Batman #712

[superfangirl1]

Two-face kills Mario Falcone and confronts Gilda.










Lucky batman mask prevent bullet penetration and absorb the impact from the firearm. Two-face and Gilda leaves him knock out. Damian comes moments later to the scene to take him back to the batcave bruise with a very bad headache.

Comments

[thehefner]

I'm glad that you're open about the story's many, many flaws, but I think you're still being way too forgiving for a story that holds a completely unearned status as an all-time Great Batman Story. If it were a little trifle, or a more obscure gem, then yeah, I'd forgive it more. As it is, hell no, it's riddled with cliches, flaws, bad writing, empty writing, and most of its elements are lifted wholesale from Batman: Year One, Helfer's Eye of the Beholder (the introduction of Absolute TLH has an interview with David Goyer and Christopher Nolan, who attribute EotB's rooftop scene as being a Loeb invention), The Godfather, and the film Presumed Innocent. It deserves far harsher scrutiny, especially in light of Hush, where Loeb tried pulling many of the same tricks for the second or even third time. Those just made it clear to me how much they didn't work the first time around, upon closer examination.

That doesn't sound like Harvey actively covered for Gilda as much as he made a surprising statement and Batman came to an assumption as to what it meant. How could Harvey have known that, by saying there were two Holiday killers, that Batman would instantly assume that Harvey was talking about Alberto and himself for some reason that came out of nowhere in the arrest?

And Jesus, don't even get me started on how the ending doesn't make a lick of goddamn sense unless Harvey, Gilda, and/or Alberto were in contact and had planned things out together.