Apparently the Riddler issue also does a new take on his origin? King was not a fan of his comic or DCAU origins and decided to do his own take: https://www.thepopverse.com/tom-king...od-one-bad-day
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I always thought it worked because Riddler is just that petty and small when you get right down to it.
I mean, what's Scarecrow's origin? People bullied him because he looked so thin and wiry?
Penguin? Bullied because he looked like a penguin? Although I guess they have that whole "his family used to be on the same level as the Waynes...until they weren't."
i want to get all these but im hearing that there not gonna release all of them together in a hardcover smh
so i might have to go the single softcover issue route
Riddler was ok but it’s full of a lot of dumb turns that don’t hold up if you think about it. The Arkham guard wanted to kill Ridller and instead… misses at point blank range and hits his coworker? And then they all kill each other? What? Oh I guess Batman kills Riddler at the end. Riddler has plot armor until he doesn’t and then he instantly dies.
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Can't say I care for King's Riddler origin.
I also can't say I care for how much tracing of actual celebrities I saw Gerards do in this issue.
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Not the biggest fan of Tom King. But when he is good, he is very good. And this one-shot is excellent, one of the best Batman story of the last years (with Robin and Batman by Jeff Lemire). It's not in continuity, and all the better: it's a seminal version of the riddler, a good story, and if it was written in the 80's it would be a classic.
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Are all of these one-shots going to be trying to make the villains darker and edgier?