thehefner | Riddle Me Magic! Part One of Two

angrylemur came down here to visit for the week. There was much hot geekery fun to be had, between SPX, me subjecting her to many films, her subjecting me to many indie bands, home-cooked gourmet meals, and, um, other stuff, all of which culminated yesterday with... well...

If you think the pairing of the Riddler and Zatanna is a bit odd, all I can say is that Paul Dini inspired me with both characters' current neato depictions in DETECTIVE COMICS recently. And besides, they're the only hero/villain pairing who would do battle with jazzhands. You know this to be true.

So yes, ladies and gentlemen. With the generous costume help of

heleneotroy and

spacechild, we give you our Victorian/Steampunkish takes on the Riddler and Zatanna.

The problem with doing costume shoots like this is that you always come up with fifteen great ideas after the shoot is finished. For example, we realized that we should have had some magical props for Zatanna: some sparkles, stuffed bunnies, roses, even a wand though she never uses wands. And so, bereft of magic and faced with a cunning foe, Zatanna is forced to do like any great performer and improvise.

Namely, beat the crap out of the Riddler with his own cane. It may not be elegant, but it's effective.

Oh, and one more I'd missed the first time around:

That's it for our outerwear. But as with the Joker/Harley shoot, we thought it'd be a good idea to have some alternate inside wear for R&Z. Nothing nearly as NSFW like last time, I assure you. For the sake of you guys, I'll give 'em their own post.

Furthermore, I've been forced to temporarily change the format of my own LJ to this current Hot-Topic-tasting, since the previous setting cut off the larger photos. Laaaame. One of these days, I'm gonna need to figure out how to customize my LJ page with Hefner Monologues pictures and stuff, make it truly worthy of being The Hefner's Blog.