The Penguin takes the ultimate revenge on the smallest perceived slight and at the same time give the ultimate reward to the smallest kindness. To take a joke villain like the Penguin and make him scary as hell.
Greg Hurwitz has done what I thought was pretty much impossible. It may sound like I hated this, but it was really just one of those books that was good, but hard to read.Īnd I never thought I'd say that about a comic with Penguin as the title character. Well, he loved his mother, but that's about it! Nobody as crazy as the Penguin could ever really love another person. And as far as finding True Love? It didn't seem that way to me. Occasionally, even the worst people will do something kind for someone they like. He certainly wasn't what I would consider an anti-hero unless you think that bad people never ever do anything nice.
I know the blurb says something about him possibly being considered an anti-hero and maybe finding true love, but I just didn't see that at all. OhMyGod! It burns! I can't un-see that! ACK! There's this one panel where it looks like she puts her tongue in his ear when he's a little kid.to thank him for something he made for her! Maybe being a mom myself made that whole relationship seem even ickier, but I doubt it. Probably the most disturbing thing in the entire book was the incestuous undertones between Cobblepot and his mother. He was a total psychopath when it came to dealing with people who he perceived had wronged him. I've honestly never thought of the Penguin as a dangerous villain, but this comic changed my mind. I mean, on one hand, I felt bad for little Oswald, but at the same time, he was a horrifyingly creepy kid. This was really a great Penguin story, but it was so sad!
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