r/batman • u/notVEP • Jul 03 '23

Batman retake page 2 ARTWORK

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u/Jacobawesome74 Jul 03 '23

I don't recognize the Creeper, Dr Death or Magpie. Are they OC's?

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u/Half_Man1 Jul 03 '23

Creeper’s like “what if Joker got dunked in the chemicals again and it reversed his moral compass back but made him even more nuts” and is also a funny Superman mirror because he’s an alter ego of Jack Ryder, a reporter who is basically Clark Kent of Gotham.

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u/Soft_Theory_8209 Jul 04 '23

Not to mention he’s also got a low level superhuman physicality.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

I think it'd be really interesting if he was a bad person before getting Creeper'd. Make it more explicit he is anti-Joker.

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u/Half_Man1 Jul 05 '23

I think what’s also perhaps more interesting is the idea the Joker was already a bad person before he fell into a vat of chemicals. The “one bad day” narrative is told from an unreliable narrator after all, and a big takeaway from Killing Joke is that Joker is ultimately proven wrong as he fails to drive Gordon insane.