Joker's Asylum: The Riddler

[Dr. Naysay Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Dr. Naysay]

Anybody else give it a read?

I really enjoy this kind of "single issue" story even if the end "riddle" seemed fairly obvious to me.

Thoughts?

[Marvelous Iggy God Of Turtles Find all posts View Profile Close Marvelous Iggy]

http://www.thegreenlanterncorps.com/...t=6408&page=92

[Dr. Naysay Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Dr. Naysay]

Yea... I'm not jumping into a 92 page thread full of spoilers and every single Bat Book under the sun.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

I enjoyed it. I am also having fun trying to decipher the riddle and see all the clues and figure out who the shadowed figure is

[Dr. Naysay Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Dr. Naysay]

I enjoyed it. I am also having fun trying to decipher the riddle and see all the clues and figure out who the shadowed figure is

There were allusions to playing cards all throughout the story.

Shadows that looked like spades, a dead boyfriend with the nickname "Ace", her dress with "clovers" all over it, a crumpled shirt that looked like a spade, calling the girl the "Queen of Hearts, the sign in the background that read "9 clubs"....

the Deck of Cards visual clues are so abundant it would probably be easier to point out the panels where there wasn't some kind of reference going on.

I see only two possibilities. One is obvious and almost makes too much sense... the other one makes more "literary" sense but is close to impossible.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

Yea thats what caught my eye all the way through especially the crumpled shirt. I know it's obvious to think royal flush gang cause of the cards but that might be too easy. However it was the first thing my mind jumped too. And I think assuming it was the joker is just way too obvious. Is this same shadowed figure supposed to be the link for all the stories?

[Dr. Naysay Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Dr. Naysay]

Yea thats what caught my eye all the way through especially the crumpled shirt. I know it's obvious to think royal flush gang cause of the cards but that might be too easy. However it was the first thing my mind jumped too. And I think assuming it was the joker is just way too obvious. Is this same shadowed figure supposed to be the link for all the stories?

Yea the Joker is the "too obvious" option...

but I came up with a different secondary choice.














I think it was The Riddler.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

very interesting...would not think of him obviously cause he is the "victim". What makes you think it's him

[Dr. Naysay Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Dr. Naysay]

A couple of things...

I'm not at home at the moment so I can't quote the issue accurately... but it's just a bunch of stuff the Joker says about The Riddler going crazy, becoming a new person, being so crazy anyway that he always leaves the Police and Batman clues, the fact that the Police round him up at the end and say "we got a tip" or something like that...

None of it is rock solid and it all still works if you think it's The Joker... but this is a story about The Riddler.

If you approach the story thinking the mystery figure is The Joker... then it's really just a story about how The Joker tortured The Riddler.

If you approach the story thinking the mystery figure is The Riddler... then it becomes an even more interesting dissection of Edward Nigma and just how tortured by his own "Riddle Compulsion" he is.

I'm not really sure about it... and looking at it that way requires some kind of... split personality in The Riddler that I don't think we've ever really seen (except in Two Face... who was the FIRST Avatar of the Mystery Figure we're shown)... so I'm perfectly open to the idea that I'm way way way off track on this one.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

Interesting theory man.

[mateus R.D.J.'s Baby Mama Find all posts View Profile Close mateus]

great...was hoping to skip this, now i gotta get it!
curse you Naysay!

[Dr. Naysay Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Dr. Naysay]

Just read it again...

was struck by how many more "playing card" visual cues I picked up on this time.

Which made me think it was the Joker.


But then I saw some other things.... and I went straight back to thinking it was The Riddler.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

What were they. Im gonna have to re-read it again. Do you thinkk his list of riddles on the cover have any bearing? A stretch I know but why not?

[Dr. Naysay Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Dr. Naysay]

What were they. Im gonna have to re-read it again. Do you thinkk his list of riddles on the cover have any bearing? A stretch I know but why not?

Two sort of silly things...

One : We see the Riddler playing the piano. Green coat. Purple gloves.

When we see the man who shot her father walking away... green coat. Purple gloves.

Now I know that's also the Joker's dress code... but the fact that they did an extreme close up on the green sleeved/purple gloved piano playing stood out.

Two : The Joker refers to The Riddler and Edward Nigma. I know that one is flimsy at best.... but the fact that the author chooses at various times to make a distinction between the two... I dunno.

I just read it AGAIN... and now I'm not sure again.

Either way....

I love this comic.

[Lantern A-train Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern A-train]

It is a great story. I too noticed that they would switch between his names but just chalked it up as something minor...but maybe not