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icon_uk 's comments on today being 22/2/22... here is a classic Two-Face story.

'Eye of the Beholder' from Batman Annual #14 is probably the most important (and underrated) modern Two-Face story ever written. This was the issue that fleshed out Harvey Dent's origins and redefined his characterization as someone who was already struggling with his psyche before the acid hit. A lot of the material here was later used in 'The Long Halloween', the animated series and The Dark Knight.

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And where things get problematic for them is that Phyla is the only Phyla, but Moondragon isn't the only Moondragon — Reports of the death of this dimension's Moondragon were greatly exaggerated, so there are two Heather Douglases running around. And if you found that there was a better, purer, more heroic version of you out there, who'd made none of your mistakes, who was married to the great love of your life who you'd seen die ... how would you react? Not well. -- Al Ewing

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The idea started life as a suggestion for what to do for Marvel Comics #1000, but clearly we went a different way. But I still thought it was a fun idea. What Amazing Spider-Man Full Circle is then is a Round Robin. Which is to say, the writers were assigned in random order and their goal was to tell a wild and outrageous Spider-Man story—with nothing planned beforehand. Nobody knew who would be writing when, nor even exactly who else was a part of the story. So the goal in each case was to pick up the cliffhanger that the last writer left and then carry the story forward. The final chapter was group-written by everybody. -- Tom Brevoort

We basically tried to sabotage each other. -- Nick Spencer

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A lot of Tomorrow Stories was taking characters who didn't seem to me to have modern equivalents, who weren't really standard superheroes, and who I thought had still got something interesting in them. -- Alan Moore

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Batman was no longer your jolly uncle who dressed up as a bat, and I felt partly guilty because of that. So with Tom Strong, what I thought was: All right, let's see if we can come up with a character that would still appeal to 11-year-old boys or 13-year-old boys -- and it did -- and yet will be intelligent and fun enough for older readers to relate to as well. -- Alan Moore

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Tom Strong was an attempt, with all due respect to Siegel and Shuster, to pretend that they had never happened. How might those original thoughts evolve? -- Alan Moore

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I thought, "What would Jack Kirby do?" And I thought, "Yeah, Jack Kirby. He'd probably, like, create two or three memorable characters in as many issues and have some huge cosmic war going on," and yeah, that gave us a good little story arc. -- Alan Moore

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Married superheroes are somehow sexier. -- Alan Moore

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There's an issue where we're kind of doing a tribute to the old Captain Marvel line of comics, which I think were wonderful. They were whimsical. They've got talking tigers who wore suits. That's fantastic. That's the range of ideas that comics should be using. -- Alan Moore

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The original idea for the whole thing came when somebody, it may have been Rick Veitch, told me that there had been, back in the '40s, an America's Best Comics which I wasn't aware of. I thought it was a striking coincidence that we had America's Best Comics, and there was a series by the same name in the '40s. I asked [ABC editor] Scott Dunbier to check it out and see if he could find out anything about this comic, and whether there were any interesting characters.

For all I knew, it might have been a Western comic book, but I asked him to tell me if there were any interesting characters, with an eye to possibly reviving them if they were sort of old, forgotten characters, in the current America's Best Comics as a kind of instant 1940s continuity. I left it with Scott, and he got back to me, along with some other people who sent me covers from the original comics - it was then I realized that Doc Strange looked very much like Tom Strong - he had the same kind of bizarrely muscled physique. He wore a red t-shirt, and these jodhpurs, and boots. I realized that we wouldn't be able to do a character with the name Doc Strange. I though that maybe we could change the name to Tom Strange, because at that point, I though that his first name had never been given. I found out later that it was Hugo, so I think that the current orthodoxy at ABC is that his name is Thomas Hugo Strange.

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Fusing it with a progressive sensibility -- something that can be retrograde and avant-garde at the same time. So you get the best of what comics were, sort of distilled in some way to make the fuel for what comics will be. Not to sound too highfalutin about something that's just a crap superhero book. -- Alan Moore

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I wanted to do something sweet. It's lazy writing. Something about simplicity which seems to be what people enjoy. Surprisingly, I keep getting these bravery letters for putting in an interracial marriage. There aren't many mixed relations in comics. Since 1939, apart from the X-men, which was ambiguous, it hasn't happened. I hadn't thought about that. How shameful that is. How backward this medium is. -- Alan Moore

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What I could do is what everyone wants me to do, and to ignore the fact the popular market is going down the toilet. I could do something really obscure. I'd get critical appeal and sell 1,500 copies and incidentally go broke and earn the respect of Gary Groth, and the comics industry would completely fall to pieces. Even if it all happens, and comics does fall to pieces, at least I did my best. -- Alan Moore, on doing the ABC line instead of more indy fare

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