Note: This is the third part of my retrospective of Gilda, a  complete history of the oft-overlooked woman who loved and lost Harvey Dent. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 here, and subsequent installments will be released weekly.


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Hey, everyone! Life has been pretty crappy over the past few days, so I haven't been able to finish any new reviews just yet, much less respond to the epic discussions in my last Rogues Gallery post, but I just wanted to write a quick round-up of remarkable tidbits that've come my way recently ( Read more... )

So hey, remember when I said that I'd discovered an even-more-obscure Batman newspaper comic strip, one which featured what may well be the single rarest Two-Face appearance ever?Well, good news, everyone! I have come into possession of several scans of the strips, including most of the Two-Face stuff! Not all of it, sadly, and I'm missing the ( Read more... )

So as a side project, I've started "The Daily Batman" (or "Batman_Daily," I can't decide which I prefer), a Tumblr blog where I can post the '89-'91 Batman comic strips as they originally ran: one per day, with the Sundays on Sundays ( Read more... )

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In an interview for his one-shot story, Joker's Asylum: Two-Face (which I'll look at on its own later), writer David Hine explained the appeal of writing Harvey:

"Two-Face is the perfect distillation of the Dice Man character. 'The Dice Man' was a novel by Luke Rhinehart that featured a guy who led his life according to the role of a dice. I ( Read more... )

Holy hell, have I made a discovery today.

After years of searching, I've finally found copies of the Batman newspaper comic strips from 1990. They're not collected anywhere, nor are they online. They'd only been reprinted once, in Comics Revue magazine, the issues of which have been IMPOSSIBLE to track down, and I've been looking in comic shops ( Read more... )

The latest strip by beatonna is slightly (disturbingly) relevant to our interests.

Now I regret not asking her for a sketch the last two or three times I had the chance. I'm now making it a point to request a "horrified Harvey" next time. Why, I bet it'll be an even bigger hit than her is surly Wonder Woman or is crazy Aquaman! Yeah, right.

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