Fuelling the unstop­pable loco­mo­tive of Dark Knight hype, Chris­t­ian Bale has been speak­ing with Parade about his roles as Batman/Bruce Wayne.

The choice quote comes from Bale’s enthu­si­as­tic talk of a third movie:

“What Bat­man is all about is a double-sided edge; there’s a dual­ity to this char­ac­ter, which makes him still inter­est­ing to play in the sequel — I hope in a third. And I’m work­ing with peo­ple who are going to inspire but also demand that I come up with some­thing new. I do love the unknown, but there’s more to inves­ti­gate in Bruce Wayne and Batman.”

Rolling Stone’s Peter Tra­vers has posted his review of The Dark Knight for us to dis­sect and envy; the first of the big pub­li­ca­tions to give their opin­ion on our much antic­i­pated sequel.

Describ­ing The Dark Knight as a thun­der­bolt that rips through a sum­mer of bland movies, Tra­vers heaps praise on the mad-crazy-blazing bril­liant Heath Ledger as The Joker. I’ve picked out the part I love the most:

The haunt­ing and vision­ary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imag­i­na­tion. It’s full of sur­prises you don’t see com­ing. And just try to get it out of your dreams

Once again the full review comes after the break. We’ve already posted an unof­fi­cial review from a well known Spaced character.

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The Joker sent out another round of pic­ture mes­sages to the lucky hold­ers of the prize phones,

To find the next sideshow, share these with your fel­low goons. There’s no sub­sti­tu­tion for fun.

The pic­tures looked like this and were labelled 1A, 3B, etc. to form a larger grid:

In this grid there are 21 dis­tinct shapes, each of which can be assigned a let­ter. From this pat­tern of 21 let­ters, a sub­sti­tu­tion cypher (as hinted in the text mes­sage) can be applied to reveal the message:

Color me impressed. Just use the sec­ond let­ter of the fourth word to the right of each cir­cled five-letter word to find out where to go from here

This applies to the new Ha Ha Ha Times, reveal­ing “Red Bal­loons” and hence:

WhySoSe​ri​ous​.com/​R​e​d​B​a​l​l​o​ons

This presents us with another flash game with the appar­ent aim of inflat­ing and burst­ing bal­loons to get points. At a cer­tain point of infla­tion the clown eyes turn blue — when they are all blue a ticket pops out which links to “Inept Lack­eys”.

Hired goons are so unre­li­able these days. That’s why I only employ the ones that grad­u­ated from the top of their class at Clown Col­lege (and being opera-lovers didn’t hurt, either). But Maroni’s got his hands full with inept lack­eys like lit­tle Ste­vie and Romeo, Romeo, where­fore art thou, Romeo? I’ll tell you where they are: sit­tin’ pretty with a smile on their face. They tried to resched­ule their pick up ser­vice at Pasquale’s, but things didn’t go accord­ing to plan.

HAHAHAHA.

Pasquale’s has a tele­phone num­ber for which the pass­code is “Verdi” (83734).

Thanks for the heads up Pierre!

We’ve been await­ing this update since the arrival of the third issue of The Gotham Times, now The Ha Ha Ha times has updated to reveal a defaced and dis­graced Gotham Times edi­tions with the tra­di­tional red Joker scrawl­ings, blotches, clip­pings and post-its.

Thanks Csam Cram!

AICN have posted a review of The Dark Knight, where the movie is com­pared to The God­fa­ther 2 and Heat whilst also sug­gest­ing that Heath Ledger should get an Oscar nod from the Academy.

This review con­tains spoil­ers — full arti­cle included after the break.
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Bryan has sent in a new viral web­site, the bistro of the fella that was inter­viewed in Gotham Tonight #2:

Pasquale’s Bistro
www​.pasquales​bistro​.com

TV Spot #6

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TV Spot #9

Com­cast Chicago TDK Featurette

Thanks Csam Cram

Thanks to every­one that sent this in!

There’s also some new Gotham Knight footage at IGN (thanks again Csam).

The sec­ond episode of Gotham Tonight is online at the Gotham City News net­work. You can still catch the first episode in their archive

Gotham Tonight looks at the tragic, mys­te­ri­ous, and flam­boy­ant life of bil­lion­aire play­boy Bruce Wayne. Born into enor­mous wealth, Bruce’s life changed for­ever when he wit­nessed the shoot­ing deaths of his par­ents in down­town Gotham.

GCN’s pre­mier news pro­gram looks at Bruce’s life then, and now. Gotham Tonight gets exclu­sive com­ment from Dis­trict Attor­ney Har­vey Dent, who’s rumored to be dat­ing Bruce’s old friend Rachel Dawes. And GT also exam­ines the ascent of Bruce Wayne to CEO of Wayne Enter­prises — what is the eco­nomic giant plan­ning now?

Watch it on Com­cast Chan­nel One or right here at GCN.

At the end of this edi­tion, two more episodes were con­firmed for the upcom­ing weeks, one set to pro­file our old friend, Jim Gordon.