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Whose take on the Joker do you side with, Moore's or Miller's?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/07/frank-miller-and-john-romita-jr-discuss-the-death-of-jason-todd-in-batman-the-dark-knight-returns-the-last-crusade
IGN: [Laughs] Well, I meant from the artist's point of view.
Miller: 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.
IGN: That's a fascinating take on the Joker, that he's not crazy but satanic.
Miller: Well, it made for a good argument between me and Alan. You know, someone who is completely and absolutely insane wouldn't be as effective, if you ask me. I believe that people who are absolutely crazy, with very rare exceptions, don't get very far in life. They do kill people and so on -- I mean, there are people who are absolutely malevolent and insane but somehow capable of uncanny evil, obviously Hitler, Joseph Stalin, like that. But they are exceedingly rare, and usually the crazy ones get caught. But the truly evil ones can go on for a long time.
