Once she injects the Riddler: "I'm no longer the Riddler. Call me...THE ANSWERER!"

A seductive, animal-themed villainess in a fanservice outfit wants Batman to chase her? Do we not already have Catwoman for that?

A woman dressed like a white rabbit, and she's not working for Mad Hatter? That just doesn't make sense.

Maybe White Rabbit disappeared because Scarecrow and Mad Hatter dragged her to villain court for gimmick plagiarism.

They wasted potential naming him One-Face instead of Big Bad Harv.

Alfred: "Sir, there is a villain called the White Rabbit? Do you think it's a connection to the Mad Hatter?" Batman: "You forget Alfred, this is a New 52 comic! So it must be Poison Ivy!"

"One face" sounds like a Robot Chicken joke

Y'know when hearing the name "One-Face", I was _expecting_ Harvey's face to be completely scarred over, with absolutely no sign of his original personality left. ...this was _so_ much worse.

I've been watching episodes out of order and bouncing around and until now I just assumed the "One Face" running gag was a reference to a silly joke Linkara made and not a real thing that happened in a real comic book.

Arkham Asylum rioting with beefed up criminals, a beefed up Joker, a reveal that Joker was actually Clayface... Who's suddenly in the mood for the Arkham games?

"I want to date someone who is better than you Bruce, what's Superman number?" SHOTS FIRED!

"Okay, I've never heard of this, how bad can it be--" (sees "One-Face") "NOPE!"

Hearing some of this dialogue I kinda wish it was Frank Miller writing. Because then we could HAVE Linkara talking LIKE Frank MILLER'S Batman. About how FEAR is a CANNIBAL. A CANNIBAL. Not something for a DETECTIVE! Something like that MORON in METROpolis would HAVE. A MORON. And I'm a DETECTIVE.

And now, my impression of Hank Hill as a DC Executive "I sell Batman and Batman accessories"

Also, why would Clayface need the serum? I understand with the other villains since they don't have any superpowers to begin with. But Clayface doesn't need a power boost, he's Clayface! He's already a hulking monster to begin with!

"This is why we can't have kids getting into comic books" I actually found out about this when working at a middle school. A parent dropped it off for her son's presentation or some such; after flipping through it before the kid picked it up, I handed it to him and told him "there's much better Batman out there" This is what the kids are reading these days.

Ok... you can't make an "Alice in Wonderland" themed villain and not link them to the Mad Hatter. Also: This was probably the dumbest premise for a story ever imagined. I mean.. what could the endgame of WR possibly be? All she does is slightly buff a villain for a little while and leave. Scarecrow at least took notes when he released fear gas.

not afraid of anything, except Snakes, Clowns, and Snake Clowns

Good thing the continuity alarm is dismantled and left at the old apartment, because the new 52 would drive it wild.

"DC was trying to turn everyone into Batman." *remembers Man of Steel That seemed to apply to the movies, too.

After Two-Face becomes doused in even more acid, he goes from One-Face to No Face. And then he inexplicably goes to Japan and becomes friends with a little girl in the Spirit World.

I remember the 75th anniversary, where Bruce Wanye Batman was in SEVEN books as a main or supporting character. All Batman was missing back then was the adamantium claws.

"She has some weird power to duplicate herself into a Caucasian lady in her underwear." ...and somehow still not the dumbest superpower known to comics.

I hate what the venom drug has become over the years. Back when Bane kicked his addiction to it immediately after Knightfall, the drug's effects on users weren't nearly as overthetop as they're so often depicted nowadays, and an un-venomed Bane and Batman were both able to take on a whole gang of venom-using thugs without breaking a sweat. Bane was already a mountain of muscle and fighting skill, and he didn't actually need the (very minor) upgrade in strength to beat Batman originally. LITERALLY the only purpose venom served was for Bane's addiction to be an achilles heal to exploit at the conclusion and cause him to go into a withdrawal freakout. That was a weakness that he saw in himself afterwards and purged... until more and more artists and writers over time just kind of forgot about that character development, and eventually him using venom just became the norm again without an in-universe explanation and Gail Simone finally had to address it in Secret Six and give him a whole new different motivation to quit the drug. And as a result of all of that, we had adaptations of Bane and venom in other media that went bananas with the degree to which it enhances users (I suppose hearing the phrase "strength enhancing drug," the natural instinct might be to assume it has effects that are more extreme than venom's original depiction), creating the impression over the years for a much wider audience that it has a Hulk effect, which in turn bled right back into the comics where we would then get stories like this and Bane's wonderful appearance in the upcoming issues. :/ Writers can give out some BS and say the formula has been upgraded as much as they want; when venom starts being depicted as a drug that turns people from Bruce Banner into the grotesquely muscled Hulk towering over opponents at superhuman size, it's something entirely different. But I guess for a lot of readers and fans, that's simply what venom is now, regardless of how it started out..

