Yea! I finally got a good block of time to sit back and read the entirety of your story! It was very well written, interesting take on Dee and Eddie's relationship. Very sad watching the brain cancer take him and the effect it held on the two. Thanks for a great read! =D

Just starting to read this, and I'm loving it so far! I got to catch some z's but plan to read more on this when I get a chance!

Wow...someone has actually made a good Joker story...and it's a fan fiction no less! *Applause*

I know I already reviewed your story but I just read "Hush" and now I understand your story uch better and you did an excellent job fitting it in as a prequal.

I just read through your whole story. It's very good. The Riddler is one of my fav. characters in Batman. He's one of the most interesting of the villians - a lot of them are kinda boring but not Edward Nigma. I really liked your story and your a very good author.

G. C. Fargazer

Great ending. Leaves me wanting more! I loved the image of Eddie quietly scheming on the airplane.

Bravo! Well done! My main comment on this chapter is commending you on your attention to detail. As someone who reads a lot of "Batman," (though never professes to be an "expert") I really liked how the aftermath of using the pit was explained in such detail.

I liked your use of word selection and vocabulary, too. Be proud of yourself. Thanks.

I love the action heating up. But I am curious to know, since none of Riddler's henchwenches were shwon in Hush, how will you end the story? Will Dee stay with Eddie and be one of those behind the scenes ladies...or will he push her away a la Vesper Fairchild?

In any event, these stories are fantastic reads.

I reviewed a few of your old stories a while back, but I figured that might be getting annoying seeing as you have new ones.

This, your newest story, has been an utterly fascinating read so far. In places I've found it difficult to get through, but only because of the realism of the subject matter, not the quality of writing. Your skills seem to improve with each story you write, and the characters become more and more fleshed-out with each tale.

Chapter 11 made me cry. Seriously. Even though I knew that the Pit would fix Eddie up, that didn't detract from the emotion of the scene. Well done.

I also loved the dramatic little end bit of chapter 13. Eddie is Eddie, after all.

Maybe this was the toughest chapter for me to follow; was this the toughest chapter for you to write? I think you're a great writer and as such, I've been trying to get into your process and approach to your writing.

I will say this didn't follow what I expected in this chapter: some Eddie "insanity," a bit longer of a recovery.

But, this did have a payoff and pulled things off in a (I said it last time) plausible manner. This was kinda like an epiphany of sorts for Eddie and well-depicted. There were good observations throughout. And how many of would redo our lives if given another chance? Thank you.

I love the story so far...
but, your hyptohesis-proving assertions as to how Nigma figured out the Batman seemed too easily.
The Nigma popularized by so many writers over the past fifty years would have surely planted seeds of doubt within his mind--if only to ascertain some perverse kind of truth--and to test himself to see if Wayne really is Batman.
In other words, Nigma would second-guess himself.
Those things aside, you've constructed a wonderfully human story about one of the most tragic of Batman's (and all of comicdom's) Rogues.

I've read 3 chapters, and want to tell you that I'm actually a bit afraid to continue (although I will, eventually). Two reasons I'm reluctant.
First, it's painful to read a blow-by-blow description of a couple's discovery that one of them has brain cancer, and what that means. Of course, you already knew that.
Second, this is making me feel increasingly sorry for Eddie Nigma, which is an unusual feeling. Particularly given that I have fresh in my mind all the trouble he unashamedly caused for Batman and others during the 12-part "Hush" storyline, and it's easier for me to think of him as a totally self-centered, carefree puppetmaster with sociopathic tendencies, then it is for me to think of him as a sufferer who deserves large amounts of pity (even if the suffering was obviously over and done with, via the Lazarus Pit thing, before we saw him onstage in his two scenes in Hush.) I am somewhat reminded of the same shocked/sympathetic feelings I had when I first read Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke," many years ago, in which he offered a heart-wrenching version of what events in the distant past might have occurred to bring about the insanity of the young man who became Batman's most famous enemy, the Joker.

wonderful. i loved eddie's thought process to finally getting to figure who batman is. ever since in the animated version ra's tells bruce how he figured it out since someone had to be dropping loads of cash on the fancy car and stuff i've wondered why others can figure it out, or atleast guess from there. it's great to finally get eddie a smart fella to figure it out. i love dee by the way. she's so well written and realistic. great job.

"...miasma of memory"? NICE line. I put Eddie and Q. in my top 10 favorite comicbook related fic couples. Overall, the chapter itself had a surreal feel for me; perhaps it was due to the visuals of what's Riddler is thinking is what spurning it. This was a very plausible chapter and I liked the acknowledgement of Dr. Hugo Strange. Thank you.

Wow ... that was very powerful and emotional. I think (and I hope you don't take this the wrong way) is that you can take the routine actions and describe them in a very interesting and compelling way; specifically, the opening chapters. This was a death, with warning, if you will. Yet, the compassion between Query and Riddler never diminished. Thank you.