gotham

Some production stills from Fox's new Batman prequel series Gotham were leaked online depicting a young Detective Gordon and The Penguin. It seems like all my superhero franchises are getting younger and younger.

The Gotham season 2 finale left us all wondering whether or not that was Jerome we heard cackling away in the background....it turns out the fans with the astute ears out there weren't too far off the mark.

"[The laugh] was really to keep [the Joker] alive, to keep Jerome and that threat of the Joker alive. We wanted to make sure fans don't feel that we're completely done with [the mythology of the Joker] because we are 100 percent, absolutely not," he said. "[But,] it's not going to be something we delve into right way at the top of the season," Woodruff explained.

In September, Fox gave the go-ahead on a series set in the Batman universe called Gotham. Focused on the career of Jim Gordon before he became the Commissioner of Police, Gotham will take place during Bruce Wayne's youth and will portray the origins of some of Batman's most famous villains.

We're guessing to see the stories of The Joker, The Riddler, Penguin and maybe Catwoman. We'll just have to wait to see.