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Don't Worry, Penguin Fans…. (Batman #43 SPOILERS)

Published Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:30:23 -0500

This is the Penguin.

And this is the Penguin.

From yesterday's Batman #43.

Whether he'll stay dead — we don't, after all, see him breathe his last here — is anyone's guess, but in comic art shorthand, that bloody monocle certainly suggests he's a goner.

But previously, Scott Snyder had told CBR,

No, no. We would never do in a major character like The Penguin like that in our run. We're not very subtractive. We haven't really offed anybody, even Bruce Wayne. The story was never really about Bruce's death — it was more about Batman's death and what would happen if Bruce came back pre-the specter of Batman. Who would he be? Knowing that was a story that I'd never seen before and pairing it with Jim Gordon, I thought we could double-down on the newness of it in a way that would really make it feel like unexplored territory.

As for The Penguin, he comes back. I just wrote a scene with him and Duke Thomas. Duke Thomas really follows that plotline. What is Bloom's history with Penguin? Why would he be the only villain that he approaches? How does he know him? And Duke ends up sneaking into the re-invented Iceberg Lounge and winds up dealing with more criminals than he can handle. His story is a lot of fun.

So don't worry Penguin fans. He will live to flap another day,

Maybe he'll take one of Mr Bloom's seeds?

Cue YouTube…

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqtCUFhGOE[/youtube]

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