As revealed during the Jim Lee & Friends panel in San Diego yesterday, DC has released preview pages and variant covers for The Riddler: Year One, the upcoming Black Label project by actor Paul Dano and artist Stevan Subic.
According to DC, “Dano’s story provides an in-depth look at how the unknown forensic accountant Edward Nashton evolved into the menace known as the Riddler and came so close to bringing down the entire city.” Dano of course played the character in The Batman.
Let’s take a look …
And here’s the solicitation info for the first issue, which DC released yesterday:
THE RIDDLER: YEAR ONE #1
Written by PAUL DANO
Art by STEVAN SUBIC
Covers by BILL SIENKIEWICZ
Variant covers by JIM LEE and STEVAN SUBIC
1:25 variant cover by GREG RUTH
1:50 variant cover by TULA LOTAY
1:100 variant cover by KOUTA SASAI
1:250 variant cover by JIM LEE
$4.99 US | 32 pages | 1 of 6 | (All covers card stock)
ON SALE 10/25/22
As depicted in Matt Reeves’s hit movie The Batman, the Riddler wasn’t simply an amusing eccentric with an affinity for wordplay and baffling clues, but as terrifying a villain as any in the annals of the Dark Knight. Here you can see Edward Nashton evolve into the menace known as the Riddler. How did an unknown forensic accountant uncover the dark secrets of Gotham’s underworld and come so close to bringing down the entire city? This six-issue miniseries is an immediate prequel to The Batman—the detailed, disturbing, and at times shocking story of a man with nothing to lose.
Artist Stevan Subic makes his American comics debut, including a variant cover that is the first of six interlocking covers. This collaboration with Dano delivers a shadowy and gritty tale of a society’s forgotten man who refuses to go unnoticed any longer. Subic’s recent Conan the Cimmerian for French publisher Glénat has brought him great acclaim in Europe, and he’s about to break out globally with a Batman series unlike any you’ve seen before.
Look for the first issue of six on Oct. 25.