Misha Collins On The Soup.

Misha Collins on The Soup.

And Joel McHale talking about Misha...

Misha,being Misha. Such a gooood fellow!!

Thank you for this heartwarming reply! I do developed an interest in Harvey’s stories after Misha decided to portray this role. So I’m doing my research via reading DC comics and watching YouTube videos of Two-Face to try to get a better understanding of Harvey. It’s my pleasure to have you as my guide on this fascinating quest. :) To show my admiration toward this character, I made some fanvids and wrote two fanfics (”In the Basement” and “The Man in the Mirror”) for Harvey, his alter ego and Gotham Knights if you’re interested. I tried my best not to be OOC, and based my stories on the foundation of the show and canon DC comics, that’s why this background research is so important to me.  I’m definitely gonna read your recommendations, there’s so much I need to learn and I’m excited for this exploration. Thank you and love you! :)

Hi, I want to read some DC comics about how Harvey transformed from former DA to the criminal mastermind who ruled half of Gotham's Underworld (against the Penguin). I've already read/seen: Two-Face: A Celebration of 75 Years Batman: The Long Halloween Batman: Dark Victory (1999) Batman '89 Batman: The Animated Series Batman: The Audio Adventures

Any other reading recommendations? Thanks a lot for your help. :)

So you're looking for origin stories, or at least ones that shed more light on Two-Face's origin? Well first off, I'm glad you read the 75th Anniversary collection, because that has three of my very favorites: the original Harvey Kent trilogy from 1942-43, the Grace Dent story from Secret Origins Special (1989), and "Eye of the Beholder" from Batman Annual #14 (1990).

Besides those, and the ones you've listed, here are a few others to check out. Some are great, some are mixed bags, and some are downright lousy.

First and foremost, I STRONGLY recommend the 1989 Batman newspaper comic strip, which I loved so much that I posted the whole two-year saga on its own tumblr account. You can start from the very beginning right here, but keep in mind that Harvey's storyline--which runs all the way to the very last strip--doesn't really start until the second arc.

Next, Batman: Dual to the Death by Geary Gravel is a YA novelization of the BTAS origin, seamlessly combined with the two-part Batgirl origin episodes. It improves on both the animated versions in small but crucial ways, and it's highly recommended for BTAS fans. Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to find.

On a similar note, Peter David's movie novelization of Batman Forever can be found more easily, either in used book form or on the Internet Archive, and it's absolutely worth reading. I love the movie of Batman Forever, but it's objectively a terrible take on Harvey. The novelization adds SO MUCH, including an original prequel scene with D.A. Harvey Dent, and his ending is far more satisfying.

Cartoon Network's CGI animated series Beware the Batman (2013) also features a series-long origin arc for Harvey Dent, but it's one of the worst takes I've ever seen on the character. He's a petty, selfish, ambitious little prick, an absolute scumbag, completely devoid of depth or tragedy. Thankfully, few have seen this arc, since the majority of Harvey's episodes were never aired after the series was cancelled, but they're all available to watch for those morbidly curious to see just how badly someone can screw up Harvey as a character.

"The Big Burn" from Batman and Robin, vol 2 #24-28 (2014), also collected in B&R volume 5. After the huge DC reboot, this was Harvey new origin, which tried some very different things with him. A VERY mixed bag, but one that ended in a hugely exciting way that makes the whole thing worth reading. Follow it up with its sequel, "Ugly Heart," from Detective Comics #1020-1024, collected in Detective Comics Vol 5: Joker War.

Finally, watch the entirety of the recently-released/cancelled CW series Gotham Knights, with Misha Collins performing a surprisingly rich, interesting, and flawed Harvey Dent origin arc. The show got a lot of shit, some of it undeserved, but Collins' Harvey was an intriguing surprise, and I fear nothing we see from Harvey in any Reevesverse media will bring half as much care and interest to Harvey as GK did, for better or worse. All 13 episodes can be watched for free on CW Seed, region permitting.

EDIT: Oh right also the Telltale Batman video game! I haven't actually played that yet because I know enough about what happens and the illusion of meaningful choice indicative of Telltale games that I just don't feel like putting myself through that. People seem to like it a lot, though! I just... don't put me in a position of choosing to save either Harvey or Selina if you're just going to cheat and have him go evil anyway.

Time.

I’m at home alone with COVID, which is giving me time to naval-gaze and empty my inbox. In that inbox, I discovered that my friend Alex Gorosh (director of my series RoadFood) sent me this little documentary short on the topic of time.

For some reason, the unfathomable magnitude of space and time has always been a great source of comfort to me. I remember feeling miserable as a teenager and looking up at the stars of the night sky and taking great comfort in the fact that I was just a speck on this tiny blue planet in an ever-expanding universe of quintillions of planets. Looking up at the night sky on a clear night in New England as a kid I could see faint glow of the milky way—hundreds of billions of stars so distant they ceased to be points of light, but together they added up to a dusty smudge of luminosity across the sky—and all of the stars the Milky Way are in our own galaxy! And there are hundreds of billions of stars in hundreds of billions of other galaxies in this universe. To my high school mind all of this comforted me, because how could my little problems ever feel big when held up to the enormity of everything.

