Twenty-five years after the release Batman: The Killing Joke, we're still debating the end of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's 1988 one-shot. But in "The Deal," a new fan comic written by Gerardo Preciado and illustrated Daniel Bayliss, there's nothing ambiguous about the final showdown between the Dark Knight and his arch-nemesis The Joker.

The 14-page story is bloody and brutal -- we're talking Se7en territory, "What's in the box?" all -- but it brings the nearly 75-year-old logical and disturbing, yet oddly touching, conclusion. See a beautiful work-safe page below, and read the entire comic here.