The Riddler, year one

Paul Dano, 1984-

Book - 2023

"As depicted in Matt Reeves's hit movie The Batman, the Riddler wasn't simply an amusing eccentric with an affinity for wordplay and baffling clues, but as terrifying a villain as any in the annals of the Dark Knight. How did an unknown forensic accountant uncover the dark secrets of Gotham's underworld and come so close to bringing down the entire city? This collection is an immediate prequel to The Batman-the detailed, disturbing, and at times shocking story of a man with nothing to lose."--

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Genres
Graphic novels
superhero comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Superhero comics
Published
Burbank, CA : DC Black Label [2023]
Language
English
Main Author
Paul Dano, 1984- (author)
Other Authors
Stevan Subić, 1982- (artist), Clayton Cowles (letterer), Bill Sienkiewicz
Item Description
"Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger"
"Originally published in single magazine form in The Riddler: Year One (2022) 1-6."
"DC Black label"--Cover.
Physical Description
1 volume (unapaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN
9781779523068
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Actor Dano's comics debut turns the backstory he dreamed up to enrich his performance as the Riddler in 2022's The Batman into a dank origin story of the villain. Drawn with shattered-glass intensity by Subic (the Conan the Cimmerian series), this standalone volume follows Edward Nashton's steady march from brutalized foundling to sad-sack accountant to rising terrorist warlord looking to "cut out the rot" in Gotham (a phrase he scrawls obsessively across expense forms). Pulling straight from the Paul Schrader and Andrew Kevin Walker handbook for awkward, disaffected psychopaths, Dano lays on the humiliation, self-hatred, and moral disgust until it seems impossible for Edward to do anything but turn murderous vigilante. Though the series' gothic gloom is heavy-handed, it creates an effectively claustrophobic mood as Edward, accidentally and then obsessively, uncovers a web of deceit connecting Gotham's Mafiosi with political leaders and industrial tycoons. His desire to purge the city seems borne less from idealistic hatred of corruption and more from a desire to avenge the trauma that broke him in a Wayne family--funded orphanage. It's a familiar schematic but well done, and deepens a villain often rendered as a punch line. (Nov.)

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