Oh, Zinda....

[bluefall]

Four pages from this week's BATMAN: CONFIDENTIAL, and the continuing saga of Batman vs old Blackhawk enemies.




Brief recap: some majorly high-tech plane engines have been stolen by an old enemy of the Blackhawks. Blackhawk's body is also missing. Zinda actually gets a sort of nice moment here when Bruce says "he'll use the engines to make superplanes" and Zinda rattles off all the other high tech stuff he'd also need, proving she does inded know her stuff as a pilot, but it's a bit irrelevant since obviously Bruce has already figured all this out and has them en route to the old Blackhawk Island. (With Zinda flying, and yet she seems surprised when they get there.)

At the island, Bruce tells Zinda to circle the plane. Zinda, for some reason, makes a halfhearted, pretty childish protest, calls him "worse than Huntress" (not Helena, mind) as he jumps down onto the island, and then quietly follows him on her own, hoping he won't be mad.





Jesus, this guy. Look, again, DC, that is not how evil!Zinda worked. She was not Shark's loyal half-mindless devoted lover. She was a conniving badass supervillain who actually took over Shark's operation for herself on at least one occasion. Do some fucking research and stop trying to retcon Zinda into a passive traumatized victim.



Aaaaand that's the full extent of their fight.

Meanwhile Batman finds the supposed corpse of Blackhawk, finds out it's... not Blackhawk, and has a video chat with the bad guy.



.... you stay classy, DC.

Oh, and the bad guy is, predictably, apparently Blackhawk himself. Wait, I'm wrong, the scene just reads that way at first because the writing is shitty and Bruce raids Blackhawk's house and beats up on and extorts information out of his employees as to his whereabouts. Whatever, McGraw. At this point I don't even care.

Comments

[jaybee3]

Is that Greg Land-ish porn-face I see in that one panel. Ugh. Not on Lady Blackhawk, please. No. Just no.

And what's worse a Zinda/BruceBatman team-up could have been a very good. Two more opposing personalities you're not likely to see elsewhere in DC.

[foxhack]

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND?

Seriously what the hell is up with this art. BLARGH.

[thebigapricot]

You know the only research they did was flipping through the issues of BoP where Shark came back. If they even did that. Probably just googled Zinda and King Shark and took what showed up.

She's still pretty cute though.

[scottyquick]

I really, really fucking miss Birds of Prey.

[sailorlibra]

The worst part is that in some panels it looks okay and then in the next one, it's serious bleck. Like Land, but not as good at tracing, so the faces look deformed. Especially the mouths, which do not seem to fit with the rest of the face at all.

[sailorlibra]

This. Though mostly I miss Simone's BoP.

[foxhack]

I'm going to pretend that's Red Lantern Zinda in the preview image.

Yeah. That's the ticket.

[foxhack]

I remember someone mentioning another issue of Batman looking like Poser images?

They were wrong. THIS looks like Poser.

[bluefall]

Zinda was the last holdout, too. Every single one of them has now been regressed or chickified.

If I were Kate, I'd be thanking my lucky stars to have that backup.

(Though I'm beginning to be cautiously positive about Babs again, now that BQM seems done with the Vanhook bullshit.)

[tsunamiwombat]

So much for the hope of seeing Zinda being badass...

[mad]

Hahaha, you beat me to posting this.

[mad]

Yup.

[mad]

Yes, this.

[promethea4]

This. So freaking much.

[gargoylekitty]

Motto.

[majingojira]

I need an Icon of Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures saying "MUST DO RESEARCH!"

Because that's what he'd say to this!

AIIYA! MUST DO RESEARCH!.

[alcimines.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the writers at DC seem to make just about everyone into an idiot and/or loser whenever they are in the presence of the Bat God.

I liked Bruce a lot more back when he was mortal.

[ladymirth]

Why did I even expect anything different? *groan*

I noticed that Didio's to-do list in the last page of one of last month's Batman comics included "kill Lady Blackhawk". I wonder what that's about.

[theanswer]

Seemed like a cool story to me.

[bluefall]

Well, I'm very happy for you.

[theanswer]

Maybe if you relaxed more you would enjoy stories more often. ^_^

[bluefall]

I AM A NINJA.

Besides, shouldn't you be working on that Oracle: the Fail Cure post instead?

[bluefall]

What you actually mean, there, is maybe if I relaxed my intelligence, reading comprehension, and respect for the characters in the story, I would enjoy bullshit more often. Which is certainly true! But still not something I care to engage in. To each their own.

[theanswer]

No, that wasn't what I meant. <_<; I was just speaking as someone who has been lurking since the first S_D you don't seem to enjoy anything... like at all. ^_^;

[toasty_fresh]

Maybe . . . people enjoy different things, and this has nothing to do with how "relaxed" they are? And maybe telling someone to "relax" about something that bothers them in a legitimate way is . . . a little offensive? Idk, just throwing it out there ;)