I always remember being soothed by the vastness of the universe, but when I was 40, I read “Annals of the Former World,” a tome on geology by John McPhee. The book beautifully illustrated the great expanse of geologic time, which so often exceeds the limits of our comprehension with this simple quote, “Consider the Earth’s history as the old measure of the English yard, the distance from the king’s nose to the tip of his outstretched hand. One stroke of a nail file on his middle finger erases human history.”

When I remember to remember, this too comforts me. The infinitesimally-small-smallness of my troubles helps them fade into nothing. Watching these few minutes on Youtube this morning, it was comforting to see that I am not alone in this perspective on our blink of time in this world. 

https://youtu.be/nOVvEbH2GC0

In My Blood (Fanvid) Lyrics Translation

我的血液中　歌詞英翻中

將自己剪輯的影片，歌詞翻譯成中文，歡迎指正，Enjoy~ :)

—– 1 00:00:33,703 --> 00:00:36,417 ♪ 我是個夢想家　但越來越難以承受 ♪

♪ I'm a dreamer but it's getting hard to take it ♪

2 00:00:36,417 --> 00:00:39,273 ♪ 有些夜晚不知道我能否成功 ♪

♪ Some nights don't know if I'm gonna make it ♪

3 00:00:39,273 --> 00:00:42,802 ♪ 心情沉重　但沒有什麼可以讓我崩潰 ♪

♪ Heart is heavy but there's nothing that can break me down ♪

4 00:00:42,802 --> 00:00:45,055 ♪ （讓我崩潰） ♪

♪ (Break me down, down, down) ♪

5 00:00:45,055 --> 00:00:47,875 ♪ 冷血　如同造就我的外面世界 ♪

♪ Cold blooded, like the world outside that made me ♪

6 00:00:47,875 --> 00:00:50,767 ♪ 從它給我的火焰中明亮閃耀 ♪

♪ Shine bright from the fire that it gave me ♪

7 00:00:50,767 --> 00:00:53,960 ♪ 深吸口氣　覺得現在是時候寫我的故事了 ♪

♪ Breathe in think it's time to write my story now ♪

8 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,148 ♪ （現在寫故事）  ♪

♪ (Story now, now) ♪

9 00:00:55,148 --> 00:00:57,862 ♪ 染血指節　敲打著我的胸口 ♪

♪ Bloody knuckles, got 'em banging on my chest ♪

10 00:00:57,862 --> 00:01:00,736 ♪ 視野狹隘　人們說我太著魔 ♪

♪ Tunnel vision people say that I'm obsessed ♪

11 00:01:00,736 --> 00:01:03,290 ♪ 我是個戰士　與眾不同 ♪

♪ I'm a warrior, I am not like the rest ♪

12 00:01:03,290 --> 00:01:05,667 ♪ 而且我不會退縮 ♪

♪ And I won't back down ♪

13 00:01:05,667 --> 00:01:09,605 ♪ 我的血液中沒有投降二字 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood to surrender ♪

14 00:01:09,605 --> 00:01:11,095 ♪ 我不會折斷 ♪

♪ I won't break ♪

15 00:01:11,095 --> 00:01:13,702 ♪ 我會記住我是誰 ♪

♪ I'll remember who I am ♪

16 00:01:13,702 --> 00:01:17,303 ♪ 面對我的恐懼（恐懼） ♪

♪ In the face of my fear (fear)  ♪

17 00:01:17,303 --> 00:01:19,609 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

18 00:01:19,609 --> 00:01:21,046 ♪ 我堅持不懈 ♪

♪ I'm relentless ♪

19 00:01:21,046 --> 00:01:22,553 ♪ 我不認輸 ♪

♪ I don't quit ♪

20 00:01:22,553 --> 00:01:28,673 ♪ 不會忘記是我的痛苦讓我走到這裡（這裡） ♪

♪ Won't forget this that my pain is what got me right here (here)  ♪

21 00:01:28,673 --> 00:01:31,795 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

22 00:01:31,795 --> 00:01:34,030 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

23 00:01:34,030 --> 00:01:37,719 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

24 00:01:37,719 --> 00:01:41,852 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

