Sofia's arc in The Penguin is incredibly different from what Batman comic readers know of the Falcone family. Appearing in two series by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale titled Batman: The Long Halloween (1996) and Batman: Dark Victory (1999), the Falcone clan's war with the Maronis plays out on a much larger scale.

It seems impossible, but HBO’s excellent The Batman spin-off series, The Penguin, keeps getting better. Last week, we watched Cristin Milioti put on a masterclass as Sofia Falcone, learning how the scorned woman went from mafia princess to Arkham inmate to de facto head of the Falcone crime family after killing them all in one fell swoop.

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While Matt Reeves's 2022 film The Batman first established this new version of Gotham City—and a couple of the primary heroes (Robert Pattinson's Batman) and villains (Paul Dano's Riddler) residing in it—it's been HBO's limited series The Penguin that's painted a detailed,