Letters to Rogues Gallery #3

why thank you borize.

It is a pretty cool cover, but--- and I could be wrong here, not being the world's biggest Batman fan--- but isn't Zsasz spelled incorrectly on the cover...?

I don't recognize the writers's name on this, but it looks like an interesting issue--- looking forward to reading this.

Well, I'm glad that I've read the Doll's House or I might have been confused. As it was, the bits I enjoyed most of the story were the bits that didn't tie in with scenes from that story. Anyway, I thought the writing itself was great and liked the ending.

I noticed that Zsasz was spelt Zsaz throughtout the story as on the cover, so I'm still trying to work out if you spelt it that way deliberately just to set it apart from regular DC2 continuity (I notice that you used the same spelling of his name as the Batman Begins movie used).

I read this tale with fresh eyes, having never ever reading his first appearance and all. Never reading about him the regular DC continuity. The beginning of the story was very interesting and funny with the chat with Cort. and Mista Jay. Loved it!!! The cover was impressive. I gave it four out of five stars because I really don't know the character.

Mischief

I loved the cover, and honestly I completley missed the spelling mistake in the story. (The sad thing is I checked the spelling in a couple of comics I have with Zsasz in them, and the instruction manual to the Batman Begins ps2 game. I think that's what messed me up spelling it.) The parts simillar to The Doll House were meant to be a tribute to the original story by Neil Gaiman. I did my best to describe those scenes from a different perspective, and avoided any direct imitations of the actual story. Some parts, like Nimrod being the one to organize the convention seemed to make sense since his sole existence was as the organizer of the convention in the original story The Doll's House. I thought about using the original Bogeyman from Swamp Thing, but thought it would work best if some of the "collectors" came in after the climax, and the imposter was the best way to get them out of the building. This was my first story on DC2, and I'm deeply sorry if some of it came off as being lifted from Dolls House. Those scenes were meant to be a homage, nothing more. Certain parts like with the numbers and Bogeyman were part of the character, and I didn't want to change the character by not including something with the numbers.

Oh, and the title is freakin awesome! Thanks to Starlord, and Mark, and everyone that's posted feedback on the story. Oh, and Susie for introducing me to this great site.

Ugh, I meant the cover, not the title sorry about that.

Just wait till next months Rogues Gallery then.

Absolutely Terrible...

I also read the Doll's House. So I was expecing Sandman to show up.....ah well.

It creeped me out, which was the effect it was supposed to achieve.

Agreed on the subdued Joker, and how Joker recognized him...

Trippy stuff. I like the "justified killing" angle that Z has (I'll just call him Z. I'm confused on how to spell his name.) I've never read anything with him, but I still think it's interesting.

-UDC

Good, but I felt like I was missing something throughout the story. Now seeing all these references to "A Doll's House" here in the lettercol, I know what that something was. It was well-written though, I just wish I knew the story this was sort-of based on. And am I interpreting this wrong, or is the Corinthian supposed to be an aspect of Death?

Bonus points for the joke -- I haven't heard that one in a long time, my man.

He's not really an avatar; more of an ideal, he represents the evil inside all of mankind. In the dreaming (A reality composed of peoples dreams, when anyone goes to sleep, they go to the dream realm) he was one of the most powerful nightmares. His role was basically to help people understand the darkness inside of them, and help shape their concious lives. This could be anything from them wanting to prevent the darkness in themselves, or others from hurting people. (Someone like Batman) Or, they could wind up embracing what Corinithian showed them and become a killer. (Um, anyone that was in the story lol) When Morpheus (Sandman) was imprisoned, he left the dreaming in the early 20's and learned how to kill. Since then in Vertigo continuity he never returned to the dreaming until Morpheus was freed, but instead travelled the world and became a serial killer. The way I wrote it though, is that he comes and goes between reality and the dreaming still carrying out his function, in and out of the dreaming.

I probably should have went into more detail about what Corinthian is in the story. But I wanted to have a level of mystery within the character for this issue. I probably should have mentioned the dreaming more though, and with a bit more clarity. (The biggest reference I think was when Joker asked if Corinthian could stop visiting him when he's asleep, and that was pretty vague...)

Yeah, I always wondered about that... I'm thinking it might have been a shout out to one of the writers. I never read any of The Q's Charlton stuff so I don't know if Szazs was his name originally, or if DC made the switch. If they did, it could have been planned for Vic Z, and Vic S to eventually cross paths and find out a relation before Q's series was cancelled. Or if it was that way when he was in Charlton, it was probably a tribute... Or theres some crazy ass multiverse stuff going down.... So many questions, so little answers.

True, who's the writer for Question?