A Special TMI Two-Face Tuesday, Featuring Azrael!

[thehefner]

Harvey had a small supporting role in a two-part storyline where Jean-Paul Valley broke into Arkham Asylum looking for one of his old enemies. Unfortunately, he ran into a whole lotta released inmates, led by the Joker, who was using Harvey (and his coin) to judge where they should take their fun. The story itself is so unremarkable that I can't remember the plot details (it doesn't help that I don't own the preceding issues of Azrael), but it does feature a couple moments of Harvey crack, most notably these panels:





... ewwww. Welp, I don't think anyone's going to try taking his coin now.












I love Harvey's stunned and even helpless look: "Why coin no come down?" That said, I certainly hope Azrael washes his glove later. We know where that coin's been.

Over the course of the story, Jean-Paul gets knocked out and is awakened to find himself naked, with the Joker wearing his armor. Awk-ward! The bad guy (the one whose cybernetic design SCREAMS "the 90's") manipulates Jean-Paul's Azrael programming to unlock the badass killer inside the naked pretty boy and proceeds to light the Joker's hair on fire:







That has to be one of the more ignominious takedowns that Harvey's ever suffered, particularly as his reaction is less "How DARE you?!" like a proper villain and more, "Hey, not cool! Ow!" I love when Two-Face is written to play with the themes of fairness, even at points like this where he almost sounds like an angry child. Which, as we've seen many times, is often how many writers view the manifestation of Harvey's mental illness.

Comments

[icon_uk]

First up, nice Kitson art, though the colouring is a little weird in some bits.

Second, don't promise me captive naked blond pretty boys and then have them wearing briefs, it's very disillusioning.

Third, oh look a female inmate at Arkham who isn't Ivy (and this predates Harley's inception into the DCU)... what's the bet she's never heard from again?

Fourth, don't they EVER consider not putting all these nutcases costumes in the same building as them?

[whitesycamore]

And such ugly, un-brief briefs too! There's not even any intriguing use of shadow.

Not one to add to The Folder.

[arilou_skiff]

Well, to be fair, that means they'd be easier to catch, no?

SOme of them would just look like anyone without their duds.

[kamino_neko]

In the real world, inmates of correctional institutes (presumably including the ones that are also mental institutions, though I can't say for sure) wear uniforms for just that reason - if the prisoner escapes, they're wearing a bright orange jumpsuit making them easy to identify, or else they're naked (giving another reason to pick them up), or stripped to their shorts (while not necessarily illegal, or identifiable as prison-issue, make them draw attention).

Now, of course, with costumed villains, as you say, their costumes have the same effect - it's hard to blend in motley, for one example - but, on the other hand, as a mental institution, there's an argument to be made for not letting the inmates of Arkham have access to their costumes as they're part of their insanity.

[whitesycamore]

I can sort of empathise with Joker's plans to eat that prison guard, because he looks like he would be delicious.

Also is IS totally not fair to punch Harvey's good side.

[icon_uk]

Vore, eh? o_O Not something I'd have expected from you.

[whitesycamore]

I think you know my tastes run a little darker than yours, but don't go reading too deeply into *all* my damn fool ramblings. ;)

I mean, there's a reason why attractive men are sometimes called "dishy" right?

SD is nearly an exercise in free association for me some days.

[icon_uk]

I wholeheartedly fish with that gazebo

(I think I'm more of a dadaist at times)

[auggie18]

Googled and, wow. There's a fetish for everything, huh?

[icon_uk]

So it would seem.

[salinea]

... urge to post CLAMP manga increasing...

[nezchan]

Wait until you get to the really disturbing stuff.

[auggie18]

Vore is kinda on the light side of weird sex stuff the internet has exposed me to. I guess the internet decided to skip the middle ground and give me stuff like guro right off the bat. (Thank you very much, Nostalgia Critic fanbase.)


That's pretty much the most disturbing sex thing I've learned about online and if there's anything worse, I don't want to know about it.

[nezchan]

Well, just make sure you don't Google the word....

...y'know, I'm not even gonna say it.

[misterbug]

Dammit, now I'm imagining Harvey being played earnestly by Christopher Walken.

[mullon]

I assume that is suposed to look like Cable, as part of this whole mocking 90s antihero thing.

[nezchan]

You haven't heard the last of me!


BEARS!

[auggie18]

First place my mind went when I saw Azrael? That cat from the Smurfs. That cat made more of an impression that this guy.

Is the blonde woman Mockingbird? I don't recognize her off the top of my head.

[icon_uk]

Pagan?

[thehefner]

I was wondering that myself. According to Comic Vine, she's not listed as being in the issue, but Comic Vine is even shoddier than Wikipedia.

Brief intro

[riddler13]

I read it before at your most excellent blog, and, as I recall, the most controversial point was "WHO is that blonde female inmate"?

BTW, I'm jogadoresesquecidos.blogspot.com. Finally got my account, and will be posting some DC Bronze Age and LOTS of Bande Designé soon! :)

Re: Brief intro

[riddler13]

One more thing: I think she was Samantha, the one who thought was a witch.

Re: Brief intro

[thehefner]

Thanks for the kind word about the blog! :)

Was that Samantha or Vox? Either or both of them are Alan Grant characters, I think, and neither made any major appearances.

Neato! What Bronze Age DC stuff will you be posting? Any classic Batman stuff? I'd love to read some little-reprinted appearances of Riddler, Scarecrow, Croc, and/or Ivy!