Batman #706

[superfangirl1]

Comments

[mistersandman]

Is that a collar? Ew.

[big_daddy_d]

Interesting. I wonder if this is this continuity's Carrie Kelley.

Also, Riddler looks weird.

[akodo_rokku]

It's Kitrina Falcone, introduced way back at the beginning of this run. Just after Bruce "died".

[big_daddy_d]

Oh. Well I haven't been reading Batman for a while.

[jaybee3]

I wonder how long she'll last once Tony Daniel is off the book. I haven't seen any other Batbook even mention Kitrina's existence even though Selina has apparently taken her in and the return of the Falcones to Gotham has been mentioned.

[lyraeinne]

I think she needs a little more development to be viable in other books, but I kind of hope she sticks around. The world needs more girlbats.

[icon_uk]

Or girlcats... as it were.

[perletwo]

I haven't been following this title - Eddie's evil again?! Last time I checked in he was having 'headaches.'

[superfangirl1]

A bomb blast concussion made him evil again?

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1172419.html?#cutid1

[perletwo]

...Okay. I also come down on the side of liking E. Nigma, P.I., but whatevs.

Who's the sidekick chick, and why must her costume be so similar to Squire's?

[superfangirl1]

She is his daughter. Have the batbooks every said he had a kid?

[kamino_neko]

She calls herself Riddler's Daughter (and Riddler calls her 'my daughter' in the last issue), but there's no indication she actually is, rather than simply being inspired by him. (Much like Joker's Daughter, before the reveal of her origin.)

[superfangirl1]

Ah,okay.

Thanks for the explanation. :)

[kamino_neko]

Riddler's Daughter, introduced in the Titans East arc of Teen Titans. She hung out with Joker's Daughter at the time.

[perletwo]

Ah yeah, that was just before I got back into comics - Duela was just getting killed about the time I hopped back aboard.

[psychopathicus_rex]

That's EDDIE?! That's not Eddie. Even if he IS, technically, Eddie, he's not Eddie. Eddie doesn't look like that.

[mullon]

1. Eddie's hair is silly.

2. Wearing a mask over a mask is silly.

[uadlika]

1. He looks like Jim Carrey with long hair. That's not an association I want to be reminded of.

2. Several Batboys (Jason, Tim) would disagree.

[pyrotwilight]

Bats: Eddie, we both know you don't have a kid, what's the deal with "Enigma"?

Riddler: What can I say, she's a Riddle.

Bats: *facepalm*

[jlroberson]

Yawny yawny yawn.

[maxisanacorn]

Stupid. I want semi-inept PI Eddie back. I like shades of grey in characters. He seems like Joker-lite this way.

[icon_uk]

It's one of the biggest problems with the Riddler that he IS very Jokerish, both tend to use an elaborate, childish theme for their crimes, gimmicking toys and puzzles.

They lampshaded it in BTAS (Mad Love), when the Joker is trying to work out which deathtrap to inflict on Batman, and mutters to himself as he pores over his plans; "Boring... lame... not funny... been done... too Riddler"

Not that I'm disagreeing with you of course, I loved E Nigma PI!

[wizardru]

Well, this is disappointing. Riddler, PI may have been kind of weak, but the concept was actually really interesting. It took a character who was (and now again IS) rather one-note and made him something more interesting.

Now he's back to just being one of twenty bat-villains with a shtick. The PI angle made him interesting, even if he was represented as being less competent as a hero than a villain. Better writing could fix that. This 'joker-lite' version of the Riddler? Meh.

[beoweasel]

I agree.

[karunya]

Richard, you've been using that Suzanne Somers thigh-crunching thing again, haven't you? Well done.

[r0b666]

Tony Daniel's Batman - sidekicks for EVERYONE.