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ANYA TAYLOR JOY as ALIA ATREIDES — DUNE PART TWO (2024), dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Arthur Brown: the self-proclaimed master of puzzles and clues who can’t figure out who could have POSSIBLY sent the two women wearing giant question marks to break him out of jail.

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PaulRomanMartinez

Superman 75th Anniversary

The creation of Vintage Batman

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TOP 22 TWO-FACE STORIES OF ALL TIME

22.) “Second Chance,” from Batman: The Animated Series (1994)

More about Batman’s devotion to Harvey than Harvey himself, this episode of BTAS is a great look at their friendship, how love can blind someone to another’s flaws, and trying to save someone from themselves.

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TOP 22 TWO-FACE STORIES OF ALL TIME

20.) Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying (1989) from Batman #440-442 and New Titans #60-61

Besides the Tim Drake origin, this is a great look at how a Batman without Robin leaves him deadlocked with a conflicted Harvey in a deadly game of cat-and-also-cat. This is the first hint of Harvey having a distinct secondary personality, where the Joker’s gaslighting leads to Harvey possibly developing an actual alter for Two-Face. Awesome Jim Aparo art accompanies work by the legendary George Perez, who sadly doesn’t draw Harvey for more than a couple pages.

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TOP 22 TWO-FACE STORIES OF ALL TIME 

18.) “Fifty-Fifty,” (1997) from Batman & Robin Adventures #22

Kidnapped by mobsters and armed with only a quarter, Harvey has to hack his own mental illness to defy his captors and protect his estranged ex- fiancée, Grace Lamont. A great follow-up to the feel-bad events of Dini’s “Two Timer” from B&RA #1-2. One of the best looks at Harvey’s lawful neutrality.

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TOP 22 TWO-FACE STORIES OF ALL TIME

16.) “Face to Face to Face to Face” (1987), from Teen Titans Spotlight #13

Harvey puts Cyborg through a brutal psychological gauntlet to prove that anyone can become a monster. The first comics work by J. Michael Straczynski, this is Batman: The Killing Joke one year before Moore’s story was published.

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TOP 22 TWO-FACE STORIES OF ALL TIME

3.) Batman, the syndicated newspaper comic strips (1989-1991)

A lost gem with a flawed, conflicted Harvey which remains the longest sustained complete arc of the character to date, culminating in a stunning finale you’d never see in the comics. Desperately needs to be collected in print, but until then, you can read the whole thing at my sideblog, The Daily Batman.

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2.) The Harvey Kent Trilogy from Detective Comics #66, 68, and 80 (1942-43)

Even after eight decades, the original Two-Face saga is still the gold standard by which all Harvey stories SHOULD be defined. Written by Bill Finger at the top of his game, this Two-Face is more complex and interesting here than in most stories that followed, packed with character potential that’s gone unrealized to this very day. Absolutely required reading that stands the test of time.

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1.) “Eye of the Beholder,” (1990) from Batman Annual #14

The definitive modern Two-Face origin, and still the best Harvey story to date. It’s been both imitated and ignored, but never matched. Deserves to be hailed as an iconic classic of Batman stories alongside Batman: Year One.

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We began with the criminals that the people know, so that our actions would be understood. It’s not just a question of whether or not to use violence. There simply is no other way.

Magnum Force (1973, dir. by Ted Post)

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top five video games! (or movies if you got that one already)

I'll go with both :)

VIDEO GAMES:

1. Red Dead Redemption II

This game, seriously. It will take a while to beat this quality that game has. story line, characters, fights, immersive world, the wild life, ARTHUR!!!!!, the horses, the nature, all the things you can interact with and the dialogues with just random npc's — this game made me speechless. Sadly I got horribly spoiled for the story that I never ever finished the game. My Arthur baby is still healthy. I think he coughed only once. Dunno if I'll ever finish it. There's a lot of story left, but I grazed every part of the map I could reach with Arthur (except for the western part across the river). (Cyberpunk could have been like that, sadly it did not).

2. The Elder Scrolls V — Skyrim

My first game where I had to make own character (before that I only played car racing games or a few Final Fantasy :,D). I got so immersed into the world of TES that I chose to do my bachelor thesis about the dragon language used in Skyrim – so this must mean something alright? Sadly I never came to enjoy playing the game on pc. PS4 provided that mods can be used, tho but at that time I've already beaten out the entire game with my PS3 that I never really played it on PS4. But I love all the memories I've got of it — especially with my thief character. I still love him lots.

3. Cyberpunk 2077

If there wouldn't be Skyrim and RDR2, this game would probably be on No. 1. If you ask me of the story — probably not. But damn it's been a whole while since a game soaked me that deep into it. Maybe it's got to do because you can make own characters again, and I happen to develop them now, with so many head canons + the luck of having a super awesome photo mode and possibilities with mods that make the characters almost alive. It's something completely new and I'm glad I bought a motherfucking gaming laptop — I'd have missed all this. Well aside of this: The setting is just amazing, I love futurisic settings because I'm a sucker for movies like Blade Runner and a chunk of my heart is still in Tokyo (which I've visited 4x and to me is a real cyberpunk city already).

