I had the great honour to have the cover colored by an industry professional with more than a thousand colored covers to his name: the great Richard Isanove (Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-men, Uncanny X-Men, The Dark Tower, Cyber Force, etc.)
Having recently watched the Batman with Robert Pattinson I was shown the best live action take on the character to date tied with perhaps Michael Keaton. My love for this take on the character is that it's going to a territory very few would dare to go and even fewer could pull it off without making it seem hammy or grimdark. The brutality is within the realms of reality which is what makes it all the more terrifying, the characters are themselves realistic and yet they're able to perform their fantastical acts without sacrificing that grounding which adds to the terror more so. As soon as that man put on that mask I knew this was going to be bad, of course there wasn't going to be any venom. Why would he need it? And of course Two Face would be something much deeper than a simple traumatic scarring, this is the kind of adaptational villainy that makes perfect sense when you lay it out so beautifully.
This story continues to fascinate me because it presents a version of the dark knight that no one else in my opinion has ever truly approached. The war on crime is literally a war, batman is truly a soldier in it and his enemies have been fighting in it just as long if not longer. Realistically he cannot win, but does that mean he won't? The story isn't over yet, and as we enter the endgame I find myself ever eager to see what happens, I can't guess what comes next but I know I will be enthralled by it.
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