The Riddler’s new costume is the best and worst yet for Batman comics

Fashion has been refreshed at the Riddler Detective Comics, and I couldn’t be happier for him.

Sometimes it can be difficult to modify the Riddler. Numerous writers and artists have attempted to modernize the flamboyant, verdantly suited, and nattily-hatted quizzer into something more aligned with modern fashion — both in terms of clothes and the changing vibe of comic book supervillains. He’s been given question-mark scars and scantily clad henchwomen with themed names. One time, he started to wear black lipstick and a suit that had a shirt with the black color. wantonly unbuttoned to show off his question-mark neck tattoo. These looks are not permanent.

This is why I am so in love with this one. Because Mariko Tamaki and Nadia Shammas have finally found the best reason for the Riddler to wear a bowler in 2022: He’s an insufferable menace who delights in being awful on purpose. This’s showing your understanding of the character.

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“Who can still be surprised at something as tragic as a bombing in Gotham? A tourist,” says the Riddler in a panel that’s a closeup of his lips and silly curled mustache. The next panel has pulled out to show his streaming radio show setup as he opines on whether anyone can “truly know what lies in the heart of the person next to you?” in Detective Comics #1059 (2022).

God. A close up of his awful mustache I hate it! He’s forcing Gotham to listen to his daily morning show (on radio and streamed as live video) where all he does is pontificate in a plausibly deniable way about the latest rash of murders he’s obviously responsible for! It’s perfect, and I hope it lasts forever!

“Whoever this ‘space-time hobo’ is — he’s no servant of the ‘black winter’!!” exclaims Taaia as Loki steps out of a portal and asks for his friend Verity in Thor #750 (2022).

For the many folks who hold Al Ewing and Lee Garbett’s Loki, Agent of AsgardThey should keep their feelings close to their chests and know they will get a short story that returns to the version they have of him. Thor #750!

“You will be mourned!” declares Pariah angrily as with a THOOM he causes Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman to disintegrate into dust in Justice League #75 (2022).

The Justice League … is dead. Which we knew was going to happen in this week’s landmark Justice League issue, in order to pave the way for DC’s upcoming crossover event series Dark Crisis, which is all about their sidekicks and friends picking up the pieces of Earth’s defense against newly energized supervillains. Still: Pariah? Pariah was the one who killed the Justice League.

He is a true gentleman.

Mutants Skin and Madison Jeffries sit on a cliff on Krakoa and discuss feeling at home in their mutant bodies in Sabretooth #3 (2022)

Sabretooth, the comic about Sabretooth, keeps surprising me with what it’s actually about with every issue. Are we doing The Good Place but with the X-Men’s least redeemable villain? Do we want to do an Alcatraz escape with Krakoa as the villain? Do we want to write a book on the challenges of minor mutant characters living in paradise but with all the power being held by those with the most powerful mutations and their friends?

Whatever the answer turns out to be, in the meantime, the book is doing my favorite X-Men thing: introducing me to a bunch of characters I’ve never actually read about before and making me fall in love with them.

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