4. Assassin's Creed

The one and only real Assassin's Creed game. Altair is badass and it was amazing to get him back from a novice to a true master assassin. love the setting, love the monotone game play, love that altair can't heal himself, love that he can't swim, love that he has no money. Love the combat, Altair is super brutal. No other Assassin's Creed game could reach this master piece ever. (I'm interested in the new one tho bc back into that time and setting again but I don't like this open world stuff they did since the Egypt part).

5. Thief

Sneaky games are my specialty since I made my thief character in Skyrim. And when I learned about there are actual thief games, and a new one got to be released back in 2014 I was all bats about it. I've watched let's plays of the old Thief games, tho. but the latest for PS4 I enjoyed so much I even found a lot of lore from the old games in it and I can't understand to this day why this game flopped. It makes me still sad, the entire game studio had to close because of the flop. Old fans seemed to hate it as much as new people. For me it's a gem because of all the references to the old games — Story? what story? My soul is still captured deep down under the moira asylum, ugh. Never had a game freaked me out more than this part of it (Okay Alien was worse bc the Alien is unpredictable). But being in an empty asylum with no one but you freaks u surely out and therefore this game alone is a master piece.

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MOVIES:

1. High Plains Drifter

No sterotypical western and therefore I fucking love it alone. It's art. The people of Lago do not know what is going to happen when that ghostly stranger rides into their town. He turns it literally into hell seeking vengeance. Watching it for the first time can leave you unsatisfied having questions or you're probably going to ask yourself: what the heck did I just watch? Because you expected a western. I'm a sucker for Clint Eastwood movies, especially the 60s and 70s ones. This one is the first - or was it the second one? - he directed and playing in it and I consider it a masterpiece.

2. Magnum Force

Yes, I'm also a sucker for cop movies since I was a kid, so it was no wonder I liked all the five Dirty Harry movies when I chose to watch them for the first time back in 2020. But Magnum Force got to be my favorite (even tho the first one is pretty cool as well). Harry Callahan kicks asses – even in his own ranks. And I love his one liners, alright? Plus the movies are all filmed in San Francisco. It's my favorite city. I'll never get enough seeing that beautiful city, no matter what decade (it used to look prettier back in the days, tho).

3. Indiana Jones 1—3* (there ain't only one sorry not sorry)

Indy is my childhood hero. He's always in my top 5. I rewatched his three 80s adventures so often that I lost count of it. And every character travelling with him is amazing. Willie, Shorty, Henry Jones Senior (aaahh Sean Connery ;_;), Marion, Sallah, Marcus Brody, Elsa – I even liked the stupid nazis bc they are so fun to watch losing all the time against Indy and his crew!!! Settings are amazing (Egypt, India, Italy (Venice my love)) — and no friggin CGI back then. Quality movies no new movie will ever reach again.

*not the 4th tho.

4. For a Few Dollars More

Ugh, I'm just a sucker for Clint as the Man with no Name, alright? But the second is my favorite bc I love love love Manco (Clint) in it. He does everything left handed, he's my hero! (there's way too less left handed characters). And the dynamic he's got with Mortimer (Lee van Cleef) is just AAA+++. Two bounty hunters on a mission. The music underlines the cinematic scenes so good, I'm always in awe (thank you Ennio Moriccone for your music <3).

5. Where Eagles dare

Another 60s movie with Clint alongside Richard Burton in the main roles. This time it's a war movie. The story follows a team of British-American special Operations Executive raiding a castle. Love the plot, fuck up all the nazi scum (probably Clint's highest kill count in a movie ever). Somehow the movie reminds me a bit of Wolfenstein, I bet it was some inspiration for the old games. Amazing action scenes with a lot of fire and explosions.

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Enola Holmes 2 (2022), dir. Harry Bradbeer

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TASK FORCE Z #12

Written by MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Art and cover by EDDY BARROWS and EBER FERREIRA

Variant cover by JIM CHEUNG

1:25 variant cover by TRAVIS MERCER

Hispanic Heritage Month variant cover by CHRIS BATISTA

$3.99 US | 32 pages | 12 of 12 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)

ON SALE 9/27/22

Jason Todd’s final second chance. Red Hood and what remains of Task Force Z have seen the true horrors that Powers International has released upon Gotham City and the world. When he shares all of this with Batman, it will lead them to their worst confrontation yet and lead Jason Todd to change his direction in the DCU. What’s the point of forgiveness when the world is so broken? Find out in this epic series conclusion!

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Untitled Goose Game but you play as R2-D2 and your job is to ruin the Empires day.

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