"Two-Face: Year One," The Hefner Cut

[about_faces]

Two-Face: Year One was a mess.

I don't know any other way to describe the most recent retelling of Harvey's origin, released to coincide with the release of The Dark Knight. The odds were against it from the start, as the main problem with retelling origins is that you've got to interest people in reading a story they already know, or at least

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[ext_262094]

I also noticed that Two-Face is wearing a glove to cover his scarred hand, what's up with that?

[thehefner]

He was wearing the glove in Long Halloween as well, since pretty much the entire costume is copied. It's been rather fashionable in recent years to have him wear a gloved on his scarred hand.

[ext_262094]

Well in Long Halloween, Harvey's hand when he became Two-Face was never scarred.

[thehefner]

I don't recall if we ever saw his hand ungloved, so for all we know, it was scarred when he reached for his burning face (which we did see him do).

[ext_262094]

Correction buddy, In Long Halloween, after Maroni hurls the acid at Harvey, hideously disfiguring half of his face. He was rushed to the hospital but once there, he stabs a doctor and escapes. Harvey wearing the clothes he had before and his left hand was never scarred has been hiding out in Gotham’s sewers for a month, and crosses paths with Solomon Grundy. At first Grundy attacks him, but when Dent begins reciting the nursery rhyme from which Grundy received his name, he stops and calms down.

[thehefner]

I went to check those issues, and it's still not conclusive. We see the top of his left hand only once, in that two-page spread where he meets Grundy, but we have no indication of is his palm was scarred from the acid. That's the most we ever see of his left hand after the acid, and in that panel where he's screaming, he's definitely grabbing onto his burning face.

Not that any of this really matters, mind you. :)

[ext_262094]

Trust me it's not, I should know I'm an expert.