Batman: The Long Halloween is one of the greatest Batman stories ever told, and one that has managed to stand the test of time. Set during the second year of Bruce Wayne's crimefighting career, it focuses on the triumvirate of Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent as they take on Gotham's criminal underworld. Complicating matters somewhat is the emergence of several supervillains, with the Joker taking a particular interest in Dent and his family.
The Long Halloween retold Dent's origin as Two-Face, and it was made even more heartbreaking by the fact he had a wife who was desperate to start a family with her husband.
Gilda Dent may have had a hand in the Holiday Killer's rampage, but she managed to pull her life back together after the event and re-married. Dent, jealous at her newfound love, kidnapped her husband and performed a mock disfiguration. Batman intervenes, and Gilda later gives birth to twins, but the book - titled Two-Face Strikes Twice - actually reveals that the children Harvey's all along.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
