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scans_dailyNo lengthy intro this time, too much stuff to do today. So let's just jump straight into it, right from where we left off.
Note: Scans taken from Comics Revue magazine, #47-50.
Oh, look, there's that missing panel from the end of the previous part with Alfred actually giving the "Secret Papers" to Harvey:
I've never seen Bruce employ the "idiot Playboy" guise so often as he does in this strip, much less him actually using it for subterfuge. He has everyone fooled, even to the point where actual friends like Harvey and Alice are disgusted with him. It really says a lot about how Bruce handles the few relationships in his life.
In a lot of ways, this feels like Classic Joker combined with the forthcoming Joker of The Dark Knight. He's a self-professed Agent o' Chaos, spreading mayhem and ruin throughout the city for *fun.* What's more, he's allied himself with actual terrorists, giving Ledger!Joker's terrorist bent actually prescience. To top it off, it mirrors another aspect of TDK, that even hardened convicts aren't all monsters like the Joker is.
Psshhh, silly Batman, the Joker didn't lose.
... wow. Even though this Harvey is more antagonistic of Batman, whose methods he wasn't at all wrong to hate, he still takes responsibility for his own failings. He's self-aware enough to know that he shouldn't be in that position anymore, and is actually ready to step down as D.A. Just think, he actually might have been saved if Bruce (and to a lesser extent, Alice) hadn't talked him out of it. I wonder if Bruce will remember that in the events to come?
That's right. Coming up next, it's Harvey vs. the Joker in the courthouse.
Note: Scans taken from Comics Revue magazine, #47-50.
Oh, look, there's that missing panel from the end of the previous part with Alfred actually giving the "Secret Papers" to Harvey:
I've never seen Bruce employ the "idiot Playboy" guise so often as he does in this strip, much less him actually using it for subterfuge. He has everyone fooled, even to the point where actual friends like Harvey and Alice are disgusted with him. It really says a lot about how Bruce handles the few relationships in his life.
In a lot of ways, this feels like Classic Joker combined with the forthcoming Joker of The Dark Knight. He's a self-professed Agent o' Chaos, spreading mayhem and ruin throughout the city for *fun.* What's more, he's allied himself with actual terrorists, giving Ledger!Joker's terrorist bent actually prescience. To top it off, it mirrors another aspect of TDK, that even hardened convicts aren't all monsters like the Joker is.
Psshhh, silly Batman, the Joker didn't lose.
... wow. Even though this Harvey is more antagonistic of Batman, whose methods he wasn't at all wrong to hate, he still takes responsibility for his own failings. He's self-aware enough to know that he shouldn't be in that position anymore, and is actually ready to step down as D.A. Just think, he actually might have been saved if Bruce (and to a lesser extent, Alice) hadn't talked him out of it. I wonder if Bruce will remember that in the events to come?
That's right. Coming up next, it's Harvey vs. the Joker in the courthouse.
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Date: 2011-02-15 12:06 am (UTC)Gotta love that Alfred reply.
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Date: 2011-02-15 04:48 am (UTC)Yeah, it's pretty interesting how conflicted Harvey is here. He feels useless, and is willing to use extreme means to counteract that uselessness - and yet, there is a line which he refuses to cross, and he's horrified that he almost DID cross it. Presumably, that last one is going to change.
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Date: 2011-02-15 07:59 am (UTC)This Joker, too, is pretty awesome. An appropriate and semi-functional blend of insanity who actually enjoys his work and isn't just a murdering psychopath.
I've always liked more use of the Bruce-playboy identity, although in this case I do sort of wonder why Harvey or anyone else hasn't said "Gosh, for a guy whose parents were murdered by criminals, he really doesn't care much about crime, does he?"
Once again newspaper strips seem to be getting the better of half of what I read at the comic store these days.
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Date: 2011-02-15 12:56 pm (UTC)