Freeze breaks out of Arkham on Christmas Eve and uses an invention to start a blizzard. But it is my favorite of the stories, and the best, in my opinion. Freeze story, “White Christmas,” because it was out of date with the continuity of the new animated episodes. One final story from Dini comes from 1994’s outstanding “Batman Adventures Holiday Special.” Three of the four stories from that special were adapted into the “Holiday Knights” episode of the second wave of Batman episodes, and the one story that wasn’t was the Mr. “White Christmas” (“Batman Adventures Holiday Special,” 1994) RELATED: Preview ‘Archie Meets Batman ’66’ #2, out Aug. Mark Buckingham’s art is stellar, and a sequence of Nora teaching Victor how to skate makes the reader understand why Freeze loved Nora enough to become a supervillain over her loss. With room to breathe, Dini is able to put in more details, and to really flesh out Victor and Nora Fries. But the flashbacks to Freeze’s origin are what makes this a comic to read. Freeze” transfers the origin from the animated series to comics, written by Paul Dini, who also wrote “Heart of Ice.” The main story features Freeze looking to enact his revenge on Batman for his part in the loss of Nora. While timed to tie into one of Freeze’s less stellar appearance’s, 1997’s “Batman & Robin” film, “Batman: Mr. Freeze’s origin over watching it, this one-shot is an excellent place to start. RELATED: Tom King gives the scoop on DC’s ‘Heroes in Crisis’ It was so strong an episode it won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program, and Mr. The episode is tightly written, and heartbreaking, with some of the best imagery in the series, and the armor design by Mike Mignola is the standard by which all other Freeze armor is measured against. Freeze became a tragic villain, one who lost his wife, Nora, to corporate greed and who seeks revenge, despite claiming he has no emotion. And when “Heart of Ice” aired, Freeze was dead in the comics, killed by the Joker for stealing Joker’s gang while the Clown Prince of Crime was in Arkham.īut with “Heart of Ice,” everything changed. Zero and only was known for appearing on the Adam West “Batman” TV series, where he got his new and improved name, and some of the later “Super Friends” cartoons in some pretty cool armor. Heck, it shows how unimportant he was that he debuted with the name of Mr. He was a criminal scientist who had been accidentally exposed to his chemical experiment and couldn’t survive outside of freezing temperatures. Freeze stories would be complete without his debut on “Batman: The Animated Series.” Before B:TAS, Freeze was just another generic, cold-themed DC villain, like Captain Cold or Killer Frost. “Heart of Ice” (Batman: The Animated Series, 1992) Freeze is the most recent Bat-villain to appear in Tom King’s tour-de-force run on “Batman.” This week marked the end of the “Cold Days” arc with artist Lee Weeks, so if you’re hankering for more of Victor Fries, here are four other stories you should read (or watch). By MATTHEW LAZORWITZ, WMQ Comics contributor
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