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Bat Fan, 2nd Lead Editor, Billionare wannabe.

Batman Breakdown #3: Mr. Freeze

With the release of the Batman: Arkham Origins: Heart of Ice fresh in our minds I thought it was only appropriate to turn the Batman Breakdown focus onto the main villain of this latest piece of gaming DLC. That’s right today we take a look at one of the Dark Knight’s most complex and tragic villains, Mr. Freeze. Hopefully by the end of this article you’ll have discovered why even though he’s a bad guy, he’s still super chill.

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Celebrating Bill Finger: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

This year, marks 75 years of Batman, but today, February 8th 2014, would have been the 100th birthday of the man who shaped the majority of the first 25 years of Batman lore. Bill Finger, the oft-forgot writer of not only the first issue of Batman, but also the first appearance of The Joker, The Riddler, Catwoman, Scarecrow and Calendar Ma, has been dead for almost 40 years, and still so rarely recognized for his immense contributions to the Bat-mythos. Finger wrote over 1000 issues of both Batman and Detective Comics over his 25 year run with National Comics (which would later re-brand as DC) most notably of all Detective Comics #27.

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New “Gotham” TV Show May Have some Kevin Smith/ Paul Dini Input in Tonal shift

Fox Chairman Kevin Reilly said at a TCA Media Event,”The show will track Bruce from a child (around 12 years old) until he puts on a cape (in the finale).” He’s also called the show something of an “operatic soap,” similar to Smallville. He also had mention of Catwoman, The Riddler and The Penguin. All this comes only weeks after an episode of noted writer/director Kevin Smith’s podcast “Fatman on Batman” where the author of Widening Gyre, and Cacophony (as well as the upcoming Batman: Bellicosity) talked at length with Batman: TAS’s Paul Dini about a version of the Gotham TV show that centred around Bruce Wayne’s childhood instead of Commissioner Gordon’s early career.

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