killing Joke is not an Elseworlds oneshot. It was very clearly in continuity.

[@raulcasarez2150]

Actually Moore said that Batman did kill joker but it’s because it was a one-shot comic and then it was made canon by dc and they changed it to where bat didn’t kill joker.

[@frozenkilt]

Almost all of Kingdom Come gave me chills.

[@marcosolivarria9770]

Let's go home and dream about the future...

[@LibertyBridgeProductions]

So glad “I believe in Harvey dent” is here. That is the best plot twist I’ve ever read.

[@pearcegolding3544]

I don't get it

[@LibertyBridgeProductions]

Pearce Golding it’s a long Halloween twist u gotta read. I won’t spoil it.

[@pearcegolding3544]

@@LibertyBridgeProductions ill be sure to check it out if it's that good thanks bro

[@LibertyBridgeProductions]

Pearce Golding it’s very good I recommend it

[@micah4029]

@@pearcegolding3544 Not that my opinion matters, but it's in my list of the top 5 Batman stories. It is one of the better showings of Batman's detective side without the heavy reliance on gadgets. It also rounds up a good amount of the better-known characters in his rogues gallery. Jeph Loeb (writer) and Tim Sale (artist) are an amazing combination.

[@punkxblaze]

Just as a BTW, that's a blue lantern ring Steph is rocking. Hence why she's glowing blue.

[@chilliciouspatrioticmeatlover]

DC should make an action figure of Stephanie Brown wearing the blue lantern ring

[@victikirby15]

Number 15: All Star Superman. The last thing you’d want in your Superman comic is an emotional ending. But as it turns out, that might be what you get.

[@JB-fq1hj]

victikirby15 All Star Superman made me like Superman. Completely sold me on him as a character and how others view him and are inspired by him. One of my favourite books ever.

[@dcmarvelcomicfans9458]

@The Unbeatable no

[@somekidfrm07]

burger king foot lettuce

[@yowhatsmyname]

The Killing Joke. Joker stops laughing. Ha Ha Ha...

[@ChristopherSanchez-sp6ek]

best line in that comic for me is when Joker is all like- Something like that happened to me you know. Not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes I remember it one, sometimes I remember is another. If I'm going to have a past I prefer it to be multiple choice." That gave me the chills.

[@paulheap1982]

@Nospam Spamisham only you're talking complete bollocks, Batman never fucked Batgirl in the book and only takes the Joker in because Commissioner Gordon tells him to bring him in by the book. And the book was not canon.

[@greyambrosia]

Well its canon now

[@kosaba11]

Nospam Spamisham, You haven't read A Killing Joke, have you? Because Batman doesn't sleep with Batgirl at all in that book. Also, Joker doesn't "gang rape" Batgirl after paralyzing her, he stripped her naked and took pictures of her to drive Gordon mad. He also doesn't rape Gordon, and nowhere in the book is it ever implied that he did. Hell, not even in the animated movie version of the book, which is really just two stories in one movie, since the first half of that film isn't even the Killing Joke, but instead its own story that has nothing to do with the source material, implied that Gordon was raped by Joker. And yes, you can say that the film version implied Joker raped Barbara, it was already denied by one of the producers of the film, Bruce Timm, that the scene people are using to say Joker raped Barbara, the scene with Batman interrogating some prostitutes, was meant to imply anything like that. And even if the person who wrote the film, which was not the author of the actual book but instead some guy named Brian Azzarello (Who has a weird fascination with making Joker a rapist). That fact alone means you can't say what is implied in the film is what happens in the comic.

[@johnnieriot13]

kosaba11 that guy clearly never read Killing Joke but it is implied that Joker rapes (not gang rapes) Barbra in the books. At least that’s the impression I got from it. I could be wrong the last time I read it was at least 15 years ago.

[@nolastname]

I miss Darwyn Cooke. Great artist and even greater writer.

