Preview: Harvey Dent hulks out in Jenkins and Finch's THE DARK KNIGHT #2

[about_faces]

So DC has released preview pages for a whole bunch of their new releases tomorrow, including the opening pages of David Finch and Paul Jenkins' The Dark Knight #2. As you may recall, this is a comic that I've been dreading reading for months now, and the follow-up to a nonsensical cliffhanger in issue #1 that resulted in a collective facepalm

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[captaintwinings]

it's hard to convy realism when your blood looks like strawberry jam.

[about_faces]

No, wait... *tastes* It's raspberry! Only one man would DARE give me the raspberry...

[lenaf007]

Yay for Spaceballs reference! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. :D

[ext_3847159]

Hey, don't encourage them to try to be more realistic.

[psychopathicus]

I'm guessing that the IDEA was probably that, as in Dark Knight Returns and that other story where he burns down the homeless shelter, his dual nature had been resolved into one - i.e, he was alllllllll eeeeeeviiil, and hence the Two-Face monicker, which implied at least SOME good, did not apply. I'm not saying it WORKED, but that's probably the effect they were going for. (Personally, if this is going to become a semi-regular plot device, I'd like to see a 'One-Face' that's all GOOD for a change.)
Something I noticed in that last page - Harvey's left eye is all messed up, as is only right and proper for Two-Face, but he's bleeding from BOTH eyes, and his right eye seems perfectly fine. Admittedly, I've never seen someone bleed like that, but you'd think that if he was experiencing that level of massive internal hemorrhaging, BOTH eyes would look all red and swollen and veiny.

[about_faces]

i.e, he was alllllllll eeeeeeviiil

I imagine you waving your arms as you say this for emphasis. Because yeah, I think you're right. Which is something that we've never ever ever ever evernevereverneverEVER seen before! ... Man, I'm mean when I try comics blogging whole exhausted and trying to fight off a fever.

Admittedly, I've never seen someone bleed like that, but you'd think that if he was experiencing that level of massive internal hemorrhaging, BOTH eyes would look all red and swollen and veiny.

Well, again, "realism."

[psychopathicus]

More like I was wiggling my fingers in the 'oooh - spooky!' gesture, but yeah, pretty close.
Oh, yeah, I know just the basic SITUATION isn't realistic, so expecting realism in other aspects isn't, well... realistic. I just can't help but notice these things, especially since they ARE trying for realism with Batman going all bleedy-at-the-mouth.
Fevers suck; hope you feel better soon.

[lenaf007]

My frown can simply not convey how deeply disappointed I was when I saw that opening pic. Now that I've glanced over the other images, all I can do is shake my head.

Are they really trying to get me to buy comics again? Cause if so, I think they're doin' it wrong.

And don't even get me started on their raspberry pink blood as captaintwinings mentioned above...

[about_faces]

Can you believe that DC first leaked these preview pages last week over at Entertainment Weekly online? Just think, people who only know Harvey from THE DARK KNIGHT (whom I assume are the majority of those who read EW) are gonna see those pages, and THAT will be their exposure to comics and comics' Two-Face. Sigh.

Are they really trying to get me to buy comics again? Cause if so, I think they're doin' it wrong.

On the plus side, DC's at least putting out some pretty damn awesome collections. So I can still love and support comics, even if it's very little of what I buy is new.

[lego_joker]

9/10ths of the things that DCnU comics are trying to do, Chuck Dixon did better

[about_faces]

I've been rereading Wizard's first Dark Book, and Dixon mentioned something along the lines that his first page has to have violence. "My readers expect it of me," is what I believe he said. He and Denny O'Neil understood the power of the "hook" image, definitely.

Unfortunately, the storytelling sensibilities of the Dixons, O'Neils, and even Ruckas and Brubakers past (as I consider Rucka and Brubaker to both be the heirs apparent to Dixon) have taken a backseat to the Jeph Loeb and Grant Morrison schools of comics storytelling which put mood and concept over character and story.

Oh, duh! I'd forgotten "Fear for Sale." Honestly, all I ever remember about that story is the Jason Todd gravestone ending. I don't recall ever reading the Conway issue, though. Although the Batman daylight scene sounds familiar. Which issue was it?

[lego_joker]

Batman #305

[ext_262094]

Ok Where in the world did Two-Face get ahold of the Titan stuff?

[about_faces]

We don't know if it IS Titan. But either way, I'm betting that this is Scarecrow's doing, as I said in the post.