She-Hulk #2 Image: Rainbow Rowell, Rogê Antônio/Marvel Comics Villa/Marvel Comicsĭestiny’s role in the whole Krakoan era has been to be ominous, powerful, and utterly poised, so this quick beat of her impotent rage at having Gambit for a son-in-law (she and Mystique raised Rogue, Rogue married Gambit back in 2018) is shockingly delightful. Artist Jim Lee fully sells horror of someone who knows this is the dumbest possible reason to be unable to ruin his enemy’s life, and still cannot do it. But then, that’s the Riddler! That’s the long and the short of him! A man whose mind irresistibly turns him against his own interests, trapping him in a loop of compulsion.
It’s an absolute farce of a reason, made even more hilarious when it’s growled out of Batman’s cowl, somehow in shadow even in a brightly lit room. Because a riddle that everyone knows the answer to isn’t a riddle at all. When the Riddler asserts that his new knowledge gives him the ultimate knife at Batman’s throat, Batman counters with an apparent non sequitur: What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence? And when Riddler scoffs at this, a riddle that everyone knows the answer to, Batman leans in, and tells him that that’s exactly why he’ll never tell anyone that Bruce Wayne is Batman. (And if you missed the last edition, read this.)īatman: Hush Image: Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee/DC Comics It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. The answer makes complete sense, and is also ferociously stupid. So you might ask yourself: How did Batman keep Eddie Nygma from spilling the beans all over Gotham? The Riddler, on the other hand, hates Batman’s guts and loves lording information over people.
This was a big addition to the short list of supervillains who knew Batman’s big secret, most of whom could be trusted with the information for reasons of sympathy or honor. He’d figured it out all on his own because, well, if characters like Ra’s al Ghul and Bane could simply deduce Batman’s true identity, then it follows the hyper-intelligent Riddler could as well.
See, for a good long stretch of DC Comics time before the 2011 reboot, the Riddler was fully aware that Batman was Bruce Wayne. In honor of The Batman, the Riddler’s first live-action, big-screen appearance since 1995, I need to talk about my favorite Riddler moment ever. Here at Polygon we like to spend (almost) every Monday celebrating the best moments in comics from the past week, but today I’d like to start with something a little different.
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