IMPOSTORAMA: The Fake Two-Faces! No. 6: Gracchus
The most recent Impostor Two-Face might also be the dumbest. Not surprising, as he's written by Denny O'Neil: master of the shallow strawman villain, at least from his run on The Question.
Don't get me wrong: when Denny's good, he's bloody amazing. His out-of-print Ra's al Ghul origin Birth of the Demon is one of the greatest Batman comics ever ( Read more... )
Don't get me wrong: when Denny's good, he's bloody amazing. His out-of-print Ra's al Ghul origin Birth of the Demon is one of the greatest Batman comics ever ( Read more... )
"You've been clever, Riddler, but you were never this... barbaric. Killing all these people, almost murdering that baby... something's happened to you. This voice, is it you or something using you?"
"We've always had a kind of... sporting relationship. I'd always thought we respected each other. Listen to me..."
The story portrays possessed!Riddler as a bloodthirsty individual, yes, but it also suggests that something is deeply, deeply wrong; instead of reveling in the violence, it portrays it as something genuinely abhorrent and damaging to Riddler's character.
I've always held DK/DC to be one of the few examples of horror in Batman done right; both the writing and the art are wonderfully surreal - there's just no other way to describe it. The faded colors, the abundance of shadows, how every character looks normal... too normal... something evil is afoot, but there's no telling what.
Dwyer + Janke = Pure Happy-Making.
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