I've heard the name come up a few times, usually followed by complaints about what he's doing to Batman's Rogues Gallery (and something about Prometheus) in the pages of Gotham Knights, which I don't read. Can anyone give me details? (Don't worry about spoilers.)
plllllllllllltttttttttttttttttttttttt....one of the staple of shitty dc writers???
I read here at Rob's Flippin' Message Boards that he turned Prometheus into a gun crazy, one-dimensional character.
He also gave away The Joker's origin, which was ambigous for as long as I can remember.
Finally, he turned the aftermath of "Hush" into an indecipherable mess.
In other words, he will have a long reign as a Batman writer.
I heard winick helped though...
dick, we hate you..fuck off..
The Bat-villains have been treated poorly lately.
Lieberman
The Joker: Gave a definitive origin and had beaten by Hush.
Poison Ivy: About to depower or kill her.
Riddler: Had him reverted back to a B-list villain and beaten by Hush.
Winick
The Joker: Had beaten by a new Red Hood.
Scarecrow: Turned him into an actual beast.
Rucka
Ra's al Ghul: Killed him.
Loeb
Two-Face: Cured him and put him into comic book limbo.
Now we have a new face for the Rogues Gallery:
It merely sounds as if he shook up the status quo.
Which is a good thing.
And when has the Riddler been "A" class?
A guy who commits petty crime and bothers to leave clues as to how to catch him, isn't exactly the stuff of great drama.
He became A-class after Hush.
Agreed. A lot of potential now just flushed down the drain. Pity...
I share that setiment, but I'm just saying that without the conflict of interest going on inside of Harvey, he's lost his coolness factor. Now (provided they actually incorporate Miller's idea), he's just a crime boss, a thug. Rather one note if you ask me. I'm thinkin', as a story idea, that his conscience is able to break through eventually and try to take control again. The most effective way to do that would be to create a type of symbolic juncture through his previous physical affliction; he takes a knife or acid to his face and perhaps succeeds in restoring half and half but doesn't get to finish ruining his face.
Does anyone remember that really good "noir" story that Dini and Timm did in one of the "Black and White" books in which Harvey was cured and started dating a woman with a psychotic twin sister?
THAT was how you write Two-face.
I agree. He should date. They should de-gay Montoya and have him ask her out.
i really liked all the things loeb did to shake up the status quo. the HUSH storyline itself may have been presented like a "villain of the month" brochure, however, so many cool new possibilities were laid out.
a healed two-face, an empowered riddler, various rogues wars (riddler / ra's, hush / two-face, etc), a seemingly amped up ivy, the introduction of "hush," the better rebirth of jason todd, etc, etc.
all great possibilities.
ruined, only months later, in a dreadful sequence of gotham knights issues.
the joker was awful. he was whiney and not funny and not even really crazy. prometheus was a hitman, and a poor one. hush was awful, and still had issues with bandages (saw darkman. not good then.) ...batman was pathetic. green arrow (ollie) was the better fighter and better detective of the two.
its like every page introduced new, awful crap. i couldn't believe an editor would accept one of these stories, let alone a series of half a dozen, or so.
it was really, really bad.
So you're saying she
tricked herself into being attracted to Johnny's body?
Okay, now you're just spewing ad hominem to make your case seem more valid. Nothing you say about your self-proclaimed monopoly in understanding physical attraction will suddenly overlook Rucka's intent to characterize Montoya's awareness of being in the closet. At which point, her character wouldn't suggest she'd trap herself in a marriage that she'd hate. Going over the severity of physical attraction and then saying it can easily be thrown in the backseat sounds so cheap especially with an 'I-don't-expect-you-to-understand-it' tune. Being human, I understand emotion well enough. Please don't imply otherwise simply cuz' you're gay and I'm not.
Whatever Pariah. I am sick of this shit with you. If you don't buy it, fine. I'm telling you the story rang true for me...that's it. I'm not debating this with you. It was just an attempt to help you see the reality behind the situation. I really don't care about your personal opinions on the issue.
