{"id":41,"date":"2007-03-04T19:16:50","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T19:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-03-30T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T07:42:31","slug":"batman-face-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/04\/batman-face-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Face the Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bmfthef.jpg\" title=\"Batman: Face the Face\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bmfthef.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: Face the Face\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>James Robinson<\/strong>, <strong>Don Kramer<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Leonard Kirk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-377-7<\/p>\n<p>After the never-ending calamity of DC&#8217;s <strong>Infinite Crisis<\/strong> event, the company re-set the time line of all their publications to begin one year later. This enabled them to refit their characters as they saw fit, provide a jumping on point for new converts and also give themselves some narrative wiggle-room.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Face the Face<\/strong> Batman and Robin return to Gotham after a year&#8217;s absence. Why and where they went is unknown, but in their place as protector of the city they left arch criminal and literal head-case Two-Face. Although nobody&#8217;s safe choice for a hero, the ex-villain has done a sterling job of crime-crushing, so why has he seemingly returned to his old ways of murder and mayhem now?<\/p>\n<p>As a number of small-fry super-criminals are killed in Two-Face&#8217;s signature style, Batman and Robin must either prove a frame up, or catch a man they thought they had reformed. Naturally there&#8217;s more to this than at first appears and new tragedy lurks around every corner. In Gotham City, nobody ever gets away clean.<\/p>\n<p>Tightly plotted, and well illustrated, this nonetheless reads more like a private eye thriller than a tale of the towering and tormented Dark Knight that we&#8217;ve all come to know. Is that a portent in itself? Fans should, naturally, keep tuned\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By James Robinson, Don Kramer &amp; Leonard Kirk (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-377-7 After the never-ending calamity of DC&#8217;s Infinite Crisis event, the company re-set the time line of all their publications to begin one year later. This enabled them to refit their characters as they saw fit, provide a jumping on point for new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/04\/batman-face-the-face\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman: Face the Face&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-dc-superhero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}