COMICS: BATGIRL #41 Variant Cover Pays Homage To THE KILLING JOKE

COMICS: BATGIRL #41 Variant Cover Pays Homage To THE KILLING JOKE

DC has released first looks at a number of the Joker variant covers for their batch of June titles, and Rafael Albuquerque's artwork for Batgirl #41 recalls a notoriously nasty moment from Alan Moore's The Killing Joke. See that & more after the jump...

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By MarkCassidy - Mar 14, 2015 08:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Comics
Source: CBR
CBR debuted our first look at the cover, along with Joker variants for The Flash #41 by Eddy Barrows and Marcelo Maiolo; Gotham Academy #7 by Craig Rousseau; Justice League #41 by David Finch, Jonathan Glapion and Brad Anderson; and Superman. #41 by Karl Kerschl. There's also a full list of the June titles that'll be taken over by the Clown Prince of Crime.











"Action Comics" #41 by Darwin Cooke

Aquaman" #41 by Walter Simonson and Laura Martin

"Batgirl" #41 by Rafael Albuquerque

"Batman" #41 by Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth 

"Batman/Superman" #21 by Jock
"Catwoman" #41 by Javier Pulido

"Deathstroke" #7 by Lee Weeks and R&T Horie

"Detective Comics" #41 by Patrick Gleason and John Kalisz

"Gotham Academy" #7 by Craig Rousseau

"Gotham By Midnight" by John Van Fleet

" Grayson" #9 by Dave Johnson

"Green Arrow" #41 by Bill Sienkiewicz 

"Green Lantern" #41 by Ben Oliver 

"Harley Quinn" #17 by Eduardo Risso

"Justice League" #41 by David Finch & Jonathan Glapion and Brad Anderson

"Justice League of America" #1 by Howard Porter and Hi-Fi 

"Lobo" #7 by Neil Edwards & Jay Leisten and Jeromy Cox 

"New Suicide Squad" #9 by Jim Lee and Alex Sinclair 

"Secret Six" #3 by Dan Jurgens & Danny Miki and Alex Sinclair

"Sinestro" #12 by Joshua Middleton 
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Superman" #41 by Karl Kerschl

"Superman/Wonder Woman" #18 by Cliff Chiang

"Teen Titans" #9 by Scott McDaniel and R&T Horie

"The Flash" #41 by Eddy Barrows and Marcelo Maiol
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"Wonder Woman" #41 by Brian Bolland
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MoodyMax
MoodyMax - 3/14/2015, 8:38 AM
*Pays homage to.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/14/2015, 8:43 AM
Aye your'e right...thanks
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 3/14/2015, 8:48 AM
Before people moan and bitch, it's Joker's 75th Anniversary.

They have done 75th Anniversary covers for Batman and Flash.

Superman had variant covers to Scott Snyder and Jim Lee's Superman Unchained #1 with covers about Superman through the various decades.
CombatWombat
CombatWombat - 3/14/2015, 8:50 AM
The Superman one is hilarious!
SentinelofLiberty
SentinelofLiberty - 3/14/2015, 9:05 AM
The Batgirl one is, to me, everything the Joker should be. That shit is terrifying.
campblood
campblood - 3/14/2015, 9:16 AM
Superman one is the best , that's my new desktop wallpaper
SoFresh
SoFresh - 3/14/2015, 9:22 AM
That Superman one is freaking hilarious.
Lemons
Lemons - 3/14/2015, 9:24 AM
These are great
grif
grif - 3/14/2015, 11:53 AM
the killing rape
OrionPax
OrionPax - 3/14/2015, 1:13 PM
The Batgirl one is great!! I enjoy the Gotham Academy and Flash covers as well!
batcheeks8
batcheeks8 - 3/14/2015, 2:05 PM
The Killing Joke is a disgusting book and this is a disgusting cover.
FlapjackAce
FlapjackAce - 3/14/2015, 3:06 PM
That second one could easily be replaced with wolverine and deadpool.
Love these, I would totally hang the justice league one up in my room.
RichardBoldly
RichardBoldly - 3/14/2015, 3:56 PM
I really can't understand how the fans [frick]ing LOVED when The Joker put Babs on the wheel chair.

