Not Comics: Paul Weissburg Warns People About Content Of New Batman Animated Movie

Here. I think that's an honest articulation of what many people, even fans, sometimes feel about specific pieces of superhero art that tweak their underlying, antiseptic innocence for a little story juice.

The animated adaptations of famous comics stories from DC tend to be a little square and ordinary for my taste, with aesthetic shortcomings in terms of the quality of the animation and a zealot's belief in the source material that can make the stories leaden. The Killing Joke in comics form was a dubiously conceived project -- by writer Alan Moore's admission -- primarily executed by two craftsmen of significant, sustaining power. At the culmination of an era where a lot of people thought the road to serious comics went through Gotham City, or, I don't know, Attilan, I think the value of that particular work was overstated. I'll be interested in the final result of the animated version for that reason for more than the story itself.
 
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