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@a-doodling-demon

I talk very rarely. AroAce

To celebrate Valentines, here is one of our favorite vainglorious couples from Batman -  Penguin and Riddler - and their valentines cards throughout the decades (sorry for the quality but some of these are hard to find)

(from top to bottom)

National Periodical Batman Valentines (1966)

Superfriends Action Valentine Playbook (1980s)

Batman the Animated Series Valentines (1992)

Batman the Animated Series Valentines Kit ( 1992)

The Adventures of Batman and Robin Valentines (1996)

(top three sets are from the delightful Andertoons site which have ripped these for everyone!)

Surprisingly there are no Valentines card tie-ins from Batman Forever or (to a lesser extent) Batman Returns.

Gotham/Nygmobblepot/ Riddlebird headcanon:

The Iceberg lounge has a cocktail list a mile long and it is always growing. It’s not your average cocktails though, they are Gotham themed and can only be found at the Iceberg.

The reason is that Oswald, being the emotional and grudge holding little bird he is, names cocktails after members of all the well known citizens of Gotham and how they taste reflects on how he feels about them. The disgusting sounding and tasting mix called ‘Bat guano’ being an example.

There are new cocktails every week and it said that the best way to find out the state of the Gotham underworld is to go and try all the drinks on the Iceberg’s What’s New menu. 

The amount of green Riddler themed drinks is alarming and constantly growing. It ranges from ‘E.Nygma wrapped in a daydream’, a delicious and addictive favourite, to the vomit inducing ‘Death at the dockside.’ This particular cocktail is treated the way some people treat extremely hot curries, a way to prove how tough you are. Legend has it that even Batman isn’t tough enough to drink a whole ‘Dockside’ without throwing up.

Bonus: When Oswald is particularly pissed off with someone he will give the bar staff orders to only serve that person the most disgusting drink belonging to their namesake. The patrons of the Iceberg have lost count of how many times Riddler, out of shear stubbornness, has attempted to force down ‘Dockside’ after ‘Dockside’ just to show Oswald up only to end up projectile vomiting and passing out in the toilets a few minutes later.

I’m sure this whole exchange (from Detective Comics #824) has been posted before, but I can only find individual panels in my tag so here’s the whole thing: can Paul Dini always write these two, please? I love how well they know each other here (”your propensity for driving a hard bargain”, “I know that restless tone of voice”)

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there’s something so satisfying about umbrellas that just immediately pop open when you press a button.. so suave.. so sexy.. watch me open my umbrella and shield myself from the rain in one swift movement and tell me that’s not smooth. not hot. you can’t. because it was SO sexy

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i’m never hotter than when i just pop open my umbrella and casually swing it to my shoulder. that’s peak me baby. never gonna be any cooler than that