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27-04-2008
Batman "Faces" and "Going sane"
Will the REAL Wolverine please stand up?
"Faces" and "Going sane": two great
Legends of the Dark Knight coming in TPB.
By "The Ace of Knaves"
I was quite happy to see the announcement of "Faces" and "Going sane"
in TPB, as these are two excellent story arcs from "Legends of the Dark
Knight" which I just recently read as back-issue comics. "Faces" (by Matt
Wagner) was published originally is issues 28-30 (march to may 1992) and
contains a solid Two-face story. I can't really find myself in the "army
of deformed super-powerful slaves" blurb used in the promotion of the
TPB, as the to me the story seems to be more about the balance between
interior beauty and exterior deformity (and vice versa) rather than about
any "super-powers". Not every deformed body has a deformed soul and not
every beautiful body has the soul to match. Quite ironic that Two-face
has to learn this lesson in this arc. The art by Willie Schubert is absolutely
spot-on for this theme. If you liked Tod Browning's movie "Freaks", you're
going to love "Faces". I know I did.
"Going Sane" (by De Matteis) appeared in LOTDK65-68 (nov 1994-feb 1995)
and features a quite tragic story about how Batman and the Joker are doomed
to each other. I don't want to give away too much, but I do want to say
that it contains some heart-breaking scenes when the Joker's fragile recovering
sanity is once again broken. In fact at this point in the story the roles
seem to reverse: whereas normally you'd be angry at the Joker for disturbing
Batman's peace, here Batman seems to come close near the villainous part
as he (probably involuntary) draws the Joker back into their eternal dance
of death and insanity.
I can only hope that this heralds the appearance of more LOTDK TPB's,
as there are some other marvellous story arcs from this period really
deserving the treatment, such as "Prey" (LOTDK 11-15) featuring the always
wonderfully unstable Hugo Strange.
We're
on "well deserved" holiday from 05-05 untill 13-05. The
shop stays open for orders, but they will be shipped starting from
16-05. There could be delay on posting the preorders for May, so
please forgive me ; )
Please
Note:
Deadline
for this month's previews is closing on monday 22u.