The Mask Of Emptiness gives the emptiness a face whereas Aycharaych's "'Masks within masks...'" (p. 503) conceal his face.
Flandry thinks:
"I see in my mirror the specter of him. Though who of us is flesh and who image?" (pp. 503-504)
A plastic surgeon has fixed Harvey Dent's face but not his soul -
Caption: The scars go deep, too deep...
Caption: I close my eyes and listen.
Caption: Not fooled by sight, I see him...
Dent: Have your laugh, Batman - - take a look!
Caption: ...as he is.
He sees both sides of Dent's face scarred.
Dent: ...take a look...
Caption: I see him. I see...
The Batman: ...I see...a reflection, Harvey.
The Batman sees the Bat from the Cave.
The Batman: A reflection.
They embrace as a bat flies past.
-Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns (London, 1986), BOOK ONE, p. 47, panels 2-10.
By different routes to the same destination: the villain reflects the hero.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Not directly relevant to these comments of yours, we see a man badly scarred in face and soul in Anderson's story "The Visitor."
Ad astra! Sean
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