#riddler one bad day

[just-an-enby-lemon]

This post is an apology to Tom King.

I recently re-read Riddler: One Bad Day and it's actually a masterpiece!

There's something truly fantastical about how Riddler's intelect is portrayed almost as a mystical power! The scene where Edward mind tricks all the cops into killing each other by laying on the floor and laughing like a maniac is pure art and I'm truly sorry for previously calling it "stupidly edgy", "the moment the comic lost all chance of salvation", "the final proof male power fantasies are a diservice to the entertaiment industry" and "soo dark is actually hilarious".

I also need to compliment the ambiguousness of if Riddler became who he is because of the abuse he endure or if his dad was abusive BECAUSE Edward was always bad is fantastically creepy and necessary. If your narrative does not have victim blaming as one of the possibilities in your moral debate about the inexistence of redemption and the need for violent cops ... I mean heros who kill the villains because evil will never stop nor change what's even the point?

I'm also sorry for my mean coments over Riddler reveling that he was part of Joker's attack against Barbara Gordon. It is actually a really nice nod to the original, specially in the way it reinforces Barbara's place as an useless plot point without agency that only serves to motivate her father. After all why would anyone ever want Babs to actually matter in an event that changed her life forever? Gordon is pissed. That's what matters.

The RIDDLER hating RIDDLES and using them to protect the world from himself by constantly re-living his trauma because actually the trauma was what stopped him from murdering for a long time and does that mean the story is retconing itself to show he was born evil? Is the BEST plot twist. If all future versions of Edward don't hate his gimmick and his own identity and think dorky people who tell riddles are actually stupid and puzzles are dumb than the comic industry will have to live in shame.

Back to talking about the portral of woman! I'm soo happy that the comic took away the voice from Edward's mother presenting her only by what her job as a sex worker represented to the people around her! Such a feminist take! And the snapy Riddler was justified in being mad that his henchmen sleept with his mother because being a sex worker is dirty actually. Gorgeus.

This comic also has the best teacher characther ever. He is so real for ignoring a kid's cry for help, considering their neurodivergent coded anxiety and dificulties are a case of needing to chill and seing all the most obvious sings of abuse ever as "very unchill kid behavior". And the comic is soo right for portraying this man as sympathetic and good and how if Eddie had stoped being a neurodivergent abused kid for a second and just chilled he would have been fine and never became a muderer. It's a life lession. Abused kids should just stop being anxious over the very real possibility of more abuse and neurodivergent people should just chill and everything will be fine. Doing nothing except blaming the crying desperated child for asking help is the right move!

Also Batman should kill. That's just a fact. Jason Tood has been saying it for years now and he is right. All heros should kill actually. Every comic should be exactaly like a Punisher run writen by an alt-right. Yes even the non-superhero ones. Yes even the manga. Yes even Donald Duck ones.

I could write pages and pages about how this is the perfect comic - bar the art style - but I think this is already a suficient apology for my previous misleading critics.

My next post will be a long explanation of why Batgirl vs Riddler: Prelude to the Wedding is actualy the best feminist comic ever written and Tim Seeley is actualy the only person allowed to represent woman in media ever.

[c0smic-horrorwerewolf]

Doing someone a favor <3

[gl1tchr]

What animal do you think each of the Riddles are?

Most seem to think rat, fox, etc and I see it.. but the one I see them all being is a Raccoon. Think about it.. mask, hands, the ability to be sneaky and do crimes. But I’d love to see your take! I do see that one bald edward (you posted a photo of kissing his bald head, I don’t know what his universe is called apologies) being a vulture of some kind.

here's some Visions I was granted I think you'll enjoy

Zero Year is definitely giving Raccoon the most to me (aside from the TMNT Riddler that's - literally a raccoon). Mischievous, sneaky, and a little round even. And, since his mask it black, it looks the Most like a raccoon's eyes :]

Arkham Knight Opossum. DON'T call him a rodent, it'll lead to a half-hour rant about how he's a MARSUPIAL, not a rodent. "Actually, there's an 'O' at the beginning-". Gets irate when he has to explain opossum are actually extremely clean and don't carry rabies.

22 Weasel <33 While Ed does give powerful rat aura, it felt mildly evil to turn him into an animal he clearly has some level of fear of/hate for fgkds so I've made him a weasel. Mousy brown, weirdly vertical, and big wet eyes that Look at you.

BTAS kitty. I feel like you could to an entire version of this with different cat breeds, but BTAS gives me classic ginger tabby. A mischievous little tomcat who loves to chase his Batman.

2004 Greyhound. insane 2004 Riddler cameo but I was gifted this from a seraphim. He has real long features n just an overall pitiful demeanor. Plus hit little choker looks like the thick collars they have to special make for greyhounds because of their dumb bicycle heads

Sale Riddler Mouse. I rlly feel like this just makes sense, he's such an unserious little guy. Literally picked on like a cartoon mouse by Batman the entire time. He's not a rat!!! he is a Fancy Mouse <3

fox Carrey Riddler. I'll be real. HAven't watched Batman Forever. Jim Carrey frightens and perturbs me. But just based on the images of him barring his teeth at me like he's gonna bite, he Feels like a fox. Quit GRINNING at me like that.

One Bad Day <333 my beloathed <3333 I agree with you, vulture fits him so well. can't wait for Batman to snap his dumb neck

[dailydccomics]

"you're an idiot." Batman: One Bad Day - The Riddler (2022) art by Mitch Gerads

[cma03draws]

Riddles.

