In honor of today being 2/22, the intrepid lego_joker decided--for whatever inspired reason--to throw together collages of every single time that Harvey got hit in the face with acid. The result is oddly compelling in a way that's both hilarious and horrible. The colleges in question only cover the comics in the regular continuity, and he has plans to ( Read more... )

Hiya, folks, about_faces here! It's with great pleasure that I introduce today's guest review, courtesy of long-time commenter and seasoned critic, abqreviews! I'll warn you, this is a long one, filled with TONS of photos, but I promise you that all of it is very, very worth your while. I loved this post, especially since virtually all of it was news even to a great ( Read more... )

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One of the all-time great Two-Face stories is also, in my opinion, probably the worst thing to ever happen to him as a character. Which is to say, I love Two-Face Strikes Again! as a classic example of 50's Batman at its Sprang-iest fun, but I hate how it changed Harvey in ways that can still be seen in most bad Two-Face stories today ( Read more... )

Like many or perhaps even most comics fans, there was a time when I naturally assumed that the giant penny in the Batcave was--alongside the robot T-Rex and the big Joker playing card--a trophy from some previous clash with Two-Face. Well, either that or the time the Joker dressed up as Simple Simon and used a giant penny to try busting open a bank ( Read more... )

I feel bad for plowing ahead and ignoring the third Impostor, poor George Blake. Maybe it's because Blake's story is the only one that's been reprinted (in an affordable edition, anyway), but it might also have to do with the fact that "The Double Crimes of Two-Face" is kind of... well... stupid ( Read more... )

I really jumped the gun with my "Two-Face Impostors" series... in more ways than one! Appropriate enough, I suppose ( Read more... )

Note: This is the first in a series of posts dedicated to a character who, as you might quickly deduce, is not Harvey Dent ( Read more... )

Today, let's look at the first appearance of the second--and most enduring--of the impostors: Paul Sloane!

Like Harvey Apollo, this Two-Face was originally an actor, and I can't help but think that the Apollo story influenced this one. But unlike that out-of-canon ham actor, the in-continuity Sloane was actually more of a method actor who got a ( Read more... )

Reading the Golden Age Two-Face stories (half of which featured impostors in the role!), though, I've noticed a trend that carried through through those versions of the character. The more I noticed it, the funnier I thought it was. I'd actually intended to let that pattern unfold here with each post, rather than make it explicit, to see how many ( Read more... )