Batman and Robin #23.1: Two Face Review – “Flip a coin, any coin!”

Intro

Here’s another review of villain’s month Batman books. The Batman villain’s books have definitely been alright. It hasn’t really been that spectacular from where I’m coming from. And sadly this is another sort of disappointing book to read. I mean it is interesting read but all it does is progress him to joining the secret society. There’s nothing new we learn from this character. But this book is definitely one of the better Batman books. But it isn’t saying much because most of the Batman books have been really poor this month.

Story

After Two-Face is broken out of Arkham, Scarecrow talks him into joining the Secret Society. But in order to make a firm decision he must be able to protect Gotham at the same time.

The Good

I felt this book was pretty average to me. It was really nothing great to make me love this book. It has really nice art with a lot cool looking splash pages. The beginning of the book was the only real interest because we got his progression of him joining the Secret Society.

The Bad

Everything else just feels like a waste of time. Because after he talks with Scarecrow he just wreaks havoc and starts shooting everything. Don’t get me wrong, the dialogue is great. But I felt we should have learned more about this character of who he was and how he came to be. I rather have them tell us his origin story because we don’t know if anything has changed. We haven’t seen the New 52 origin story of Two Face at all and this would have been a great opportunity to finally see it.  So, I’m hoping he will get more development in Forever Evil.

Verdict

I give this issue a 3.5/7.0 out of 5/10 stars. It has really nice art and detail on the action scenes. But the story falls pretty flat because he just shoots everywhere. It’s an all action story, nothing new to know about the character. It’s just very disappointing because we haven’t had a definitive a story about Two Face besides that short story some time ago in the New 52 at all. The only reason I see picking this book up is the really awesome 3D cover and nice art inside the book. You really won’t miss anything if you skip this book too. Because you see him joining the Secret Society in Forever Evil #1, so it makes the story seem pointless. I believe DC needs to pick it up with the Batman villain’s books. There are just too many disappointing ones in already two weeks.