[conundrumman]

UGHHHHH I LOVE HIMMMM OHM YG OD RIDDLER😟😟😕😕🙁🙁☹️

comic name :: one bad day (you’ll find it eventually. hes the bald riddler)

[sailor-toni]

I don't think I will check out the rest of the series from the library. I am okay letting The Killing Joke stay in the past.

[batmancurated]

by mitch gerads

[thesulkycroissant]

I know this is creepy for sure, the way it reads,

but I have not gotten the idea out of my mind since I read this of Riddler having genuine affection for the Robins

Like I read this and immediately thought of Riddler saving Tim-as-Robin from a Joker scheme bc of his outrage at what happened to Jason, and if I get up the energy I might even write it

[momachan]

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."

Batman: The Killing Joke.

[weeklyriddler]

WEEKLY RIDDLER 11/20

screams and goes back into hibernation again

BATMAN, ONE BAD DAY: RIDDLER #1 (2022) COVER VARIANT (I think)

ANYWAYS HI GUYS!! GIESS WHOS BACK!!! HI!!!

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Of all the fic ideas I never wrote and likely won't that I have the one I really wanted to wrote/might actually do is the OBD AU were Edward is raised by his mother. Part of it is because all my other ideas have a way higher chance to be actually used by someoene else intencionally or not but this one is seems very unlikely to me at least.

But mostly is because Edward's mom was a characther that really stayed with me after reading One Bad Day. And just like everything on that comic not in a good way. There is just something about her absence. How Edward's abusive father is a real person, he is there on flasbacks and he gets a real actual chance to try to explain himself. We see him by Edward's eyes but also by his own. And in a sense the comic is amost apologetic towards him, like he might done it wrong but he really tried his best with the genius kid he loved or something, that it makes sense that Edward being the son of whore would make him more impure and evil and harder to love and I just have no words for how shitty this all is.

But it gets worse because this abusive asshole gets a voice, he gets a chance to explain his side of the narrative. But Edward's mother doesn't. Not to Edward and not to us. Riddler killed her. He was angry and empty and she slept with his henchman (wich the comic points out as if it matters somehow) and he killed her on first meeting and we don't even see her trying to explain. Edward's mother exists as a blood stain on the wall and a dead body for shock value close to bloodied picture of Mary holding baby Jesus because subetly is too hard and we need to let clear she is the mother from the start and add some religious symbolism even if it's sorta meaningless in these context and in the words of a neighboor that might or not have being her client. Her status as a woman, as a sex worker, as poor all appear to be reasons somewhat that this is fine, that her brutal murder was bound to happen, that while she doesn't deserve her fate she doesn't mean and never meant anything more than a bloodstain in wall anyway.

She has no friends. Or if she has they are never mentioned because her neighboor didn't knew about them and Batman doesn't think she has anything to add so he never digs further. She has no partner or at least none went to the police or visited her house and if they did everyone though they were a client. Her only familly killed her the moment they met. She is insignificant. And one of the first things the neighboor says about her is: "saw her spoting a bruise on her cheek on the form of a cop badge" and "no one can save these pepple" and after he compliments her says her clients had taste and that she was nice and babysat his cat. But the bitter taste is already there and the fact that the neighboor didn't include himself on "these people" shows what he was talking about. Her brutal murder was inevitable. The cops woudn't help. Batman wouldn't notice because she didn't matter. Not even for him.

Edward's mother doesn't matter. She might be the cataclism for his change but even in that she has the same value of an inanimate object. Edward appears, screams with her, doesn't let her explain anythjng at all and just kills her. She has no voice. She has no importance. She doesn't matter even for the only thing she does. And it really angers me. It angers me that his dad got a scene that he deserved a moment. It angers me how misoginistic and anti sex work her treatment is but also how devoid of nothing. How a characther that could have changed the narrative, that in papper has a central role, means nothing because potential is irrelevant.

And between that and the idea that an Eddie that was raised by his mother not only might be closer to cannon Riddler in loving puzzles and riddles and not being the most over the top edgylord to ever edgy but instead follow my idea of a Riddler that learns to be unapologitically himself out of spite (this time a thing he learned copying his mother) this really makes me want to write it.

[dc-polls-not-the-og]

[gl1tchr]

When i got to the part in that comic where Riddler made him a beautiful three course meal and Batman basically went "fuck you" and just left i legit wanted him dead. Just fucking. Fine don't put out, don't drink the wine, don't eat the entire meal, but at least sit down 5 minutes and taste some! Do you want Ed to start on his bullshit again???

Sigh. Anyways, what're your thoughts on that depiction of Riddlers whole deal?

I WILL SAY I've only seen bits and pieces of that particular Riddler, I'd need to read them fully. But I will say, I've always believed to SOME degree that Batman actually is a bit unfair to Riddler. He DOES have genuine contempt for him that for SOME REASON HE DOESN'T HOLD FOR JOKER THE SAME WAY? Riddler's a piece of work, but Batman gets so aggressive with him so quickly and I think he doesn't realize Eddie is REALLY easy to manipulate. I literally thought "Jesus Bruce would a quick game of chess hurt?? Maybe a sit down and genuine heart to heart with Eddie could help him resolve some of these issues he's having" but Bruce actually has a bit of a blind spot there I feel.

[dailydccomics]

Harvey Dent in Batman: One Bad Day - Two-Face (2022) art by Javi Fernandez

[thereal-freakshow]

Update on the riddlers lobotmy saga (semi spoilers for future comics under cut)

Hes reforming agian!!!

sorry for the image i just saw it on twitter- but hey, if you like the dedctive arc for riddler , then its coming back

(sadly before echo and query, One day they'll come back i stg)