I mean, [frick].

Theres STILL very little amount of strong female characters, in comicbooks, and Frank Miller went on and simply underpowered her. I know she's smart as [frick] but stilll............

There's this bias that woman can't "go to war" and defense themselvs.

Oh boy.
PsyGuy
PsyGuy - 3/14/2015, 6:26 PM
The Batgirl one is in bad taste...
PsyGuy
PsyGuy - 3/14/2015, 6:34 PM
"Remember when Batgirl got raped?? Let's revisit it together with this creepy cover!"

All of the other ones are either funny or feature the hero fighting, yet Batgirl (who is aimed at younger female audiences now) gets to pose crying with Joker wearing the same outfit from The Killing Joke?

PCisAnEvilStateOfMind
PCisAnEvilStateOfMind - 3/14/2015, 7:04 PM
@Psyguy You and the other other fans of comics should remember one thing. Joker is a deranged,sicko,s.o.b! Funny that the vast majority of comicbook fans forget that about him. You just wanna think he is a funny man? Ha! What a maroon!
PsyGuy
PsyGuy - 3/14/2015, 7:29 PM
@PCisAnEvilStateOfMind

I dont think he is just funny, just stating a fact about the other covers.

I do think there can be a time and place for something this dark, this just doesn't seem like a good fit. Don't really think the storyline should have happened to begin with, but perpetuating rape culture on a young reader's book is strange...
PsyGuy
PsyGuy - 3/14/2015, 7:33 PM
Plus, if you've read Batgirl you know this is such a misrepresentation. She'd beat the crap out of him!
BeyondTheGrave
BeyondTheGrave - 3/14/2015, 9:02 PM
Maybe he shoots her for wearing that abomination and called it a bat suit.
Batman5
Batman5 - 3/14/2015, 9:33 PM
That batgirl cover is amazingly beautiful. Gotta pick that up for sure, want a poster of that on my wall.

And you guys complaining about the cover and the killing joke storyline??? Are you kidding me? Yes it's a very dark and adult story but that is also what makes it so great. It's the joker guys, what do you expect?
Demonluv
Demonluv - 3/14/2015, 9:39 PM
Feminists are freaking out over this cover. There is a twitter hashtag campaign to have it changed/censored. It's the Spiderwoman cover fiasco all over again.
So anyone who likes this cover (and you should, it's dope) get ready to possibly have feminists censor it.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 3/15/2015, 6:50 AM
Yes, what happened to Batgirl was disgusting because the Joker is a disgusting, evil villain...that what evil villains do.

It's fiction.
PsyGuy
PsyGuy - 3/15/2015, 9:54 AM
Why does everyone keep saying I'm upset with the Joker himself or something???

Was simply commenting on the platform. I work at a comic book store and personally witness tons of 8yo-up girls who just love Batgirl since her redsign/new team. That's Batgirl's target audience. I guess it's just a variant that isn't reflective of the story, so no real harm is done. Still feels weird though.
PCisAnEvilStateOfMind
PCisAnEvilStateOfMind - 3/15/2015, 10:45 AM
Only because you make it weird.
RexMason
RexMason - 3/15/2015, 5:24 PM
pfff... just give us back Oracle please.
gushisgosh
gushisgosh - 3/15/2015, 5:31 PM
So, girls can't take what boys can, they are too weak, to sensitive, too frail?
is that it, feminists?
No one complained about death in the family.
So, when it's a guy/boy being terrorized it's art, but when it's a woman/girl, it's triggering?
lol.
And oh, no one of the young heroes is that much of a baddass to be immune to joker.
Maybe he used the same thing he did with jason tod?
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 3/15/2015, 9:23 PM
PsyGuy's absolutely right. In The Killing Joke Babs had no idea Joker was there. She was completely defenseless and he shot her. This cover completely misrepresents what happened and makes Batgirl look like a helpless damsel.

Killing Joke is a landmark story, but not something they should celebrate on the cover of a Batgirl comic. "Hey remember that time Joker paralyzed and raped Barbara? That was awesome!"
Demonluv
Demonluv - 3/16/2015, 9:20 PM
Annnnd DC pulled the cover.
Called it.
Thanks feminists!
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