aidanphantom's Joker's Asylum: Penguin #1 - He Who Laughs Last...! review

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    Penguin bites back

    The second comic in the series focuses on one of the more obscure villains in the Batman comics, Oswald Cobblepot or as he better known The Penguin. It deals with The Penguin’s relationship with women, sounds dull doesn’t it? Of course it does sound dull but it’s not, it packs a punch and it more violent than the other stories believe it or not. The style is very visceral and straight edged with flairs of darkness added in to emphasis the darker psychological aspects of Penguin’s personality. It may not be the best of them but it definitely is an impressive effort on the artists/writers part.

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