[@cha5]

If there was any comic that changed my life it would have to be Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen, I never saw comics in the same way with what they could accomplish as a medium after Watchmen and from it’s beginning to it’s end even with it’s 1980’s setting it just doesn’t date for me in it’s impact and especially that ending with everything hanging on what Seymour will do next as the picture perfect cliffhanger ending to an epic story.

[@OkamiSatsujin]

Kingdom Come had the most powerful impact to me.

[@strikermodel]

This is a very good list. It's filled with moments I actually didn't know about. Well done!

[@142doddy]

Kinda suprised Damian doesn't have a Red Lantern ring in every continuity.

[@mrwalrus9310]

Yeh suits it little to well at times

[@DHworldwide185]

There is people angrier and besides he a little shit so he doesn't deserve one.

[@ChristopherSanchez-sp6ek]

@@DHworldwide185 he is a little shit. I prefer him dead anyway and when it did finally happen they brought him back. God I miss the Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake days.

[@DHworldwide185]

Christopher Sanchez He has some attributes but you’re right 100%

[@AbominableFoMan]

These were all great choices, I wish you would have at least made an honorable mention to Identity Crisis. Brad Meltzer isn't someone you think about when it comes to comic books. He wrote an incredible story with one of the biggest twist endings that has life altering consequences for all involved.

[@Sam-oe4dt]

Foster Azmodan what happened

[@coreylineberry8557]

@@Sam-oe4dt Batman leaves the Justice League after finding out that Zatanna mind-wiped him.

[@FriedChckn13]

Didn't get chills until the New Frontier, but damn if that isn't one of the best pieces of literature ever written.

[@micah4029]

The Long Halloween is one of the best Batman stories to-date.

[@gondorknight83]

When Clark says, "You're stronger than you think you are. Trust me". I break down crying every time.

[@rynoX88]

The Archers Quest is a good comic to pick up if you ever get a chance.

[@6DireWolf9]

Why would Batman suddenly snap and decide to strangle The Joker? Especially after Commissioner Gordon told him to bring him in by the book to show that their way, the law, still works? Short answer, he wouldn't.

[@bubbybb9704]

I don't know because I didn't read the killing joke

[@ChristopherSanchez-sp6ek]

@@bubbybb9704 can't you also take it either way since all we saw was Batman grab Joker, for all we know he could've kneed Joker in the gut and slammed him to the ground, knocking him out. I think the reader can take it either way. He also could've grabbed him by the shoulders and slowly have his fingers crawl to his neck and snap it.

[@wallywest4727]

Because at that point he's had enough, the joke Joker told and what that ultimately meant tells you why Batman would kill him.

[@yowhatsmyname]

It's left for interpretation. In my opinion, he did but my explanation would be too long to describe due to foreshadowing. The joke at the end is meant to be left as mysterious when the light beams are turned off before we see if he crosses the line.

[@alcorgarcia619]

The final joke about the two insane people the Joker tells him at the end basically tells Batman why he must kill Joker once and for all. Two completely insane people can not coexist with each other.

[@derrickhaggard]

And Terra's death and funeral is what sets off the events of the storyline Teen Titans: Changeling vs. Terminator a storyline which sees Beast Boy act like a brutal anti-hero as goes on brutal quest of revenge against Deathstroke seriously by the time Nightwing and the others catch up to Garfield him and Slade have went through a fight so brutal that it was reduced to basically a bare-knuckle fight between a bruised and bloodied Garfield and a equally bruised and bloodied Slade.

[@JC111414]

What issue is this?

[@derrickhaggard]

@@JC111414 Teen Titans: Changling vs. Terminator is the direct sequel to Teen Titans: The Judas Contract. And is considered by many fans to be the quintessential Beast Boy storyline.

[@JC111414]

@@derrickhaggard I have to read it. But do you know what issue is it? Like the number?

