psychotime's Two-Face: Year One #2 - Part 2 of 2 review

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    Blech.

    I'm sorry, this issue redeemed nothing. It didn't make me mad like the earlier one did, but it's nothing special.

    It continues much later. The Long Halloween has passed now. No idea what Harvey's been up to with the whole time, but it's no longer important. Right now, Harvey's doing a mock election using his buddies at Arkham to help him out. It's a creative plan, sure, but maybe a little silly for Two-Face. On top of that, he's a murderous vigilante, taking out anyone he sees as a criminal  with at the flip of a coin, so he's still doing the usual Two-Face stuff.

    One problem I have with this issue is how they continue the flashbacks from the first issue. It felt to me that the writer felt guilty for not including them in the first issue to have it make any sense. It appears that this writer was either under pressure from the higher ups (very likely) and had to make a story that only lasted two issues and certain incidents had to happen. This ruined it the story. It could have been awesome.

    I realized the main problem with the story: Instead of introducing a character and showing his/her origin through flashbacks, or the opposite; showing flashbacks that lead to the introduction of a character, this story did niether, it showed very little flashbacks and suddenly introduced the character, ruining the momentum, then tried to finish the backstory as if the track never jumped. I see that as bad writing.

    Either way, this story could have been very good. But things stopped it from reaching that height. I don't know who to blame.

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