Batman (1940-2011) #452

Batman (1940-2011)

by Peter Milligan, Mike Mignola (Cover Art), Joe Quesada (Cover Art)

Batman is led through a labyrinthine urban maze by his old nemesis the Riddler, who seems to have changed into an abominable monster with one purpose: to drive Batman insane.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics

23 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 19, 1990

About the author

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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.

He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.

His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.

Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).

Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix

Reviews

[James DeSantis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Milligan can be a bit wordy, and he is here, but this issue almost all works.

Riddler is playing games. And while not my favorite villain, he can make up some exciting moments. In this he's playing a game where letting a woman die in front of the Batman, then he tries to hang a cop and Batman has to rescue him, and then he abducts babies and uses them as a ploy to make Batman pretty much do everything in his power to save them.

Way darker than I expected, but enjoyable. Not sure about that last page though. Let's find out.

[Elizabeth Trupiano · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Question. Why do people think being part of the nuclear family gives them a greater right to live?”

I have often wondered this myself. I really enjoyed the Riddler but I didn’t quite love the writing style.

[Regina · Rating 3 out of 5]

The cursive font is a bit hard to read and it's giving me a headache, but aside from that, an entertaining read.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dark Knight,Dark City

[Matthew Kelm · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a link to the Lord Byron Poem that is referenced as Riddler's clue https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...

[Landon · Rating 3 out of 5]

You could have given 100 guess what that last two pages would be and I’d have said well a zombie of course approximately zero times