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Denny O'Neil raises a question you don't want answered in "Azrael", featuring a Harvey cameo

May 22, 2011 23:18

Before I left my home, my Henchgirl, and my scanner behind to perform in the Orlando Fringe Festival*, I scanned a few small bits to post if I ever got the chance. As I'm taking an early night in, I'm back to offer a fun (and slightly TMI) cameo appearance from Harvey in the pages of Denny O'Neil's AzraelHarvey had a small supporting role in a two- ( Read more... )

rogues gallery, denny o'neil, joker, barry kitson, arkham

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surrealname May 23 2011, 04:32:33 UTC

i like that the joker is on fire. i don't want to know why he's on fire. i want to believe that the joker is just running around on fire and no one cares becuase, well, this is just the sort of thing he does.

about_faces May 23 2011, 19:09:24 UTC

Really, I considered posting more for context, and now I'm glad I didn't. You're right, it's much better this way.

surrealname May 25 2011, 04:03:31 UTC

if we ever do the arkham asylum play, we have to have a scene where the joker runs around on fire for no reason and no one questions it.

bitemetechie May 23 2011, 08:42:56 UTC

Put this one in the stack of appearances that prove Harvey and Two-Face are separated entities...

In other news: seriously, ew Harvey.

And very randomly, I miss Azrael. I mean, O'Neill's Azrael. :/

Also, who's the blonde chick who's oh-so-nineties? (And whose art is this? Because also ew.)

*Someone in my audience today actually asked me to about my Hush rant. I truly never thought there would be any crossover between my Two-Face fandom friends and my Fringe performance artist friends. Now, if only there were a way to make money by combining solo performance with comic geekery...

Aw! You have groupies!

...I WILL DESTROY THEM ALL.

Also, if you haven't seen Superman Drinks...I think it might be important to do so. It's one of the few shows to get a rave review and it tackles stuff that you've going to need to tackle sooner or later.

about_faces May 23 2011, 19:08:25 UTC

I tried reading O'Neil's early Azrael, and was bored silly. I think he's a character whose book improved with time, but it also helped once Barry Kitson stopped doing the art. I love Kitson's art in my favorite Hal and Barry stories, JLA: Year One and Flash/GL: The Brave and the Bold, but in this dark setting it's oh so very 90's. As is the blond chick, but I was unable to find any info or clues. Even the comicvine pages for these issues don't feature anybody in the character rosters to include her. Random blond chick! Maybe Harley was working out.

And if you miss O'Neil's Azrael, I again would suggest maybe possibly reading his Question run perhaps why not? Because that run was more like the issues of Azrael which you read than the early issues of Azrael like this.

Well, the groupie in question is another performer, but still! MY INFLUENCE BE GROWING.

I will make it a point to see that show today.

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about_faces May 24 2011, 04:45:09 UTC

Nuts, I STILL need to buy Child of Dreams, damn it! And I'm getting up the nerve to post Two-Face Strikes Twice, especially now, since it was Gilda's most recent (till now) appearance in modern-day canon.

The Ponytail!Joker story really was THAT good. I just read it for the first time a few months ago, and fell in love with it. So great.

ext_545621 May 23 2011, 17:07:56 UTC

Oh God, I wish I'd never read this. Harvey, uh, hiding his coin from the guards is now burned into the back of my mind from abject horror.

Also, what is it with the Joker and using Harvey's coin? He did it in AA:ASHOSE, here, possibly another story... or maybe I dreamt that. It's entirely possible.

about_faces May 23 2011, 19:03:08 UTC

Harvey's probably like a toy to the Joker. He's Mr. J's own personal Magic 8 Ball!

abqreviews May 23 2011, 17:31:07 UTC

Considering a few of the comics professionals that have posted here, it's only a matter of time before Grant Morisson sees this and uses it for a plot where the coin gains sentience, grows to giant size, attempts to roll over on Harvey as punishment for this, then teams up with Scarecrow's pet crow (Caw? Nightmare? Whatever he calls it) and the Blatt (Pied Piper's sentient musical note) for wacky faux-Silver Age adventures.

about_faces May 23 2011, 19:12:03 UTC

After the whole "Zurr Enn Arr" thing where Batman actually began communicating with gargoyles, I had a whole visual of Morrison writing Two-Face as actually being able to talk to currency. The coin is LITERALLY giving him the answer, oooh!

Honestly, if Morrison's stories were actually DRAWN in wacky Silver Age Sprang style, I'd probably like them so much more.