[@chikish]

Two Darwyn Cooke books on the list. I am pleased 😁

[@EDifyer881]

He's right these stories did give me chills (luckily I have a comfortable blanket next to me lol)

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

Time Runs Out had a powerful ending. Between that and Secret Wars are probably Marvel's best comic book storylines this decade.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

the ending of Hickman's saga is better if you have read his FF books

[@rob9241]

Sorry but I disagree with the list, Kingdom Come is without a doubt the comic book story whose art and story line give you chills. I love that story with art so beautiful that one has to read it once and more than likely will feel chills and more emotions.

[@frpsty189]

So excited to see the long halloween as one of the best dc comicbook becoming movie adaptation in 2021

[@Remholder]

color me surprised that Judas Contract made a list once again, over the OG titans hunt storyline that had 4 characters killed off...

[@sixdollarman1362]

@Remo Stopka I'm not familiar with that storyline. You've picked my interest and I may have to check it out. I'm assuming that this predates the New Teen Titans(Wolfman & Perez) since you reference it as OG Titans.

[@Remholder]

@@sixdollarman1362 no, the OG TITANS HUNT storyline. There was the N52 version and the Wolfman version; Wolfmans is the original. The characters killed off (at the time) were Jericho, Danny Chase, Arella, and Raven. Jericho turned heel out of bloody nowhere and it destroyed the titans team.

[@sixdollarman1362]

@@Remholder Thanks Man! Still sounds cool. I'll see if I can get a trade paperback of it.

[@Remholder]

@@sixdollarman1362 I dont think theres a TPB of that storyline, but it's around issues 80-95

[@mas2487]

You put a number 3 at the number 2 spot

[@jaebee81]

New Frontier was amazing!!! Thanks for reminding.

[@zooropa04]

Not the end of Heart of Hush exactly, but Selina's "I'm awake" after Bruce's confession of love to what he thought was an unconscious recipient always gets me.

[@trans8010]

Most of these endings didn't really send chills as much as give me the "feels". Feeling of joy, sadness, melancholy, or satisfaction. These are emotionally charged stories, as for Knightfall. Batman 497's cover gave me the chills more than the story itself. Kelley Jones' now iconic cover is just brutal to look at. Bane not only breaks Wayne's back but he folds him almost in half like a rag doll. The blank expressionless mask staring directly at you as he's doing it. It is so unnerving. I was six the first time I saw that cover, and it stayed with me 26 years later.

[@joehooley7124]

On a wicked mushroom high, with a few solo minutes to roll J's, and so happy this is here right nowwwwwwww

[@m.032]

This video has 2 number 3's Killing Joke and All-star Superman

[@joshgalloway3199]

All-Star Superman is straight up magic in comic book form. A masterpiece.

[@ronniehesson5074]

Thank you so much for that trip down memory lane. It reminded me why I love the medium so much to begin with. It also gave me an epiphany. Comic books reflect the culture and The times they are made in. Today's if you don't agree with me you're wrong mentality has bled over into today's comic books.I just hope they can survive until something better comes along.

[@IamTheBuckethead]

Awesome stuff.

[@controversialopinions3659]

The DCEU should have introduced all the characters them wanted in their justice league and used A New Frontier as the launching point for the justice league oppose to what ever they did in Justice League (2017).

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I was fine that "The Killing Joke" is a one-shot story or an Elseworld to end a rivalry between two iconic comicbook characters...until DC decided to make it canon.

[@dakodahuber]

DC Video Has marvel background...

[@AllanFox15]

And this is why i shake my head when everyone complains about the tone of the DCEU movies even superman occasionally takes a dark turn and even their own writer's write their best stories outside of the main continuaty so why couldn't the DCEU be an alternate world story After all the MCU is based more on the ultimates line of comics then tne main cannon

[@wrestlinganime4life288]

It's not about dark. When you start a cinematic universe you must have a clear vision of what the lore of this character is all about. The MCU took some inspiration from the ultimate comics but Feigie understood the Marvel lore very well. He had one specific vision that fits the characters. Marvel are human becoming icons well the MCU took nobody and made them A lister. The tune of each character varies as it should be. It does not make sense for Thor to be more grounded like Captain America. The DCEU didn't have any of this. Zack snyder vision was based on his own opinion on the genre. And that's why it failed.

