I’m not a big fan of riddles. I’ve never been good at them. I’m the same with mysteries. I’d much rather take things by face value and not try to find the “solution”. But problems I love to solve – I love putting furniture together with those hard to read directions. I didn’t even read the directions to put my bed together. I just put the like items into piles and started putting it together. It helped that I knew what I bed looks like. I also know every failure leads to success.

Riddles

“A RIDDLE FOR ROBIN: Why is an unmasked super-hero like a wonton? Answer: They’re both “in the soup” - Fortune Cookie to Robin from the Riddler’s Daughter*

Some superheroes want to atone the evil their parents create. Duela Dent is such just a hero. Duela’s father, Harvey Dent the notorious Two-Face, had nothing to do with Duela because she was not a twin. Duela used her father’s split personality as an idea to create a superhero. She kept everyone guessing who she was by becoming the Joker’s Daughter, Riddler’s Daughter, Scarecrow’s Daughter, Catwoman’s Daughter, Penguin’s Daughter, Harlequin and Card Queen. But she never called herself Two-Face’s Daughter.

Riddles are jokes and puns that we have to figure out. Another word for riddles is mysteries. We all have our mysteries. We all try to solve the mysteries as well. They are like riddles that drive us CRAZY. Sometimes especially with disaster or just accidents we never know “Why” this happens and it becomes a mystery. We never know why a disaster happens – it just does. Some religions are based on the “Great Mystery.” We ask ourselves do we need an answer or solution. Does the mystery – does the riddle have an answer? Sometimes we can honestly say, “No” and we can just move forward in our lives.

Duela Dent (aka: Joker’s Daughter, Riddler’s Daughter, Scarecrow’s Daughter, Catwoman’s Daughter, Penguin’s Daughter, Harlequin and Card Queen)
First Appearance: Batman Family #6 (November 1976)

Creators: Bob Rozakis (writer & artist)

* Batman Family #9, February 1977