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05/09/2003: Dick Grayson and Two-Face...
You know, I really expected the Zero Hour version of the Two-Face incident in Robin #0 to be consistent with the Robin: Year One version, what with both being (co-)written by the same person, i.e. Chuck Dixon. But they're not. Aargh.
In Robin #0 Two-Face sets up the double gallows with Batman and the new district attorney, Aldrich Meany, who succeeded Harvey Dent (interpreted by psychologists as Dent trying to kill his former identity as crusading prosecutor symbolically), whereas in Robin: Year One #2 Two-Face sets up a pseudo-trial for Judge Lawrence Watkins, accusing him of murdering Harvey Dent, because he allowed an appeal for that mobster who then scarred Dent's face. In Robin #0 Two-Face asks for ransom from the city, in Robin Year One #2 he doesn't. In Robin #0 Robin asks for the coin to be tossed and the scratched side is up, so Two-Face lets the district attorney hang, Robin throws a baterang to cut the rope, but there's water under the gallows so the district attorney drowns; in Robin Year One #2, Two-Face tosses the coin first on the question who hangs first, clean side the judge, scarred side Batman, clean side is up, so the judge is first, Robin dares Two-Face for two out of three, if the clean side is up again the judge won't hang. Robin wins, however he wasn't specific enough, thus Two-Face doesn't hang the judge, but lets him drown. Not to mention that in Robin #0 Batman doesn't have a sack over his head at the start, or that in Robin #0 Nightwing says to Tim that Bruce adopted him then etc.
But really, why couldn't the main points of the Two-Face story stay roughly the same? The two comics are only a bit more that six years apart, and Chuck Dixon wrote both of them (Robin Year One together with Scott Beatty), and Dennis O'Neil is listed as editor in both.
< whine > Also I'm still stuck with the back pain, and though it's getting better it still sucks. Not only haven't I cataloged any more Batman comics, effectively halting my slow but steady progress on that project, I also haven't made any progress on a paper I should be working on, nor have I started the drawing I have an idea for, because all of these (like most things I do for university stuff or fun) require sitting for a longer time. I haven't even managed to read texts I'm supposed to, because while I can read lying down it sucks for taking notes on the texts, and also I'm very likely to fall asleep when I read in bed, no matter whether I was tired before I lay down or not. < /whine >