As a fan of Damian Wayne along with the fact that he is my favorite Robin, that little portrayal of him in this story really angers me. As Linkara pointed out, Damian is very boastful, brash, and arrogant, so much so that he makes his own father who is also pretty brash and arrogant look calm and collected in comparison. Damian would never have that look of fear in his eyes and suggest that they should get help, he is so confident in his skills that he believes that he could take them all on by himself. While most of the time Damian can back up his arrogance because he is really that talented of a fighter, he usually gets into trouble because he believes he can do everything on his own and asking for help would be seen as a weakness. While Damian has indeed calmed down a lot when it comes to his arrogance, it is still there and it will probably never fully go away.

this is like a frank miller comic even though he isn't involved.

Reviewer: "It's just awesome how mind-bogglingly bad this comic is. Save your sanity and skip this crap!" Review quote in comic's cover: _"It's just awesome" - Famous review website_

"You've got the backstory out of the way now RUN!!" That was an awesome clip XD

According to Batman Beyond, Bruce's inside voice really does call him "Batman."

Super muscled Two-Face? Ok, its stupid but not without precedent, what with the Arkham games and all. Calling himself "One Face" when he still has two faces? WHY?!?!

a joke between goons in Batman arkham city is that cat woman clawed off the pretty half of his face and is calling himself one face. The sad part is that the joke is less stupid than the comic as two face would have a fully scared face making him one face.

Lewis, I love your "Squint and shrug with one arm while shaking your head" motion.

The sad thing is, I feel like this storyline had potential. Call me crazy, but I like the idea of a villain who can create a duplicate of herself with different features is pretty cool and COULD have been a nifty trick to keep her identity a secret. Additionally, the idea that she's an adrenaline junky with a fetish for being chased is pretty unique character motivation. It's kind a rip-off of Catwoman, but without the anti-heroism Selina's developed (or had developed) over the years. I could've dug it.

You have a White Rabbit villain...and you don't pair them up with Mad Hatter? It would've been so easy to make her Mad Hatter's version of Harley Quinn or something, but no, the author couldn't put two and two together in his own writing.

I have no problem with the fanservice, but she's still kind of a wasted concept. She dresses like a sexy bunny and gives out... super steroids? That seems kind of unrelated. If they wanted to keep the sexy theme for her, then why not have her using some sort of highly addictive love potion? She and her goons addict and enthrall various people in positions of power like politicians, businessmen, police officers, and crime bosses to gain control of gotham. Hell I think I did something like that myself in story idea some time ago. Also, there's apparently no relation to mad hatter?

A Woman? Preposterous! i think you've been reading one too manga, Lewis. A Woman existing...bah

I’m guessing the Batman over saturation was due to the huge success of the Nolan films, especially since the Dark Knight Rises came out the year after The New 52 launched.

So, she can duplicate herself into a Caucasian? Worst. Power. Ever.

Lol that part about Damian Wayne was so right on the nail, that it made me laugh because how right it is.

"Remember that name you all had for me...back when I was working at Internal Affairs?" "Yeah I..." "Say it" "Uh..." "SAY IT" "It was One Face. Harvey One Face!" "..." "..." " Well that's just stupid."

I dunno, making Joker into a Titan mutant back in the Arkham Asylum videogame was pretty god damn stupid. if anything, making Harvey into a behemoth is on par with that in terms of stupidity

THE WHITE RABBIT! A woman in a sexy halloween outfit! BUT WAIT! I've Just been to the Spirit Halloween Store and have some more INSPIRATION! How about, THE NURSE! Or maybe, THE FRENCH MAID! THE NU 52! Where Imagination STOPS!

White rabbit is the result of one of the writers expressing their chasing fetish

so her Job is to raise my Dark Knight? Mission accomplished

Okay, so well it might be a stretch but the white rabbit motif combined with the notion of the chase is really calling up Alice in wonderland, so could the idea be that the white rabbit leads people to a world without fear, but also without reason. Or am I trying too hard to find a justification for what is clearly a playboy bunny being cast as a villain? Wait...Shitty inner monologues, over-the-top violent action scenes, poor excuses to have scantly clad female characters, hulked out characters on every other page? Holy shit Rob Liefeld is ghost writing for DC!

