scans_daily: Preview of Huntress #1

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aeka) wrote in

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@ 2011-10-01 08:47 pm UTC

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char: huntress/helena bertinelli, char: huntress/robin/helena wayne, creator: marcus to, creator: paul levitz, title: huntress

Preview of Huntress #1

Newsarama released the first four pages of Huntress #1 by Paul Levitz, and so far it looks like this will be the only book in DCnU I'll actually be picking up besides Birds of Prey and Earth-2 JSA.

(Though should this really surprise anyone on here at this point? XP)

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So far I'm really digging the art in this issue and the writing looks pretty solid. One thing I *am* a bit worried about though is Levitz writing Helena B too similarly to his Helena Wayne version (ie, drugging a guy to sleep for example was more Helena Wayne's modus operandi than Helena B's who is more likely to beat a guy unconscious). But other than that, I am very much looking forward to reading the rest of this issue on Wednesday :)

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quatoria
2011-10-02 08:06 am UTC (link)

Also, to be fair, you actually CAN'T beat someone unconscious, like the movies show it, unless you're causing them enough brain trauma to potentially cripple them or put them in a coma. It's why you see, for example, boxers who were KO'd starting to get up a few seconds after the knockout. The human body just doesn't work the way it's normally depicted in films and comics - which is why I flat out LOVED her use of drugs to keep the guard out of the picture after she initially subdued him with the crossbow bolt.

Little touches like that really go a long way towards winning me over, as a reader.

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whitesycamore
2011-10-02 08:42 am UTC (link)

Yes, this.

Funnily enough, they rarely show people who've been knocked out for a minute or two staggering around in confusion and vomiting their guts up either, as would be quite normal after a severe concussion.

'Knocking people out' - if it lasts for more than a minute that usually means you've caused them a mid-to-severe traumatic brain injury, folks.

*puts soap box away*

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	no subject silicondream 2011-10-02 09:47 am UTC (link)
	Yep, exactly. That was a great touch Not quite sure why she's all RARR I AM DARK SEXY VENGEANCE when she's actually firing it though, it seems a bit at odds with the narration otherwise. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-10-02 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	I think I'd accept that a little more if she hadn't just ricochetted a crossbow bolt off his head. Even allowing for it being lighter than the norm, that thing would have crushed his skull, or at least caused severe fractures. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject aeka 2011-10-02 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	You beat me to it, but yes this. I would have believed that statement a bit more if she had actually fired a tranquilizer dart at him in the first place. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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richardak
2011-10-02 02:19 pm UTC (link)

All true, but the injection is nearly as unrealistic. There's a reason that anesthesiologists spend years learning how to drug people into unconsciousness safely. Too weak a dose, and the subject doesn't go under or doesn't stay under long enough; too strong a dose, and the subject dies. Also, if she were going to tranq him, why not just shoot a tranq bolt from the crossbow? It's a minor complaint, but this seems unnecessarily complicated.

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aeka
2011-10-02 02:23 pm UTC (link)

A fair point, but the point I was getting at is that characterisation-wise it's not beyond Helena B to cause fatal bodily harm when she pummels someone as she's been known to do so in the past.

Also, as

icon_uk pointed out, the fact that she initially knocked him out with a crossbow bolt, the velocity with which it travelled before impact would've still caused injury. With that alone, he wasn't going to get up anytime soon.

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	no subject twospirit.blogspot.com 2011-10-03 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	Is is possible to drug someone to keep them unconscious without it being dangerous to their health? I was under the impression that anesthesia was quite dangerous, and the levels have to be pretty exacting. Just curious. Doesn't really detract from the story for me. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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