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about_facesBefore I left my home, my Henchgirl, and my scanner behind to perform in the Orlando Fringe Festival*, I scanned a few small bits to post if I ever got the chance. As I'm taking an early night in, I'm back to offer a fun (and slightly TMI) cameo appearance from Harvey in the pages of Denny O'Neil's Azrael.
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), but it does feature a few 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.
*Someone in my audience today actually asked me to about my Hush rant. I truly never thought there would be any crossover between my Two-Face fandom friends and my Fringe performance artist friends. Now, if only there were a way to make money by combining solo performance with comic geekery...
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), but it does feature a few 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.
*Someone in my audience today actually asked me to about my Hush rant. I truly never thought there would be any crossover between my Two-Face fandom friends and my Fringe performance artist friends. Now, if only there were a way to make money by combining solo performance with comic geekery...
