Danny DeVito Is Writing a Comic About Batman’s Penguin

We just got DCdoing its own continuation of the classic 1989 Batman moviein mirthful course , and now the company ’s plump a stride beyond to cater to fans ofthe Burton earned run average of the Dark Knight : one of his great on - filmdom nemesis is teaming up with the publisher for a new anthology special .

Revealed as part of DC Comics ’ woo today ( viaGames Radar ) , November ’s Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant # 1 will mark 80 years since the Penguin first appeared in comic books , but also celebrate the whole host of Batman ’s wider rogues gallery for a particular highlighting some of the most beloved scoundrel in comic story . The creative team for the special include comic strip luminaries like Wes Craig ; writers G. Willow Wilson , Phillip Kennedy Johnson , Joshua Williamson , Nadia Shammas , Stephanie Phillips , Dan Watters , and Mairghread Scott ; and artists Emma Rios , Riccardo Federici , Max Raynor , Max Fiumara , Skylar Patridge , Ariela Kristantina , Khary Randolph , Jill Thompson , Christian Ward , Gabriel Walta , and more .

But perhaps most interesting of all is that Always Sunny iconand all - around pleasure Danny DeVito — who famously play the Penguin in 1992 ’s Batman Returns — will write a story about the villain . The story will be illustrated by Dan Mora , who revealed some concept work for his and DeVito ’s take on Cobblepot on Twitter :

A familiar face returns to Gotham City.

A familiar face returns to Gotham City.Image: Lee Bermejo/DC Comics

I have been working with@DannyDeVito&@Paul_Kaminskiin a new myopic Penguin history for Batman villain ’s eightieth day of remembrance . I’m super excited for everyone to read it.cover by the fable Lee Bermejo@DCComics@thedcnationpic.twitter.com/rbkCKoC7Hz

— Dan Mora ( @Danmora_c)August 13 , 2021

It ’ll be interesting to see how DeVito ’s take on the Penguin hues to his own interpretation in Returns — the aesthetic lineage in Mora ’s design is certainly there — or if he ’ll sample and offer a new spin on the slippery eccentric . Either way of life , it ’s not every day you get to hear that Danny DeVito is writing a comic book escapade , peculiarly for one of the most beloved Batman rogues around , and we ca n’t waitress to see what he come up with .

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