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Two-Face Year One
Two-Face: Year One #2
The election coverage continues as Two-Face throws his hat in the ring! It's the shocking conclusion to the tightest race in Gotham City history, and it's only the beginning of Batman's struggle with a man who used to be his best friend — and the monster within.
48 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Mark Sable
90 books31 followersMark Sable is a writer for stage, screen, television and comics.
He is most noted as the writer/creator of the comics GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, GROUNDED, FEARLESS and HAZED for Image Comics and UNTHINKABLE for Boom! Studios.
Mark has worked on WHAT IF? SPIDER-MAN: DARK REIGN for Marvel Comic and SUPERGIRL, TEEN TITANS: COLD CASE, TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: CYBORG and TWO-FACE: YEAR ONE for DC Comics. He has contributed to Image's COMIC BOOK TATTOO, POPGUN and 24/7 anthologies.
He is also the only person ever to work for both Charlie Rose and Howard Stern.
Mark's most recent works include GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES for Image Comics and RIFT RAIDERS, the launch book for Kickstart Comics.
Both UNTHINKABLE and HAZED were optioned as feature films.
Upcoming books include DECOY and BLUE SKY for Kickstart.
He is most noted as the writer/creator of the comics GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, GROUNDED, FEARLESS and HAZED for Image Comics and UNTHINKABLE for Boom! Studios.
Mark has worked on WHAT IF? SPIDER-MAN: DARK REIGN for Marvel Comic and SUPERGIRL, TEEN TITANS: COLD CASE, TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: CYBORG and TWO-FACE: YEAR ONE for DC Comics. He has contributed to Image's COMIC BOOK TATTOO, POPGUN and 24/7 anthologies.
He is also the only person ever to work for both Charlie Rose and Howard Stern.
Mark's most recent works include GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES for Image Comics and RIFT RAIDERS, the launch book for Kickstart Comics.
Both UNTHINKABLE and HAZED were optioned as feature films.
Upcoming books include DECOY and BLUE SKY for Kickstart.
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August 15, 2024
Quite a mess.
Was allover the place and dissapointing post the first book. It has two face in here while the previous was mostly Harvey Dent.
Too many things happening and randomly intercut.
Very haphazard and even gets outlandish. Nothing remarkable of note to mention after, just that carries on from previous story.
Was allover the place and dissapointing post the first book. It has two face in here while the previous was mostly Harvey Dent.
Too many things happening and randomly intercut.
Very haphazard and even gets outlandish. Nothing remarkable of note to mention after, just that carries on from previous story.
February 29, 2024
Note: This review covers both issues.
-2 Similar to the 1989 Catwoman miniseries, this is a companion piece story for a much more popular Batman tale made years after the original was published and got popular, with no insight from the original creators to make works like these substantial in anyway other than to ride the coattails of a more popular book for quick cash. In this case, Two-Face: Year One is attempting to retell Batman: The Long Halloween from the perspective of lawyer Harvey Dent, and it was so bad I had to read it twice to understand the plot.
This has the basic overview of The Long Halloween down, like Dent’s rise as Two-Face, the signifying trial, and so forth - but it barely tries to follow the storyline regarding anything that isn’t just broad strokes. There is no date at any point to understand when this is set. Why is there a new pattern of murders taking place? How far ahead in time is the second issue? When are these flashbacks set, and how far back? Bruce Wayne is meant to be travelling, isn’t he? Harvey Dent’s assistant Vernon was a mole, not just bribed. Why is that implied when the antagonist Mort Weinstein gives him the antacid? For so many plot problems, it’s like Mark Sable was writing the script based on memory instead of re-reading the main story.
The art was nice - if not a bit inconsistent - which can be attributed to there being two pencillers with variably different artstyles. I did enjoy the ideologies brought up about justice and corruption, that was genuinely interesting, but only scraped the surface. I would have loved to see courtroom Harvey in this, but no. Gotta ruin the good things, so disappointed. Art was okay, the plot was horrible.
[Read and reviewed in July 2022]
-2 Similar to the 1989 Catwoman miniseries, this is a companion piece story for a much more popular Batman tale made years after the original was published and got popular, with no insight from the original creators to make works like these substantial in anyway other than to ride the coattails of a more popular book for quick cash. In this case, Two-Face: Year One is attempting to retell Batman: The Long Halloween from the perspective of lawyer Harvey Dent, and it was so bad I had to read it twice to understand the plot.
This has the basic overview of The Long Halloween down, like Dent’s rise as Two-Face, the signifying trial, and so forth - but it barely tries to follow the storyline regarding anything that isn’t just broad strokes. There is no date at any point to understand when this is set. Why is there a new pattern of murders taking place? How far ahead in time is the second issue? When are these flashbacks set, and how far back? Bruce Wayne is meant to be travelling, isn’t he? Harvey Dent’s assistant Vernon was a mole, not just bribed. Why is that implied when the antagonist Mort Weinstein gives him the antacid? For so many plot problems, it’s like Mark Sable was writing the script based on memory instead of re-reading the main story.
The art was nice - if not a bit inconsistent - which can be attributed to there being two pencillers with variably different artstyles. I did enjoy the ideologies brought up about justice and corruption, that was genuinely interesting, but only scraped the surface. I would have loved to see courtroom Harvey in this, but no. Gotta ruin the good things, so disappointed. Art was okay, the plot was horrible.
[Read and reviewed in July 2022]
August 9, 2025
These Two issues were alright!
A fine telling of Two-Face's origin, and it's a very solid origin, though I've seen his origin play out in quite a few movies and shows, so it's a bit "Been there, done that" for me at this point.
I'd like to read some original Two-Face stories now, to see if there's more to him than just his origin.
3☆ for both issues
A fine telling of Two-Face's origin, and it's a very solid origin, though I've seen his origin play out in quite a few movies and shows, so it's a bit "Been there, done that" for me at this point.
I'd like to read some original Two-Face stories now, to see if there's more to him than just his origin.
3☆ for both issues
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