Elseworlds: The Female Two-Faces! Jenna Clark from DARK KNIGHT DYNASTY and Darcy Dent from CATWOMAN

[about_faces]

Someone (forgive me for forgetting who or where, but the baby stole my brain... was it Yaseen101, maybe?) was wondering if there has ever been a female Two-Face.

Appropriately enough, there have actually been two! Naturally, they both appeared in Elseworlds stories, the first in 1998 and the second in 1999, so I guess there was just something in the air

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[psychopathicus]

Personally, I actually kinda like most of Balent's artwork - he's got a very stylish sense of design, when he takes a little time to work on it. It's a shame he can't get over the urge to insert gratuitous cheesecake into EVERY SINGLE THING HE DOES. I think if he could just disconnect his libido from his drawing hand for a while, he might actually be able to do some pretty cool stuff.
(Incidentally, I do like how his Two-Face appears to have half of a silver dollar adorning her choker on the 'good' side. It's a nice continuity nod, even if this particular character appears to have nothing to do with the element of chance the coin represents.)
The idea of a female Two-Face actually makes a good deal of sense, in a way. Given the rather obsessive focus on feminine beauty in modern-day culture, I can actually buy a beautiful woman going crazy from a disfigured face more than I can a handsome man. It's a double standard, yes, but hey - appropriate, no?
I'm presuming that Scarecrone's scarred face while in character is meant to be some sort of psychic stigmata or the like, representative of her insecurity or guilt or self-loathing or... something.
And call me crazy, but I actually kinda like Brooks. I wish Moench and Balent had had the freedom to just make her a straight-out lesbian, as they clearly both desperately wanted to, instead of just loading her with innuendo. A saucy lesbian version of Alfred who burns with unrequited love for her employer? I would read the heck out of that one.

[about_faces]

I only really liked Balent's work back in the first dozen or so issues of Catwoman (which Henchgirl is currently reviewing, starting with these two posts), which was when he was inked by the great Dick Giordano. But then, Giordano was one of those inkers who made everyone look better. Strange, then, that he was only a serviceable penciler.

Given the rather obsessive focus on feminine beauty in modern-day culture, I can actually buy a beautiful woman going crazy from a disfigured face more than I can a handsome man. It's a double standard, yes, but hey - appropriate, no?

Which, I think, is what gave rise to the Calendar Girl episode of The New Batman Adventures. Wait, you're still catching up with TAS, right? That one's in season four, which is Henchgirl's favorite season and, while it's my least favorite, it's still a pretty damn great episode. She's kind of a mix between Calendar Man, Black Mask, Circe (not the WW villain, the Black Mask character), and female Two-Face here.

I'm presuming that Scarecrone's scarred face while in character is meant to be some sort of psychic stigmata or the like, representative of her insecurity or guilt or self-loathing or... something.

That sounds about as good a theory as anything.

[psychopathicus]

Well, I can hardly call myself an authority on the man's work - I've only seen bits and pieces of it here and there. Still, out of morbid curiosity I took a look at a few issues of 'Tarot' I found available for download, and to my surprise I actually found myself impressed by the visuals in certain sequences. The actual CONTENT was still pretty porny, mind you, and I certainly wouldn't go so far as to recommend the book (clearly it HAS an audience, but I'll be damned if I know who) but the man can certainly draw when he's not just going 'dur-hur, I likes der boobies'.
Yeah, still catching up - I've heard of the episode, though. Actually, I have a pretty good theoretical knowledge of the series in general, but theory is all it is so far - nothing compares to actual experience.