I'll be honest with you folks: with one exception, there are no winners in today's batch of villains. Granted, I haven't actually read any stories featuring the majority of these characters, so all I have to go by in this case is their bios and what info I can find online, but I doubt reading their original comics would have helped much ( Read more... )

One of the few Two-Face appearances I don't own happens to be a collector's item: Batman #260, which featured the first appearance of Arkham Asylum dash it all, I completely forgot, that was another issue, and one I'd already posted! Ugh, stupid me. Guess I'm still brain-fried from the long drive back from Orlando. Then damn, why the hell is THIS ( Read more... )

Just under the wire for TWOsday ( Read more... )

I love old comic covers. The great J.M. DeMatteis recently described the allure of classic covers as being "like cosmic portals, opening up doorways to other dimensions; colorful parallel universes far preferable to the one I inhabited ( Read more... )

Back when I posted Two-Face: Year One--which entirely cut out the character of Gilda from the origin--one commenter asked if any kind of wife/finance is really needed for Harvey ( Read more... )

Ah, Two-Face and the Joker: the Itchy and Scratchy of Gotham's Rogues Gallery ( Read more... )

One of the most distinctive aspects of The Bronze Age of Comics (early 70's to mid 80's) was how it mixed classic superheroics in a greater sense of realism.

Or at least, that was the attempt, more often than not. Even those results that were groundbreaking at the time now read as dated, ham-handed, and/or just plain silly. I mean, I know it's ( Read more... )