Batman #525

[brerrabbit]

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[tinygaylaura]

This is one of the first Batman comics I ever bought

In that far off year of *Mumbles* when I was *Mumbles* years old

The Batman aniated series was on the air

And Heart of Ice meant that Mr Freeze was my favourite Batman villain

And I found a website that had information on where comics characters appeared and since I had a comic shop near me with a big back issue section this was one of the comics I looked for

And found

At the time I thought I must have missed an issue that explained why Mr Freeze had a pair of rhyming criminals as his henchmen and why Batman just casually mentions that he is aware of the fact hell exists and is on guard for stuff coming from it.

I would learn I was wrong in time this is just a very weird comic but I enjoy it

For rhyming hoodlums these two are very acquainted with insurance law tho

I love how Mr Freeze is SHOCKED that people might be reluctant to do business with an insane man dressed like a Power Ranger whose also one of the cities most wanted murderers

"How

HOW could they possibly see through my scheme"

[thanekos]

" Rappers, Ice, we ain't. " said Cube.

[tinygaylaura]

"I need a pair of henchmen who suit my specific M.O

Who fit my aesthetic perfectly

Yes

Two poets

Who speak only in rhyme

And one of them will dress like they are down to fuck

That is what my crime sprees have been misssing"

[donnblake]

"Stop rhyming now, Ice, and I mean it!"

"Sure- anybody want a peanut?"

[tinygaylaura]

It is inconceivable that anyone would not get this reference

[lego_joker]

Not one of Moench's better efforts - even by the lowered standards of his '90s run - but I've still got a decent amount of nostalgia for it. Freeze feels like the last villain a Gothic Horror guy like Kelley Jones would be interested in drawing, but he makes it work decently here.

[icon_uk]

This has the feeling of a mandated crossover that the writer wasn't remotely interested in and so entirely ignored, as Freeze basically doesn't do anything that he couldn't do before, despite claiming that Neron had granted him "Cryokinesis" powers in exchange for his soul.

Agreed though that, even though I'm not a big fan of Kelley Jones, he draws an impressive looking Freeze.

[lego_joker]

I believe Kelley Jones has explicitly said he bowed out every month Batman was expected to tie in to a Big Crossover (Contagion being the only exception he named), so it's likely this was one he and Moench had already finished, then retroactively squeezed under the crossover banner when editorial announced it. Hell, for all we know Denny O'Neil was the one who inserted all the tie-in references.

(For what it's worth, the Neron-powered Freeze had showed up in Green Lantern fighting Kyle the month before this. He'd indeed shed all his armor and weapons and could shoot ice straight out of his hands, not unlike the version The Batman did ten years later.)

[tinygaylaura]

I will never understand why DC regularly tries to redesign Freeze like this when he has such a cool (HAHAHA) visual to begin with