NEW COMICS REVIEW: Two-Face in "Forever Evil" #1 and "Batman and Robin" #23.1 (2013)

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This week, Harvey Dent was featured in a one-shot story that not only set the stage for "The Big Burn" (his upcoming new storyline in Batman and Robin, which may or may include a new origin), but also served as a direct tie-in to DC's latest massive crossover event, Forever Evil, where the villains of the DCU take center stage. That's right, it's a

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[psychopathicus]

I've toyed with a similar idea, but not as an alternate universe, but an alternate future. Specifically, it would be an answer to the old 'why doesn't Batman kill the Joker' question - Bats could go on a trip to a future wherein Joker had been cured of his insanity and was now using his genius for good things as a way to try and find redemption for all the horror he'd caused. For instance, his laugh-yourself-to-death chemicals might prove to be an effective treatment for clinical depression if tweaked in just the right way, or he might reinterpret his old the-world-is-a-joke philosophy into a more benevolent one that would actually improve society - 'everyone has the potential to bring meaning into a formerly meaningless world', for instance. Batman would return to the present with a damn good reason for not killing the Joker - for not killing anybody - because that would be saying that they were beyond hope of redemption, and, as he'd just witnessed, even the most seemingly monstrous of individuals could be capable of great things one day.