Batman: The Killing Joke & Remembering Kevin Conroy 

You couldn't ask for better words to hear from Kevin Conroy. Truly amazing sentiment, truly inspiring. And for him to even pull a Dave and mispronounce Imperius Rex...perfect.

I am sad that Kevin Conroy is gone because he was my Batman growing up.

It's really Brian Bolland's art that puts Killing Joke in a league of its own. Even Moore attests to that.

The Conroy video is incredibly moving. It really brought a tear to my eye. Not only was he the best Batman but the best Bruce as well. Rest In Peace the true voice of the Dark Knight.

I never got that from the joke at the end. That’s a great way to look at it. I interpreted it as Joker saying to Batman “you wear a bat suit, you’re just as crazy as me. How could you save me when you need help as well.”

Still sad about Kevin Conroy. I met him at NYCC a few years ago and he was such a lovely man.

R.I.P. Kevin Conroy. You were Vengeance. You were the Night. You were Batman. But you were also yourself.

Kevin's death hit me hard too, I cried like a baby. Thankfully I received a cameo from Kevin for my birthday a year ago and re watching it made me feel a lot better. RIP to Vengence, to The Night, to Batman.

The ending makes perfect sense. It would mean that moore made the ending open for interpretation, just like watchmen.

That was amazing... Insane shoutout. The channel must already feel like it made your dreams come through

Great video from Kevin. Sad to hear of his passing

So sad about Kevin, absolute legend

Editorial loves retconning this origin. In Hush returns they try to say it was the cops that killed his wife because.......yeah, I guess. Then in Three Jokers they make it out that he was very abusive.

Kevin was absolutely the all around definitive Batman (much as Mark Hamill is so for Joker). Sad to see another legend of the super-hero world leave us this year 😢 But their work shall live on! Batyear Forever ✊🖖

R.I.P Kevin. Kevin O' Neill too. Just ordered this absolute edition. My first absolute as I got it for a bargain v good condition £14. Love Moore.

Well, a couple of things about this that I have in my mind right now: first, Moore has said that he doesn't like Batman that much, and that he prefers Sups. No surprise he doesn't think too highly of it, the fact that he regrets crippling Barbara or that according to him, it contributed to an unnecessary darkening of comics during the 90s. On a related note, of the few bat stories he's written, his favorite is one featuring Clayface III (Preston Payne) in a Batman or Detective annual. Second, the origin of the Joker had been told before in a Silver Age story. That's where Moore took the concept of him being Red Hood and falling into toxic waste, but he added the tragic family story

Imperium Rex does sound pretty cool (and is a good way out of the inevitable Marvel lawsuit lol)

Justice is a function of love. I disagree that Batman's compassion is out of place at the beginning or uncharacteristic. He is one of the smartest things on the planet, of course he's verbose. I like to think that plea isn't the mask of Bruce Wayne or the Batman but what lies betwixt. The beating heart that drives the Crusade.

It was nice to see Multiversus be his lasting work.

thank you for this amazing video! ❤

Kevin Conroy as batman on some VHS cassettes cemented my childhood nerdyness RIP

Neal Adams, Tim Sale and now Kevin you gotta stop putting on the batgirl suit

Batyear Forever...I love it.

Little Jimbo is in the original just checked but never noticed before 😀 I much prefer the original colours they just add to the madness especially in the fairground section.

I've been saying this for years about The Killing Joke, a story even Alan Moore himself will say was phoned in, it's a better Two-Face story than a Jokester story. Why would Batman care if "one day we'll kill each other."? If it's his best friend Harvey Dent, it makes sense. Why Gordon? Well if it's former District Attorney Harvey Dent it makes sense (and would add a tone of weight to the three working together in Long Halloween). One Bad Day...what the fuck do you think happened to Two-Face?!(Bizarre that both Jokester & Two-Face was acid...man there's something in Gotham acid) One day on the verge of defeating organized crime, the next a mutilated husk dead set to run crime. Oh and the obvious rape of Barbara which everyone dismisses because no one can fathom the Jokester having a fuck, or a cock. Dent I'd buy doing that. The remorse at the end from Jokester (the only truly brilliant moment in the book imo) would have even more heft from Harvey. And Batman would absolutely share a laugh with his best friend way before he would some stranger in a purple suit. I could go on. TL;DR Killing Joke, great story, wrong character, so it's frustratingly meh.

R.I.P Kevin Conroy. Best Batman ever. Killing joke… Good joker story. Disturbing. Meh Batman story. Meh Alan Moore.

You guys been hitting the gym I see 😎

Batman lost his voice