"Heads, I'm Batman. Tails, I'm still Batman."
I was a little torn on this guy. Last week, he came out alongside the Stephanie Batgirl, but buying two DC Direct toys in one week is a bit much for my budget. So I chose the one I definitely wanted, and decided that if this guy was still there next week I’d get him, too.
He was still there, so.
The Two-Face Batman is bittersweet. See, there was this “Battle for the Cowl” promo poster that showed him in it as one of the potential replacements for Batman (since Bruce was dying and all). And he was friggin’ awesome. Outlandish, yes, but you know me. I often love outlandish things.
And then he never showed up in the storyline.
And then once Dick took on the Batman role, finally, Two-Face showed up dressed in this costume. …for like a panel, because it was just a drug-addled hallucination on Dick’s part. Lame!
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame!
I was so excited for that costume. And then they totally pulled the rug out from under it. Curse you, DC! But yet they still made a toy of it. So I got it. Because Two-Face Batman is totally rad. I love the silver-age style capsules on one side of the belt and the modern-age style pouches on the other. I love how the Batsymbol is different on each side. I love the bright red and the dark blue. I love the gun. And I especially love that it’s friggin’ Two-Face dressed up like Batman.
Also, hey, bicep rotation articulation. Bonus!
Meanwhile, the blurb on the back of the packaging claims that this Two-Face totally showed up for real. Like hell he did! Screw you, DC!
*cough* Anyway…speaking of universe-jumping… My personal belief is that Two-Face Batman didn’t appear in the Death of Batman arc from our universe, but the one from the alternate universe shown on Fringe a couple weeks (months?) ago, as that universe’s equivalent to the Cyborg Superman from the Death of Superman arc that that universe’s DoB paralleled. Are you sure this fig wasn’t shipped from an alternate universe? >_>
Here in England we’ve just gotten the issue where Dick Grayson puts on the bat-mask and becomes Batman properly, after fighting off Damian, Jason and Tim to get it. Seriously, he’s just had one fight in the costume. Against some weird pig-obsessed plastic surgeon.
Two-face Batman can and cannot breathe in space.
The worst part is, that’s actually possible
Schroedinger’s Superhero?
So you’re saying that Dick Grayson had to beat off three other guys to get at Batman’s cowl? It just doesn’t seem right somehow.
http://blog.wfmu.org/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/24/archie_beat_off.jpg
Maybe we’ll be lucky and he’ll show up in a Brave and the Bold episode. That show’s funky enough to pull it off.
You should do a series of pics of Two-Face Batman punching people.
O.o
That’s weird, he looks curiously like this supervillain I created called Professor Moodswing, only… Batmanized.
Of course, Prof. Moodswing’s half-white, half-blue color (with reversed for the cowl and underpants) represents his control over the emotional spectrum, while with Two-Face it represents, well… his two-facedness. XD
Still, I feel a lot less original now. ;_;
You missed the Golden Age Daredevil reference, huh?
First thing I thought when I saw this. “…Wait, why does he have a gun, he should have a boomeran- ooohhh.”
Oh wait, I just realized he reminds me of Harley Quinn too.. she’ll sue him for stealing her basic color scheme.
Hey, it’s… er… Kikaider Batman? Metalder Batman? …Heat Trigger Batman?
Hey he did appear in two issues, but just as a halluciation Dick was having.
So yeah, I think he knows.
I suppose that if you are spending money you don’t have on things you don’t need, you have the right to say “screw you” to the company that has you so entralled–the company that you just can’t stop giving money to.
In psycho land, anyway.
Most of us in the real world take personal responsibility for our choices and find no cause to curse corporations for being what they are. Yes. We must look at ourselves in the mirror and curse ourselves for being stupid enough to continue giving money to offending companies. Hopefully, after our reverie, we’ll wise up and stop spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need.
I generally like DC a lot and am happy to give them money, so fuck you in your face.
Yes. He does have the right. He’s a paying customer who loves the company and considering all the money he’s spent on them over the years, he has the right to say what he wants about the company.
I didn’t find David’s entry insulting, baseless, or random. He has his complaints like we all do and if he wasn’t satisfied with something that’s fine. I spend far to much money on RPGs but if I pick up a book that I’m not satisfied with I’ll complain about it!
Saying he needs to grow up in “The real world?” I’d like to hear what you spend your money on and then make baseless accusations against that.
Trollin’ trollin’ trollin’…