THE BATMAN Star Paul Dano Teases Possible Return As First Look At RIDDLER: YEAR ONE #1 Comic Is Revealed

THE BATMAN Star Paul Dano Teases Possible Return As First Look At RIDDLER: YEAR ONE #1 Comic Is Revealed

The Batman star Paul Dano has talked briefly about possibly returning as Edward Nashton down the line, while we also have a twisted first look at DC Comics' upcoming Riddler: Year One #1 comic book...

By JoshWilding - Jul 26, 2022 06:07 AM EST
Filed Under: The Batman

The Batman looks set to go down as 2022's best superhero movie, but there's still no definitive word on a sequel. We know one is coming, but Warner Bros. missed a trick by not making it official during a panel at this past weekend's San Diego Comic-Con.

Paul Dano, however, was on hand at the event to hype his upcoming comic book series, Riddler: Year One. Talking to IGN about possibly returning as Edward Nashton on the big screen, the actor shared his excitement to "get in there" with a sequel, adding: "If they call, me I'll show up." 

As for that prequel story, Dano is writing the series and will be joined by artist Sevan Subic. It's set to arrive in comic book stores on October 25, and "explores the background of how accountant Edward Nashton went from a simple Gotham City nobody to becoming Batman’s nemesis, setting them on a collision course in the blockbuster feature film."

A first look has been revealed, and it seems like a suitably twisted exploration of how Nashton became the serial killer known as The Riddler.

Fans are keen to explore this "Year One" setting after The Batman threw us into Bruce Wayne's second year as Gotham's Dark Knight. We actually see the hero here in what appears to be the first time the future Riddler catches a glimpse of the figure who would inspire his twisted killing spree.

When we spoke with Dano earlier this year, we asked the actor what it was like getting into The Riddler's mindset. "Matt laid out a beautiful script, but a great challenge as well," he said. "The first conversation he and I had were about hero and villain and the two sides of trauma."

"I think that was really the seed from which everything else grew. You can’t just jump to the villain part of the madness. Taking it from there and slowly building his past to page one and how that gets you there and who he was without the mask and what the mask allows him to be."

Check out this first look at Riddler: Year One #1 below:
 

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McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/26/2022, 6:45 AM
The art is sick
AC1
AC1 - 7/26/2022, 6:49 AM
That's a really interesting art style
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/26/2022, 7:53 AM
@AC1 - I’ve seen this art style in other comics some in Batman , one may have been in lobo , think judge dredd maybe you don’t see to much of this style any more
Forthas
Forthas - 7/26/2022, 7:43 AM
He should come back! The Riddler was able to do virtually everything he planned, and Batman was unable to stop him. Not sure what the makers of this film were thinking. A Batman movie where Batman is completely ineffective.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/26/2022, 8:59 AM
@Forthas - truly. Batman is a moron for 3 hours in this.
amesjazz
amesjazz - 7/26/2022, 9:16 AM
@Forthas - That's the whole point though. Batman is still young and this was his first real case. He is smart but also just lacks the experience.
Forthas
Forthas - 7/26/2022, 10:05 AM
@amesjazz -

It looked bad though! In fact, it seemed like Catwoman was more of a superhero than Batman...

1) she set up the "score"that turned up the dead body of her friend
2) she infiltrated the Iceberg lounge which led to the clue that there was a "rat"
2) she captured the currupt police officer who told them all about Falcone
3) she retrieved her phone evidence that got Falcone arrested, and
4) she saved Batman from one of the shooters

..and she was not even trying to be a hero.
TheVengeance
TheVengeance - 7/27/2022, 1:13 AM
@Forthas - he has street criminals running scared, he deduced the bomb plan, too late to stop it however (Riddler is supposed to be an intellectual foe) stops the mass shooting, saves people at Gotham Square Garden, so what the hell are you talking about? A villain has to be formidable for a film to work, it’s what gives the protagonist their ultimate value. Is Joker in 89, Scarecrow and Ra’s in Begins, Joker in TDK, and Bane in Rises make Batman completely ineffective because they showed their strength and accomplished some of what they set out to do? Do you know how dumb you sound? Or does he need some random romantic interest form a previous movie to come in and wield all the powers Batman trained so hard to achieve in a matter of minutes and save the titular protagonist from a not menacing villain like say Thor Love and Thunder?
TheVengeance
TheVengeance - 7/27/2022, 1:14 AM
@McMurdo - Lol that whole film flew over your head
Forthas
Forthas - 7/27/2022, 1:41 AM
@TheVengeance - In all of the films you cite (Joker in 89, Scarecrow and Ra’s in Begins, Joker in TDK, and Bane in Rises) Batman STOPS the villains. He PREVENTS their overall goals. In the Batman, Riddler gives himself up...Batman did not catch him. The only thing Riddler failed to accomplish was killing Bruce Wayne. Other than that he did everyting he planned. He almost even got the newly elected Mayor but his henchman is a bad shot. I don't understand the praise that this film gets, given that Batman never solved anything of use to stop the Riddler. Everything he discovered is what Riddler wanted him to discover.

"he has street criminals running scared"
Actually in the movie he states in a monologue that he has been doing crimefighting for two years and crime has gone up

"he deduced the bomb plan"
No actually the Riddler told his followers in the prerecorded video. Batman only figured out where the bomb map was which did nothing to stop it.
dragon316
dragon316 - 7/26/2022, 7:54 AM
I like art if I buy it be for art
Blastaar
Blastaar - 7/26/2022, 8:17 AM
I LOOOOOOOVE that art! Holy sh*t! VERY good! Looks like it belongs in a gallery, not a comic book.

That said, I had SUPER high hopes for this character, and thought he'd be as scary as Jigsaw but I ended up being HIGHLY disappointed. I don't know WHAT went wrong but he fell FLAT, maybe somebody else can make a better explanation of why this Riddler started out so scary and with so much potential but fizzed out.

****HOWEVER, the ONE character that I thought was a TOTAL miscast turned out to be THE best thing about the movie, and that was The Penguin. I thought Colin Farrell was a HUGE miscast, but BOY was I wrong. Not only was the prosthetics and make-up work PHENOMENAL, he did an INCREDIBLE acting job as Oswald Cobblepot aka The Penguin.
He ended up being THE only thing I liked about the movie. This was one time that I was happy to be wrong about a casting decision. His performance was SOOO freaking good, and his look, that I ACTUALLY want a PENGUIN movie, starring Colin Farrell.
Blastaar
Blastaar - 7/26/2022, 8:19 AM
YOOOO ya'll have to HIGHLIGHT this artist!
Who the F IS this, who did the art?
Ya'll need to get back at doing that, highlighting some of these PHENOMENAL artists.
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 7/27/2022, 9:48 AM
@Blastaar - The article says Sevan Subic
Blastaar
Blastaar - 7/27/2022, 10:17 AM
@ElvenKingSlayer - Thanks, I was looking for it but couldn't find it, I looked at it again just now and STILL don't see it. Thanks of pointing it out though.
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 7/27/2022, 10:27 AM
Yeah it's kinda hard to see, almost hidden in the text. No joke. Easy to miss.

call, me I'll show up."

call, me I'll show up."

As for that prequel story, Dano is writing the series and will be joined by artist Sevan Subic. It's set to arrive in comic book stores on October 25, and "explores the background of how. It's set to arrive in comic book stores on October 25, and "explores the background of how
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