Rhapsodies

I’m beginning to scrape the bottom of the Magic Tupperware here where I’m just getting the remaining civilians on the list, starting with Harvey Bullock.

When I first came across Harvey in Alan Moore‘s Swamp Thing run where his general lazy and sloppy appearance made him easy to underestimate. I later saw him in other stories as the face of the Gotham Police Department, to make it clear there were other people we knew besides James Gordon. Later he even became a secret agent in DC’s Checkmate title.

It was only with the animated series and doing my own research that I learned he was also originally introduced as a standard corrupt cop.

They’ve been pretty much writing him that way ever since, and conveniently forgot about the checkmate storyline.

For my purposes, I’m pretty much casting him as Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil.