Huntress #1

[aeka]

Not sure how this works if you've already posted two pages from the preview, so just to be on the safe side, I'll just post two pages from the Huntress book that wreaked of all shades of awesome. ♥








So long story short, Helena discovered human trafficking and she's doing something about it. All in all, aeka likes. ♥

Characterisation-wise, Helena Bertinelli is still the fiery Italian we all love with a whole lot of boot to smash someone's jaw. She does however feel a bit more toned down than her post-Crisis self, though this may change later as the story progresses. I did particularly notice that Levitz blended elements of the Helena Wayne personality onto Helena B (namely her one-liners) while leaving the rest of her character in tact for the most part, but when I write a proper review of this issue on my Huntress blog, I'll be able to support this better. :P

Hope you guys pick this one up. :)

[Edit]: She's Helena Wayne. (01/13/2012)

Comments

[salinea]

... how many people has Helena canonically killed? I thought it was, like, three.

[richardak]

Who knows what's canonical anymore, but the number is definitely higher than that. Just to give an example, at the beginning of the first issue of the Dixon/Netzer miniseries in 1994, she kills an entire gang in a fight. Because Netzer's art is somewhat stylized, it's not clear how many of them there are, but definitely way more than three in that incident alone. The way the story is written furthermore clearly implies that this is not an unusual thing.

[ibmiller.livejournal.com]

Huh, I missed that. I've also wondered what her body count is - since the comics which started me reading her were published starting in around 2003. I don't think she's killed many people since then. But I do remember reading the Dixon years on Huntress (the Robin specials, his mini you reference), and she does seem even less connected to any sort of support system, and much more ruthless (also Huntress/Spoiler: Cataclysm, or whatever it was that was the lead-in event to NML).