This was truly a compelling Riddler. This might be my favorite take on Edward Nygma since Paul Dini's seminal Detective Comics run back in the mid-2000s.

It was also especially fascinating to see Miller's take on how Tim Burton might have approached the Riddler (and the way he reconciles this version of the character with the Edward Maynard Riddler in San Hamm and Joe Quinones' Batman '89 comics was unexpected and inspired).

This was truly a compelling Riddler.

This might be my favorite take on Edward Nygma since Paul Dini's seminal Detective Comics run back in the mid-2000s.

This was truly a compelling Riddler.

This might be my favorite take on Edward Nygma since Paul Dini's seminal Detective Comics run back in the mid-2000s.

It completes the bridge between the two films and serves as a great prelude to Returns.

It finally explains the new status quo (and I especially like Miller's very clever plot fix for how exactly the Penguin and the Red Triangle Circus Gang got their hands on the Batmobile schematics.)

I don't think any modern superhero comic had be me laugh so hard since Nick Spencer's The Superior Foes of Spider-Man (which, fittingly enough, Lieber also drew).

This was the specific panel that completely broke me. 🤣

I meant "automatically", not "anatomically".

This is what happens when you excitedly write posts about Star Trek when you're half-blind and your glasses are lying over in the living room.

Whoops, heh.

But canonically, only the Section 31 movie has explored that gap so far (at least until KHA).

So it's definitely an untapped narrative driving engine with its own distinct status quo (ex. the Romulans having gone back into isolation post-Tomed Incident).

David R. George III's Serpents Among the Ruins, @kradec.bsky.social's The Art of the Impossible, and @clbennettauthor.bsky.social's The Buried Age are all still personal favorites of mine.

I'm definitely intrigued by @davidmack.bsky.social's suggestion to set potential future audio stories in the Lost Era (the 70 year gap between the end of the TOS films and the commencement of TNG).

I LOVED the old Pocket Books novels from the early 2000s that explored that interim.

I did deeply enjoy this audio series. It was the highlight of this Fall (alongside the new Season of Hazbin Hotel)

I hope the numbers performed well enough (I was subscribing on iTunes and listening on YouTube, heh) to green-light more audio-exclusive Trek stories.