The Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade

[cyberghostface]

"Alan Moore and I once had about a six-hour argument about the Joker, back when he did comic books -- because he believed that the Batman and Joker were almost parallels that were separated at birth. Alan had a much more, a sort of attitude of moral relativism about what was good and what was evil. I took a much more arched view, because I believe that the Joker is not so much insane as satanic. He's evil incarnate, and he's so malicious that it goes beyond anything we could understand. That's what's so terrifying about him, is that he simply wants to do as much harm and damage as he possibly can." - Frank Miller

Honestly not sure what to make of this. It doesn't really feel like a Joker story and it ends... well, see for yourself.

Comments

[michaelhealy]

I'm pretty sure that across Dark Knight Returns, Dark Knight Strikes Again and All Star Batman and Robin this Batman explicitly said, in internal monologue, that he enjoyed what he did.

[ekrolo2]

I think there are a few ways you can rationalize this, All Stars already explained here with the whole young thing which is brought back up in Returns with Bruce stating he feels like a young man again. This is him being in a place where he's basically going into if not already in a mid-life crisis.