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Iconic horror manga creator Junji Ito has inspired this new DC Comics rendition of Batman villain Two-Face by Artgerm

The body horror and sense of wrongness in the piece is unlike any portrait of Two-Face we've ever seen.

Artgerm Two Face Variant Cover Header — Image credit: DC Comics

News by Trent Cannon, Senior Contributing writer

Published on Fri May 30 2025

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When you think of Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau’s work, you probably picture one of DC or Marvel’s iconic heroines, right? Even the artist himself agrees that he enjoys drawing “hot chicks” but he’s not afraid to try other things to stretch himself as an artist. One challenge he undertook was giving us one of the most surreal and frightening renditions of Batman villain Two-Face, a piece that saw Artgerm look to iconic horror manga creator Junji Ito for inspiration.

Artgerm Two Face Variant Cover — Image credit: DC Comics

The cover in question is for Batman: One Bad Day – Two-Face #1 and it is pretty easy to see the Junji Ito influence there. “I was asked to do a Two-Face from DC,” Artgerm explained during his panel at MCM Comic Con 2025.

“And usually when people interpret Two-Face [he] would be half-and-half, right? So, I want to make something slightly different. I want to make his other half of his personality manifest as his own.”

Artgerm was very forthright about where the inspiration for the piece came from. “It was originally inspired by Junji Ito’s work… so I could make it look [like] a demon itself.”

There is certainly an element of the body horror that Junji Ito is known for, with the scarred portion of Two-Face lifting away like an evil spirit escaping his body. The proportions are all intentionally wrong – giving a sense that this shouldn’t exist. It is unlike any portrait of Two-Face we’d ever seen before or since, which is exactly what makes Artgem’s work so collectible.

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