Cover analyse

Analyse

Genre:

Batman: The Joker’s Last Laugh is not a typical front cover of a comic. Generally in comics there is alot of pictures and text showing some events or different characters from the comic. Where as in this comic there is two pieces of text and one large picture of the joker on the front cover. This does tell the reader the comic is completely about the joker and most other characters in the comic only play minor parts in the comic. This comic does not have the usual things such as; Price, date, tagline. Only has a few things making the reader not able to guess anything from the front of the comic.

Lettering/font styles and sizes:

The text used on the front cover is very plain and simple. The text used in the speech bubble for “THIS ONE’LL REALLY KILL YOU!” is the only piece of text that uses typical comic book text that most of comic books tend to have for the text in the actual comic. The text on the front cover is not very eye catching in anyway shape or form therefore some people could easily miss or not want to look at the comic. Also the text size is quite small so could be easily skipped.

Image: Main character/icon:

 Large image of the main character in the comic. This shows who the comic is about without having to read the title of the comic as the Joker is a well known character. Very realistic drawing of the joker. Over exaggerated facial expression. Bold, strong colours.  The image of the joker is a typical stereotype of him which the reader can see from the facial expression on the joker’s face. As he looks evil and as if he is up to something,  a typical “bad guy”. Dark background. Helps everything else on the front cover of the comic to stand out. Background isn’t important in any way. The image of the Joker is the typical image you would expect to see of him. However the suit he is wearing isn’t the typical purple suit with a green tie that the joker is normally seen in.

Representation: No other characters apart from the joker are used on the front cover.

Audience: I think this comic is more mature so maybe 14-20 year olds would buy the comic. There is nothing about price or age restrictions on the front cover of the comic.