[@sixdollarman1362]

I have never read or heard anywhere(Alan Moore) that the Joker was killed at the end of the Killing Joke. I would say it's open to interpretation and your video saying it as a matter of fact is irresponsible and misleading.

[@JudeMarchisio]

He's said it more than once, just Google it.

[@sixdollarman1362]

@@JudeMarchisio I have Googled it and got nothing more than it's open to the readers interpretation. Feel free to send a link here in Alan Moore's words that say Batman kills the Joker at the end of the Killing Joke. And good luck with that. When that happens, I will happily admit I am wrong.

[@sixdollarman1362]

@@JudeMarchisioI'm not surprised that you haven't responded. Such a link doesn't exist, does it? I would recommend not basing an opinion on a poorly researched video. While I find some of these videos on this channel entertaining, it's not the first time the facts just aren't there to support statements. This is just the first time I've said anything and it makes me wonder about trusting information presented here on subjects that I'm not as familiar with.

[@gw4792]

Six DollarMan honestly I have heard it around before online however I am also not a expert so feel free to make your own opinion

[@sixdollarman1362]

@@gw4792We've all heard rumors online. That does not make it the authors intent, which is the proof I am asking for, based on what this video says.

[@domc9801]

When you going into the 2nd choice of “all star Superman” it showed instead it was the 3rd which confused me for a second, but beyond that great video.

[@salawinborn7246]

Superb #1. New Frontier is great from beginning to end. If you don't feel uplifted by the ending Kennedy speech paired with DC's heroes then something is wrong with you.

[@cheritripp9470]

Damn! I remembered when Ollie purposed to Dinah in that DC animated short. I'm sorry to find out he didn't go through with it.

[@eliandervalderen5849]

We should do 10 great quotes from comments you mentioned or rather you showed one of my favorites with the All-Star Superman when you told Lex Luthor you could save the world years ago if it matter to you

[@humanman7368]

6:42 looks like that character from Catscratch

[@MrRonald327]

Quite the emotional impact.

[@syanide27]

Red son better be on here

[@legendary3952]

Superman red son that was dope and so is flashpoint

[@timdubitably7542]

The Long Halloween isn't all about the gang war between the Maronis and Falcones... I mean they're involved, but it's more about Batman, Commisioner Gordon and Harvey Dent dismantling the Falcone operation while Holiday kills mobsters. Did you read the comic?

[@mrcalista722]

I'm surprised that Kingdom Come didn't make this list. The conclusion of the final battle in that series was both stunning and somewhat inevitable.// Also, this is the 1st time I've seen anyone suggest that Batman murdered the Joker in the final panels of The Killing Joke. I think that's a liberal interpretation of Alan Moore's conclusion.

[@PharaohDom]

Le Sigh. The ending of Killing Joke is iconic. Not for the reasons posited here. Batman DOES NOT kill Joker in the end. People took Grant Morrison's interpretation of that scene and ran with it as canon. This is a poor decision on their part for two reasons. Most obviously being that Grant Morrison didn't write Killing Joke, Alan Moore did. His interpretation is therefore merely that, not an authorial edict. The second issue is that you can read the Killing Joke script and clearly see that's not what happened. Alan Moore's scripts are notoriously dense, detailed and very thorough. It in no way, shape, or form hints at Batman killing The Joker. It very purposefully leaves the figures in shadow and what happens ambiguous. Be that as it may thematically Morrison's interpretation doesn't jive with the themes of the story. The crux of the story is that Joker wants to prove one bad day can break anybody, even the best of men. In the end, after all he does to him he tells Batman to prove their way works. To bring him in by the book. And Bruce not only agrees, but agrees emphatically. For Morrison's interpretation to have any validity you have to literally ignore major plot points, dialog, and clear character motivations.

