Batman and the Joker have always been two terrifying sides of the same coin, a hero and a villain locked in a mythic struggle that will never end, either in death or defeat. Or as Heath Ledger’s Joker said in 2008′s The Dark Knight, ”I get the feeling that you and I are destined to do this forever.”But what if it did end? What would the final, fatal confrontation between the Clown Prince of Crime and the Dark Knight look like? Writer Gerado Preciado and artist Daniel Bayliss attempt to answer that question in a 14-page fan comic called “The Deal,” a gorgeous but unnerving look at the co-dependent heart of the relationship between the two characters, and the illusory nature of stories — or perhaps even life itself. moonheadpress
