2. He Broke Into The Batcave (And Attacked Grayson Again)
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In the wake of Bruce Wayne's death came Batman: Reborn, a new era of Bat-books that spotlighted a whole new kind of Bat-family, with Dick Grayson under the cape and cowl as the Caped Crusader and Damian Wayne taking on the role of a new Robin.
Potentially one of the more overlooked books from that era is Judd Winick and Mark Bagley's Long Shadows, a short-lived series that showed Dick adjusting and settling into his new role as the Dark Knight. Few notice that anything has changed, but Two-Face does, realising that this new Batman has a tendency to smile when the previous one didn't.
Hatching a plan to prove this deception, Two-Face breaks into the Batcave and catches the new Batman off guard. He then proceeds to torture him, during which time Dick hallucinates visions of Two-Face in his own Batsuit.
Fortunately Alfred comes to the rescue, but the pair still have a hard time convincing Harvey that Dick is the original Dark Knight.
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.
