25. "Maybe I need to re-read Killing Joke, but I don't remember sexual" In response to In response to 0 Thu Mar-19-15 10:26 AM by lonesome_d
assault even being implied in it. So I don't really know where all that's coming from. Just strikes me as a reference to a famous story in which Joker shot Barbara Gordon (if memory serves, he didn't know she was Batgirl) at her home.
*edit* okay, I forgot about the pictures.
For the record, Gail Simone referenced the Killing Joke relatively recently in Birds of Prey, when the Joker tracked Oracle down and put things together that she was the young girl he'd shot all those years earlier.
I like the cover quite a bit, agree that it disagrees with the tone of the book but at the same time variant covers celebrating an anniversary almost never do. Doesn't strike me as a big deal (there are far more cringeworthy covers from every publisher on a regular basis), doesn't strike me as a huge deal that it was pulled either.