Penguin and Catwoman have sex in Danny DeVito’s wild Batman comic

From everything I’ve heard, Danny DeVito (Batman Returns() truly is a beautiful human being. I don’t want to tarnish that.

So to be clear, when I tell you “Danny DeVito wrote a Penguin story in which he and Catwoman team up to have lots of sex and also solve the COVID0-19 pandemic” I am thinking nothing but “Damn, Danny DeVito, this is a kind of boldness in self-favoritism that I love to see.”

Is there anything else happening inside our favourite comics’ pages? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. You may not have enough context. However, there will be many great comics. This is the latest edition.


Batman muses to the Batfamily that the Penguin and Catwoman have been awfully quiet since they vaccinated the entire planet and ended the pandemic — Catwoman and Penguin have adopted six children and are devoting themselves to making “usurpers and cheap crooks [...] deeply miserable” in Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant (2021).

Image: Danny DeVito, Dan Mora/DC Comics

Gotham City Anniversary Giant is, I suppose, in honor of the anniversary of some of its featured villains, like the Penguin (80th), Scarecrow (80th), Killer Moth (70th), and the Red Hood (70th), but it’s the anniversary of none of the RestNames of all the characters. Still, G. Willow Wilson and Emma Ríos’ Poison Ivy story for it rules extremely hard.

And also, I don’t know if I mentioned, there’s a story written by Danny DeVito in which the Penguin and Catwoman bang, adopt three penguins and three kittens as children, and solve the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Orb, a humanoid with a giant eyeball for a head and another smaller but still very large eyeball embedded in their chest in a web of thorns, engages in a long, rambling monologue about how they carry on the Watcher’s solemn duties: “I observe! I leer! I ogle! [...] the people who so perversely delight in [suffering]. The real sickos, I mean.” in Avengers #50 (2021)

Image: Jason Aaron/Marvel Comics

Avengers #50 was Jason Aaron’s chance to team up with a million artists to tie up some plot lines (She-Hulk is svelte and articulate again in time for her new solo series) and seed new ones (Howard Stark became the armorer for a multiversal coalition of Mephistos in exchange for immortality???) to the next leg. I especially liked one thing: The Orb, who maybe stole the Watcher’s eye? It is also a complete creep.

Thirty lavishly illustrated and totally unique Amazon warriors stand ready like it’s an Annie Leibowitz photoshoot in Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (2021).

Image by Kelly Sue DeConnick/DC Comics

These are the 30 Amazon warriors designed by Annie Leibowiz. I’ve been waiting for Wonder Woman History: The AmazonsIt was so good that I bought the printed edition, even though it had been digitally read. That’s just how gorgeous this book is.

Nightwing and Red Hood (Jason Todd) walk away from the burning Batmobile all cool-like in Nightwing Annual #1 (2021).

Image: Tom Taylor, Daniel HDR/DC Comics

There aren’t a lot of Dick Grayson-Jason Todd team-up stories out there, in part because — beyond a certain point — they were intended to be at odds. Dick Grayson never wanted it, but he got it from a mentor who he had been on the outsides with and died before they really got to know one another. Tom Taylor, Cian Tormey, and Daniel HDR’s Nightwing AnnualIt fills in some historical details and is a great looking job.

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