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It’s just that, good as the storytelling may be, the information it’s telling us isn’t all that memorable. I’m happy that we’re getting a book that’s consistent (both in quality and release schedule) out on our shelves for readers – and it’s not like there’s nothing interesting for me to say here. Even if I’d prefer this to be released as one collective edition, it is fun to look forward to the next issue every few weeks! Besides, spotting Stevan Subic’s updates on Twitter is a treat in and of itself.
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Perhaps that’s more of a skill issue on my part, but you try reviewing a movie in a series of 20 minute chunks. You already know this, of course – I said the same thing in my review for chapter 2! Eventually, critiques start to carry over from review to review, and no one likes to hear the same thing over and over again. Such is the curse of the monthly release cycle: when a story is designed for a single sitting yet its release is stretched out over months, retaining the comic’s information becomes hard. The reasons behind this problem aren’t all that special. What makes The Riddler: Year One special for me is that I feel that same problem – even though in this case, I know this book is good. I can think of so many books that, while not terrible, I didn’t have anything much to say about that I hadn’t already said in a previous issue. Sure, some good books were easy to write, but so were plenty of bad ones! The real problems came from those in the middle. After three years of reviewing for Batman News, I’ve tackled all kinds of books, good and bad and each of them had their own unique challenges when I would put my thoughts on them into words. Given he’s doing somewhat of the opposite with Robert Pattinson’s Batman himself, by restoring our hero to world’s greatest detective mode, thereby ridding him of the knuckle-headed, gun-toting baggage introduced by Zack Snyder in the awful Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, most fans would probably say he’s entitled to mess with the supporting cast as much as he likes.Reviewing The Riddler: Year One is an interesting experience.
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(Yes, they’re bringing back Michael Keaton, too).īearing in mind all the other Batmans we’ve seen in TV shows and animated feature films over the past decade or so, Reeves needs to both make his version of the caped crusader stand out from the crowd and ensure tired old treatments of Batman’s traditional rogues’ gallery are given a refresh for the post-Covid world. And the reboot will also have to contend with the fact that Batfleck is still out there somehow in Andy Muschiett’s forthcoming The Flash, which will delve into various alternate universes in which a number of different dark knights are set to appear.

Moreover, Reeves is battling to establish this new vision of Gotham against a backdrop of Batman overload – there have been nine big-screen efforts starring the caped crusader since Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989, 10 if you count Ben Affleck’s brief cameo in Suicide Squad.

We’ve already seen that The Batman will star a Penguin ( Colin Farrell) who bears little resemblance to the Oswald Cobblepot of, say, Batman Returns. There are other reasons why it would be little surprise if Reeves is cooking up Riddler 2.0. But what if Nashton never picked up the famous green question-mark costume and was ultimately pulled in a different, perhaps more psychopathic, direction? Nashton is traditionally the Riddler’s birth name, the one he used before deciding to become a supervillain. It’s also notable that IMDb lists Dano as portraying Edward Nashton, not Edward Nygma, giving the new Batman team considerable wiggle room when it comes to its depiction of the trickster. Consequently, the supervillain’s menace and guile have been slowly upgraded in most iterations since DC’s New 52 reboot in 2011 – this will be the first movie since then to feature the supervillain, so the approach makes sense.

The lightweight nature of the Riddler is a problem fans of the comics have often pointed out. So what’s going on here? The simplest answer is that Reeves has wisely pinpointed the traditional Riddler as far too much of a cheeky klutz to ever truly present Batman with any major threat in what promises to be the most grown-up big screen take on Gotham since Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. Geoff Johns’ Batman: Earth One saw the Riddler reimagined as a sadistic murderer who tortures his victims with riddles that he falsely claims will save them if they answer correctly.
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The mystery deepens when we consider that a version of the supervillain as serial killer also exists in the comics, albeit in an alternate DC universe.

Mainly cause the Zodiac Killer looked dumb as well. It has a certain intimidation factor to it, but it still looks dumb. It’s fairly obvious that the riddler in #TheBatman is inspired by the Zodiac Killer, and that’s fine.