[@gordonjamescowiest]

He did kill The Joker, when it was first released it was a one shot issue, it didn't become cannon until later after it became so popular.

[@jaztripney2656]

Has any one thought that joker is the one who kills the bat with laughing gas rather than batman killing joker

[@Bughunt89]

jason tripney no because Batman lives on in comics afterwards

[@adumbynamedconor5173]

Superman’s neck in the thumbnail gives me chills.

[@stungeek]

5:38 lol he got slapped like he slapped robin

[@maxbarker8625]

You missed the scene from all star superman with regean that moment is powerful

[@peterraber5198]

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER??

[@jcrprod.co.6973]

Okay. I need to reread The Long Halloween. And how is "the one man who beat you!" now counted?

[@mathebe2736]

The red son is the best for me

[@TheStandardBearer]

Interesting list.

[@lausonin6295]

"Even if it weren't all her fault" so... if she turned 18 then suddenly everything is to blame on her?

[@matthewjones2095]

Yes that how the law works

[@rzeitouneh]

For me, it’s gotta be when Sodam Yat flies into Daxam’s sun and uses his Ion power to turn it yellow so that the Daxamites can fight off the Sinestro Corps, sacrificing himself in the process.

[@jab-io2po]

I didn’t get number 10... Why does it give ppl chills??¿¿

[@ChristopherSanchez-sp6ek]

Don't know. Never read batgirl.

[@wallywest4727]

Because of what happened to Stepth.

[@JoJo-io7sx]

My only question is why is superman still wearing his Speedo? Lol

[@mattheston9132]

He got a big sweaty hog that just won't quit

[@jasonreitz4597]

*_when you literally realize that The Killing Joke actually did, according to the script of the film, as well as a clue on the first and last panel in the comic, Batman actually didn't kill the joker at all, literally nothing had changed._*

[@bubbybb9704]

Heroes can't get married? What about the flash and iris west Allen on flash tv series they got married and also in the comics

[@blackphoenix77]

This was a recent edict from Dan Didio.

[@koyinproductions9053]

Thankfully Superman gave the biggest middle finger to that rule.

[@theskyisteal8346]

Flash's 'Blitz' should be on here. Both the conclusion to the external conflict and the actual ending got me good. After Zoom killed Wally's unborn children, Wally chases him down and shove Zoom into a time loop of the worst moment of his life. Wally's thoughts say it all: "I've won I've won I..." Wally remembers the miscarriage "I've won nothing." Later, when Wally is visiting the Flash statue, he wants to abondon the mantle because of his percieved failings. Before he can truly give up though, Barry shows up from the future to comfort him. The Spectre then shows up and offers to grant Wally's deepest wish: to have a secret identity again. Wally agrees and the identity of the Flash, Barry and Wally, is erased from everyone's memories. Including Linda's but, most importantly, including Wally's.

[@MuggMen]

I don't know about you guys but I love the people who try to save Batman didn't kill in the killing joke because joker appear in comics after that, the killing joke was originally an elseworld story. So I believe the intention was to have the joker be killed by Batman because Batman lost his shit after all the crap that happened.

[@crisla69]

Dude all star superman is the only comics thats ever made me tear up like that shit was so good

[@adam1984pl]

Death and return os Superman,Dark Knight returns.

[@TheMightyFlea-0]

Superman: Birthright. Batman: Hush. Kingdom Come. Identity Crisis . . .

[@michaelbrent1536]

Batman the long Halloween and Batman Knightfall should be animated movies.DT should also make a Batman and the outsiders animated movie.

[@ChristopherSanchez-sp6ek]

Well I mean some aspects of the Nolan films are taken from those two comics.

