Harvey Dent is Two-Face

Word on the street is the Two-Face is the character to watch in the upcoming Nolan sequel. That's exciting. Thanks to several writers and arcs throughout the 1980s, Two-Face became a very troubled, complex, and tragic person. He is in many ways a kind of Bizarro Bruce Wayne, only instead of carrying his scars internally, he carries them externally on his face. You get the sense often that there's a bit of randomness in each person's decisions to pursue their vocations as villain and hero - that had only 1 or 2 things been different, they'd be on different sides. That's because it's as much madness as it is committment and idealism that makes Batman do the things he does. And that's why Frank Miller tended to hint at the similarities in stories like Batman: Year One, in which he shows us Dent meeting with Batman secretly in his office before his face was scarred. They understand one another, and were at one point comrades who needed and helped the other to achieve their stated goal of justice at any cost. It's time that someone told Two-Face's story, and I'm grateful it's Nolan.