Yes. Cleary the fear removing properties is clearly the most dangerous aspect of the drug. Not the 'side-effect' of turning people into Hulks...

Fear can also appear as a clown and trap you inside of stasis tubes, only for Captain Janeway to come in and beat it.

Everytime Linkara plays Weird Al, an angel gains wings.

If the comic was smart, they'd have a whole wonderland roster: Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, and Chesire

Two-Face: "You can call me One-Face now!" Batman: "Whatever you say, One-Face Now!"

This is probably one of the dumber Batman stories we've seen on this show in a long time. White Rabbit not being linked to Mad Hatter, One-face, dialogue about past events we were never told about and plot points that go no where. Hopefully you come back to this in the future!!!

I really wanted a beefy version of Calendar Man who calls himself Leg Day.

The Batman over-saturation continues in the new films, given several upcoming movies are about him or characters close to him.

Seems like the Clay Face reveal was in reference to Arkham City.

admittedly Anti-Villain Poison Ivy sounds like an interesting idea. Also this explains Matt's comment about One Face in his and Woolie's LP of the Telltale Batman game.

It looks like I'm having cheesecake for breakfast ...

13:28 A CollegeHumor clip? It works, but I would have gone with the Robot Chicken clip. "You can call me... Three Face!"

Thank you for addressing the Batman oversaturation. I stopped following Batman due to the over saturation I always said, one thing Marvel does better than DC is that they are able to get heroes on somewhat equal popularity these days. Now yes there was a time Wolverine was in every team and had a solo series and was in every X-Men book but even that turned down and Linkara mentioned like 4 Spider-Man

Rag-doll and the Ventriloquist are not well known and I know them. That's a first. I remember them from The Batman. The cartoon I grew up on.

Anyone else think that Damian is way more arrogant than his father?

I think one of the reasons why I started to prefer manga over comic books is because of the latter's lack of continuity. Dragonball aside, choices have consequences in non-comedic manga, and storylines are often set up over many years which makes the pay off all the more sweeter when you realise all of the delicate pieces that the author had put in place for you to find. With comic books on the other hand most storylines are usually done and dusted in six issues or less, actions are forgotten in short order except for some particularly rare occasions, and characters almost never stay dead which means that it is impossible to build any emotional connection to snuffed characters because you know that give it a few years and they'll be back. That is not to say that I don't love comics because I do. In fact just ten minutes ago I finished re-reading ''Hush'' for the tenth time. I just think that manga is the only product of the two that is worth the increasingly extortionate asking price.

The retirement line regarding Joker was referencing the events of Detective Comics #1 (though in a rather clumsy way). Joker had his face cut off and disappeared untill his return in Scott Snyder's Death of the Family (which I love, personally). Batman knew Joker had purposefully gotten Dollmaker to cut his face before disappearing and knew Joker had chosen to disappear, so he'd be surprised to see him around so soon.

This was legitimately the first book of The New 52 I ever bought. That was years ago and I still want my money back.

You know, the second issue of this series had a weird solicit info: Something sinister surges through Arkham Asylum, and Batman finds himself bombarded by his greatest foes in this second sensational issue from superstar creator David Finch!Bigger, meaner, and more powerful than ever before, the inmates of Arkham Asylum run rampant as the entire Bat Family struggles to keep the walls from falling down, unleashing Gotham City's worst criminals on the unsuspecting population. And you won't believe the jaw-dropping final page! Just keep repeating, "It's only a comic book. It's only a comic book..." ...why would the ending of issue two with a roided up Joker scare us?

I like the use of Weird Al's Polka Face in the intro title card to allude to One-Face.

So like...ya'll get this White Rabbit charatcer is a drug reference right? Ever here "chasing the dragon"? "chasing the white rabbit" is another take on that phrase. So this character? It's just a reference to that, The White Rabbit injecting people with mind altering drugs and telling Batman to chase her. (I mention it because I didn't see anyone mentioning. Though the complaint about not having her connected to Mad Hatter is fiar, since she makes refereces to Alice in Wonderland.)

Well, Lewis, the entire logistics thing -- you forget that every time Batman lost Gordon's support, it took less than a day for Batman to get wrecked by Gotham PD.

