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Comparing a TV show to a movie might feel like comparing a flightless bird to a clown, but alas, they’re from the same tree—a tree where a bat with a really deep voice hangs. The Penguin is HBO’s newest show from the world of Batman/DC Comics, and it will premiere next week. The series takes place after the events of Matt Reeves’s The Batman from 2022, the one where Rob Patz is all hot in it, and follows Coin Farrell as Oswald “Oz” Cobb aka the Penguin. It arrives just a few short weeks before Joker: Folie á Deux premieres in theaters, the one where Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga sing (while being all… scary.) While both projects are different entertainment mediums (a movie and a TV show), they…