[@knightzix_01]

Heroes Only see A dead villain as another soul they could not save Thats why terra was respected as they did

[@alejandrokaplan7243]

I feel like Bane breaking Batman is used too much in games and tv shows it feels like they don’t give the moment justice

[@tysondennis1016]

Really wish the future shown in #10 was an actual comic book 📚

[@Lowkeylie]

I know it’s not a comic, but the end of “Apokolips. Now!” from Superman The Animated Series. “In the end, the world didn’t need a Superman… Just a brave one.”

[@GTKavanagh]

The only thing I'd add to this analysis is that Slade worked for Terra. Not the other way around.

[@andrewlind3731]

"This is the day that a Superman died" from The Death of Superman (Superman Volume 2 Number 75)

[@Warbandit100]

Those are good memories, but alas, never gave me chills :/ I mean, after reading and trying to deconstruct every character we find, isn't normal to expect at least those endings? The only one I was shocked and happily surprised from, was the killing joke, cause as much as I loved the idea for a batman/joker ending like that, I never thought DC had the guts to do it (btw, the lunatics joke was a masterpiece, really had me roll on the ground laughing).

[@dupersuperrevolution]

So no watchmen? Cause to me when dr Manhattan tells Adrain. “In the end? Nothing ends Adrian, nothing ever ends” and then disappears is probably the most poignant ending I’ve ever read.

[@tenimeartstudios]

Didn't Brian Bolland, The Killing Joke's artist, already debunk that theory?

[@mikkelnpetersen]

1:23 Damian with a red lantern ring? of course.

[@preposteroustoast]

Wait what. He needs a katana ring.

[@l_rob420]

Batman: Endgame showing the last message Batman leaves being “Ha.”

[@pauldisaster9117]

Number 2 @ number 3??

[@CthulhuOnCam]

One I love. Alan Moores Superman. Where after killing Mr Myxiousplyx (no I will not find the correct spelling) superman depowers himself and walks of into the Antarctic wastes

[@cesarflamenco9484]

Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel is what you're referring to.

[@marcosolivarria9770]

Kingdom Come "Let's go home... and dream about the Future"

[@jamesomeara2329]

New Frontier was great. I miss that kind of optimism.

[@FizzleFX]

Most chilling story: Dr Freeze

[@Prettyboysad]

you talk a lot about the things Moore "set in stone" with the killing joke but he very specifically tells the reader this may not even be Jokers origin just the one he thinks is interesting at the moment and it is completely up in the air as to what happens at the end

[@OldMan339]

What happened to Terras brother Geoforce

[@finnoone12]

Flashpoint was so sad when Bruce cries

[@lohankarachay476]

Our sentence is up. UP.

[@jjkehrley]

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times. At the end of "The Killing Joke", Batman absolutely DID NOT strangle Joker, they shared a dark and twisted laugh!!! That's my opinion anyway.

[@flower_girl4983]

I don't get why people hate on new 52? I liked the art and is it the reason I started reading comics

[@MforMovesets]

I ask again, because I'm getting tired of it: Wasn't the point of Killing Joke to not actually know if Batman killed the Joker?! Oh I guess it's on Wikipedia right? Your only source?

[@kingbeauregard]

I'm pretty sure that people started saying "whoa, I wonder if Batman kileld the Joker?" only after the 90s and a taste for ham-fisted deconstruction became the norm. But TKJ is pretty much in continuity, right? Barbara's injuries and all? And the Joker was shown to be alive at some point or other after TKJ, right? All evidence points to Batman not killing the Joker; it even takes some doing to misinterpret the art on the last page, where Batman is clearly gripping the Joker by the shoulders, not the neck.

[@vdkotecha]

@@kingbeauregard it only really started after Grant Morrison said it on Kevin Smith podcast. Never heard it before then and people were now fawning over his batman work. The killing joke was in continuity as the published the last Batgirl story to set up her getting crippled.

[@TheRuneTail]

Screw the Titans for hiding that info. As Dinobot said “Tell them of the good and the bad and let them decide.”

[@hyperbolicraider4848]

DC has better story telling in comics and in animation.

[@kittyhoffman1748]

You forgot the screen where superman dies in Lois lanes arms