25 00:01:41,852 --> 00:01:44,247 ♪ 邁向巔峰的路上我咬牙前進 ♪

♪ Cut my teeth on the road up to the top ♪

26 00:01:44,247 --> 00:01:46,961 ♪ 我保持敏銳　因為磨礪永不停歇 ♪

♪ I stay sharp 'cause the grindin' never stops ♪

27 00:01:46,961 --> 00:01:51,041 ♪ 我目標高遠　且我不想墜落地面 ♪

♪ I aim high and I don't ever wanna hit the ground ♪

28 00:01:51,041 --> 00:01:52,797 ♪ （墜落地面） ♪

♪ (Hit the ground, ground) ♪

29 00:01:52,797 --> 00:01:55,812 ♪ 下雨也無法澆熄 ♪

♪ The rain can't put the fire out ♪

30 00:01:55,812 --> 00:01:58,721 ♪ 我心中烈火正狂暴 ♪

♪ Inside my heart is raging now ♪

31 00:01:58,721 --> 00:02:03,581 ♪ 而且我會讓它燃燒 ♪

♪ And I'm gonna let it burn ♪

32 00:02:03,581 --> 00:02:06,153 ♪ 染血指節　敲打著我的胸口 ♪

♪ Bloody knuckles, got 'em banging on my chest ♪

33 00:02:06,153 --> 00:02:09,346 ♪ 視野狹隘　人們說我太著魔 ♪

♪ Tunnel vision people say that I'm obsessed ♪

34 00:02:09,346 --> 00:02:11,901 ♪ 我是個戰士　與眾不同 ♪

♪ I'm a warrior, I am not like the rest ♪

35 00:02:11,901 --> 00:02:14,455 ♪ 而且我不會退縮 ♪

♪ And I won't back down ♪

36 00:02:14,455 --> 00:02:18,109 ♪ 我的血液中沒有投降二字 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood to surrender ♪

37 00:02:18,109 --> 00:02:19,617 ♪ 我不會折斷 ♪

♪ I won't break ♪

38 00:02:19,617 --> 00:02:22,348 ♪ 我會記住我是誰 ♪

♪ I'll remember who I am ♪

39 00:02:22,348 --> 00:02:26,002 ♪ 面對我的恐懼（恐懼） ♪

♪ In the face of my fear (fear)  ♪

40 00:02:26,002 --> 00:02:28,113 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

41 00:02:28,113 --> 00:02:29,656 ♪ 我堅持不懈 ♪

♪ I'm relentless ♪

42 00:02:29,656 --> 00:02:31,004 ♪ 我不認輸 ♪

♪ I don't quit ♪

43 00:02:31,004 --> 00:02:37,231 ♪ 不會忘記是我的痛苦讓我走到這裡（這裡） ♪

♪ Won't forget this that my pain is what got me right here (here)  ♪

44 00:02:37,231 --> 00:02:40,459 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

45 00:02:40,459 --> 00:02:42,907 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

46 00:02:42,907 --> 00:02:46,507 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

47 00:02:46,507 --> 00:02:50,144 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

48 00:03:01,496 --> 00:03:04,263 ♪ 下雨也無法澆熄 ♪

♪ The rain can't put the fire out ♪

49 00:03:04,263 --> 00:03:07,119 ♪ 我心中烈火正狂暴 ♪

♪ Inside my heart is raging now ♪

50 00:03:07,119 --> 00:03:12,902 ♪ 而且我會讓它燃燒 ♪

♪ And I'm gonna let it burn ♪

51 00:03:12,902 --> 00:03:16,662 ♪ 我的血液中沒有投降二字 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood to surrender ♪

52 00:03:16,662 --> 00:03:18,223 ♪ 我不會折斷 ♪

♪ I won't break ♪

53 00:03:18,223 --> 00:03:20,813 ♪ 我會記住我是誰 ♪

♪ I'll remember who I am ♪

54 00:03:20,813 --> 00:03:24,396 ♪ 面對我的恐懼（恐懼） ♪

♪ In the face of my fear (fear)  ♪

55 00:03:24,396 --> 00:03:26,755 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

56 00:03:26,755 --> 00:03:28,174 ♪ 我堅持不懈 ♪

♪ I'm relentless ♪

57 00:03:28,174 --> 00:03:29,575 ♪ 我不認輸 ♪

♪ I don't quit ♪

58 00:03:29,575 --> 00:03:35,819 ♪ 不會忘記是我的痛苦讓我走到這裡（這裡） ♪

♪ Won't forget this that my pain is what got me right here (here)  ♪

59 00:03:35,819 --> 00:03:39,030 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

60 00:03:39,030 --> 00:03:41,336 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

61 00:03:41,336 --> 00:03:44,919 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

62 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:47,384 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

63 00:03:47,384 --> 00:03:50,808 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

64 00:03:50,808 --> 00:03:53,007 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

65 00:03:53,007 --> 00:03:56,449 ♪ 它不在我的血液中 ♪

♪ It isn't in my blood ♪

66 00:03:56,449 --> 00:04:00,191 ♪ 哇　喔　喔 ♪

♪ Whoa, oh oh ♪

—–

BGM: The Score - In My Blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zc4EjdYHjk

I Want to Find a Two-Face Comic

I remember that I've seen a comic scanned pic, which shows that Harvey hugs Two-Face and tells him: "I need you." Does anybody know what DC comic the pic belongs to? I want to read the story. Thank you! :)