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zechs27 (zechs27) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-31 23:52:00

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char: no-face/alessio morandi, creator: david hine, event: battle for the cowl, publisher: dc comics

No-Face's Origin
Someone requested scans of Battle for the Cowl: Arkham Asylum #1. Well here they are. But more specifically the origin of No-Face. So let's all put on a happy face!

Not the first time I've posted on Scans Daily. You might recall my Goblin posts namely of the Hobgoblin. Oh yes that was me. Anycase I bring you the most tragic tale of the three "special" in-mates at Arkham Asylum that where introduced in the Battle for the Cowl special. I bring you the origin of No-Face:

So Dr. Arkham gets the other two free as well. A dude who loves mirrors and a woman who has a face so hideous it'll make you go nuts. But they don't have the impact as No-Face's origin does. And as for the finale. Well let's just say you're left with the feeling No-Face is so gonna waste his cell-mates and the good doctor in about thirty seconds with his "new face".

And now for you're viewing pleasure. I dare you to play this while reading the four pages:

Anyway I hope you enjoyed this little origin. And here's hoping I didn't screw up like my first try in the original scans daily. Oh God remember that? What was that like thirteen pages uncut before I fixed it? Eep! God I hope I got it right this time.

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	sinisterlink 2009-06-01 02:57 am UTC (link)
	His dad must have been pretty darn strong. How hard would you have to pull to rip someone's entire face off? Yeesh. Out of curiosity, what kind of face does he give himself at the end? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yaseen101 2009-06-01 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Kid must have used super glue. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-06-01 11:22 am UTC (link)
	Iirc, he looked like the Joker? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-06-01 11:34 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, pretty much at the end Arkham tells him to put on a happy face. So he paints his face to look like the Joker and then joins his fellow freaks. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-06-01 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	The Heath Ledger version, it was. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yaseen101 2009-06-01 03:28 am UTC (link)
	Since I am the one that requested this, I would like to thank you for posting these. (Reply to this)

brilliantnova
2009-06-01 04:05 am UTC (link)

Clue 1 dad, the mask is not coming off.
Clue 2, Alessio was crazy before he lost his face
superglueing a mask to his face. Wait what!
No
So the damage was so extensive , it messed with his facial muscles.
So Dad did not notice that the mask was not budging :/
WATTTT

And the glue was that strong???
I.... I...This.. *walks away*

Then again, this falls into perfect classic Batman campiness. So looking at this from that POV. Well then, Ok *thumbs up* for original camp origin.

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sinisterlink
2009-06-01 05:11 am UTC (link)

See, I could get behind the having a REALLY strong glue and when the mask was ripped off it took some skin off with it, but it's the way it is shown that is really odd. I mean, that picture of him right after the mask is ripped off makes it look like almost all of the flesh on his face was yanked off. Even his nose is almost totally gone. Like I said before, his dad must have Superman strength or something to rip off that much of his face.

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	sinisterlink 2009-06-01 05:17 am UTC (link)
	I don't know why, but I read "No-Face" in the title and all I could think of was Great White Shark and his whole, "Oh Noes, my face is frozen to the floor" thing from the Arkham Asylum: Living Hell series. Good times. (Reply to this)

	angelophile 2009-06-01 05:39 am UTC (link)
	ow ow ow. (Reply to this)

	jlroberson 2009-06-01 06:29 am UTC (link)
	Okay, this...makes no sense and is grotesquely stupid. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-06-01 06:33 am UTC (link)
	The fact he's born into an Italian family, and is disfigured following an incident with a mask, reminds me too much of Black Mask (Who isn't Italian, but does have the name "Roman" :) ) It's an interesting character trait, but not sure it's enough to make an interesting villain, if that's what he turns out to be... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-06-01 09:02 am UTC (link)
	And a last name of Sionis. Are you sure he's not Italian? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-06-01 09:26 am UTC (link)
	No moreso than Helena Bertinelli! :) (I also wasn't sure whether Sionis was even Italian) He's listed as being from a wealthy Gotham family, so I'm guessing Italian roots, but was probably born in America (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-06-01 09:35 am UTC (link)
	Okay, granted. Sometimes I do think of [heritage]-American as [heritage]. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-06-01 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	Wait a second..."Roman..." Is Black Mask related to THE Roman? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thandrak 2009-06-01 06:38 am UTC (link)
	Well, that's a second 60s villain updated, after King Tut. http://www.tv.com/batman-1966/true-or-false-face/episode/6152/summary.html Yes, False Face had a comics appearance, but only one. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-06-01 09:30 am UTC (link)
	Nope, this is No-Face, not False-Face. False-Face was never in the comics, but an actual Dr No-Face showed up in Detective 319 (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-06-01 11:24 am UTC (link)
	I was thinking more 'modern update of concept' than 'exact same character'. ... and... http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_Vol_1_113 Never say never. :) But yes, it could be No-Face as well. Either way, refresh of a 60s villain. Really depends on how they run it, but the masks reminded me of False-Face more than No-Face. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-06-01 12:14 pm UTC (link)
	I stand humbly corrected... :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nagaoka 2009-06-01 07:34 am UTC (link)
	Ah Ah Ah Oh wait wrong No Face (Reply to this) (Thread)

	meatwhichdreams 2009-06-02 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	Ha, that was my first thought too! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	crinosg 2009-06-01 07:57 am UTC (link)
	Personally, I'd prefer to see the Hamburger Lady's origins. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	thormonger 2009-06-01 08:20 am UTC (link)
	Did someone actually make a comic character named Hamburger Lady, or are you referring to the one referred to in the Throbbing Gristle song of the same name? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-06-01 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/405903.html Under "AT LARGE" (under Peyton Riley, the new ventriloquist). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-06-01 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	Possibly related to Meathead, the guy made completely out of minced meat who showed up in The Last Laugh crossover in Nightwing? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-06-03 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	Actually she's supposed to be an actress who went to work with Lepers, and the Leprosy ate her face away. She's supposed to be so ugly she drives anyone who see's her face insane. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-06-03 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	Jeez... that scores a pretty high value on the tasteless-ometer. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-06-01 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	That was the name of the first story in Pat Mills & Carlos Ezquerra's THIRD WORLD WAR. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thormonger 2009-06-02 05:31 am UTC (link)
	So at least two different uses of the name. How weird. As I'm unfamiliar with either, I suppose the song will remain what comes to mind. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-06-02 05:51 am UTC (link)
	But in 3rdWW, it was a reference to a character's protest of a fast food chain coming in as a spearhead of a kind of colonialism. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-06-01 10:05 am UTC (link)
	Wow, Oedipal much? That scene in the parents' bedroom couldn't get more Freudian if it had a cigar. (Reply to this)

	sistermagpie 2009-06-01 11:24 am UTC (link)
	Seems like this was, like, super seeping-into-the-skin glue. Because that mask should not have been superglued to his muscles. Still think the Twilight Zone Masks story was a bit better, but I agree with the poster above about the aweome Oedipal-ness to that bedroom scene. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-06-01 01:54 pm UTC (link)
	that mask should not have been superglued to his muscles. Perhaps it's just that most of No-Face's skin got torn off, and they couldn't reconnect the muscles to whatever skin grafts they had to use? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sistermagpie 2009-06-01 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	That would probably explain why his face just doesn't have expression. (Reply to this) (Parent)