Jeffrey Combs as Scarecrow is sheer weapons-grade nightmare fuel. His design is terrifying. He looks like an Old West preacher who's returned as an undead. And that voice! Combs dials the calm but menacing up to eleven. It is really creepy.

Ugh what the new 52 did to Freeze...was just horrible. It seams like both Marvel and DC have done stupid things recently. Also I wouldn't be surprised if they did stick with giant two-face. Remember we have Hydra agent from the start CA, As well as Magneto joining hydra for some stupid reason.

Did this comic come out before or after the arkham asylum game, because this whole super buff batman villian plot point seem to kind of similar?

At this point, I think instead of "Wolverine Publicity", we should start calling it "Bat Publicity".

Linkara Hates New 52 As Much As I Hate Ultimate Marvel Comics

If you really think about, don't we all have one face?

13:18 Oh, so that's where the One-Face joke came from..... ....I THOUGHT LINKARA WAS JOKING THIS ENTIRE TIME......WHHYYYYYYYYY

Yyyyeah, as much as I love Batman and see Rebirth as an improvement over the New 52, there's a similar issue going on: Over-saturation of Batman. He has his own solo book, Detective Comics, All-Star Batman, is in Justice League, JLA, and Trinity, frequently cameos in books starring other Gotham-related characters, and is a recurring character in the Superman solo because of his team-ups with Supes and Superboy's team-up with Robin.

Now we know why the Hatter hired March Harriet instead of this weird playboy criminal.

One Face? That makes absolutely no sense! Why don't you just call yourself Evil Face or Bad Face? Two Face had context to why it worked, one does not!

4 years late, I admit. But something confuses me now. Given the whole "Fear" speech at the start of issue one, wouldn't you think the villain of this storyline would have been Scarecrow instead of a woman in a playboy bunny outfit?

19:44 I think it could've been amusing if Nightwing said "Are you serious?" After Damian said they're gonna need backup. And Damian said "Nah. I'm just kidding".

That clip of Kickassia near the 6 minute mark makes me remember I actually have a dvd copy of that adventure and makes me want to watch it

Okay DC, if the super beefy Joker didn't work out that well in the Arkham Asylum game, what in God's name makes you think it's going to work here?

What a coincidence! I fully watched "Never Fear" for the first time just *yesterday*! Yeah, a great episode that teaches how complete lack of fear can be just as bad as "Your-Heart-Going-120-Per-Minute" fear.

"I'll find you and you'll never see me coming." I was honestly expecting Linkara to start playing Last Surprise at that point

Breaking- one-face has teamed up with rock-and-roll, ancient Egypt, bees and marijuana to form the greatest association of batman’s enemies yet

The Batmobile in this comic looks like someone took the '89 Tim Burton film one and the Tumbler from Nolan's trilogy, and tried to merge them.

There WAS a White Rabbit in the Return of Superman/Reign of the Supermen arc.

13:48 Honestly, considering how dumb the New 52 can get, I don’t blame people at all for being paranoid and thinking DC might make One-Face the new status quo

'Does not contain One-Face' should be a quote for the next Batman comic, given they care so little about context. XD

RIP Kevin Conroy the best Batman voice

I agree with you the vanqultist believes scarface is alive and shouldn't refer to him as a doll. He should call him mr. Scarface or boss.

I just listened to this and the opening to his Blackest Night review at the same time and they synced up SO WELL I didn't notice until the Blackest Night Lewis took a pause.

Wait, White Rabbit? Alice? *GASP* Of course she's an associate of the Mad Hatter! Who wants to create a whole bunch of Hulked out Batman villains!...For some reason!...No one's really explained that exactly!

im guessing the first issue was kinda trying to recapture the feelings of the arkham games especially since arkham city was the newest one at the time but that forgotten as the title progressed

"One face"....

I, someone who does not read comics, had heard of one-face. I always assumed that Harvey got his face fixed and decided to change his name. The truth is so much worse than I could have possibly imagined.

"It's a new reality show. Sixty-five families each have to adopt a grown man." Is it bad that I actually think that'd be a funny concept?

Meanwhile at Marvel with Secret Empire: Hydra Cap lifts Thor's Hammer.

The funny thing is I think Marvel's white rabbit is better, in every regard.

Aaaa a linkara video on my birthday! A good day

26:38 I am the day! I thought you were the night? I jumped so high I time travelled into the morning!