Two-Face vs. a Werewolf. Okay, then!

[about_faces]

I was all ready to finally write about the Two-Face story from Batman 80-Page Giant 2010 when I remembered that the author, Brad Desnoyer, had actually written *another* Harvey short story for another anthology: THE 2008 DC UNIVERSE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL.

You know... the story where Harvey fights a werewolf. Yeah, that one

Comments

[thehefner]

I don't think I want to see Thanksgiving dinner in Arkham. Especially not if Zsasz is carving the turkey.

That's a very ambitious theoretical question. I'd sooner go for Hamill voicing all Jokers leading to better stories, but only if he had a director to hone and guide him through the different Jokers of different eras. Hamill is a good enough actor to pull each off. So I'd be hard pressed to think of any Joker stories that would actually suffer from Hamill's voice, as long as he really put everything into it.

Bolland, on the other hand, draws in the style of only Bolland. And while he is a god (or was, back when he relied on pen and ink more than computers, and was thus incredibly slow), there's no way he could improve on the work of men like Dick Sprang, Neal Adams, and Marshall Rogers. No way in hell. That said, I'd kill to see Bolland redraw the Dini Christmas issue with Robin, because I really dislike Don Kramer's artwork. A lot. A lot a lot a lot. And it's the one thing I really dislike about an otherwise-near-perfect story. Throw Bolland in there, and you have an issue that you'd want framed.

[lego_joker]

Speaking of Joker, I found this little piece by Dustin Nguyen:

[[http://www.comicvine.com/joker/29-1702/all-images/108-212640/joker_streets_of_gotham_19_by_duss005_d30t8qs/105-1466678/]]

AKA "What would happen if the Joker were hired to play Severus Snape?"

[lego_joker]

Whoops, I meant:

http://www.comicvine.com/joker/29-1702/all-images/108-212640/joker_streets_of_gotham_19_by_duss005_d30t8qs/105-1466678/

[thehefner]

That piece fascinates me. I love Nguyen's art, and I really like that piece, but it just doesn't feel like the Joker to me. Really, if Nguyen has any characters that I think he simply can't capture, it's the Joker. He's pretty brilliant with most everyone else, but there's something about Mr. J that just seems to elude him.

My god, though, I'd pay good money to read an entire Two-Face story painted by him.

[lego_joker]

Minimalism just doesn't seem a style suited for the Joker. All the best Joker artists (Adams, Rogers, Bolland, Nolan, even Timm) either heap on the details, throw in a ton of exaggeration, or both.