Batman: Two Feces
Batman: Two Feces

Posted by Crazy Ivan

In Reply to: Batman: two faces posted by on May 23, 1999 at 05:43:15 PM EDT

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I fully agree. I browsed the book, but refused to pay for it. In my mind Gotham by Gaslight is one of the best comics I've ever read, and back when it came out I mre fully developed the Victorian Batman mythos, coming up even with the 'Justice Order' who form to combat the Martian War Machines.

Gotham by Gaslight gives us a hint of a Joker figure, in the 'wicked looking jasper' whom Gordon tell Wayne failed to take his own life by drinking strictnine (I *think* that was the drug he used) and wound up with an evil rictus grin. The Jaspar, as I've come to know him, had the potential to be an American Moriarty/Joker amalgam, but now I'm forced to accept the idea that the Bruce Wayne of a hundred years past wouldn't have had the same moral strength his modern counterpart did by giving up the designer drug Venom to increase his crime fighting abilities.

For me, BM:TF ruined all four characters: Batman, the Joker, Two-Face, and Dr. Jeckyll/ Mr. Hyde. It ranks right up there with Castle of the Bat and makes me care nothing for the players involved. All I could muster for them was a little sympathy, and a "Thank GOD it's only an Elseworld!"

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