70s Talia

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

By request, for runespoor7, who requested 70s Talia*

From Detective #411, by Dennis O'Neil, Bob Brown and Dick Giordano.
Reprinted in Batman: Tales of the Demon TPB

*Or, requested, more specifically: Talia being awesome (70s Talia), I've been told it exists.


I'll leave Talia's level of awesome to the individual, though I think she's much more likable here than she is say, now. And Batman thinks she's pretty awesome, especially the next few stories. (Batman to Talia: "Anything! I owe you my life!")


I do think the story's fun. Batman jumps off a train dressed as an elderly matron! A fight to the death by 'tetsu-bishi' in Gotham's Statue of Liberty Freedom! Prose like: "Flailing Bo-Sticks savagely swarm over the Batman. Battering, breaking... until he hitches forward into the welcome relief of oblivion." And Batman punching a bull in the face!











Batman is momentarily blinded...

tags: creator: Dennis O'Neil, creator: Bob Brown, creator: Dick Giordano, char: Talia Al Ghul, char: Batman/Bruce Wayne, title: Detective Comics, era: Bronze Age

Comments

[freezer818.insanejournal.com]

Today's Batman would've hauled her in for 2nd Degree Murder... Here, he's all "Yeah, that was fucked up. I know..."

[taggerung301.insanejournal.com]

todays Talia wouldn't have cried though

[schala_kid.insanejournal.com]

No she would have try to jump Batman afterward, because really that's all she wants to do nowadays.

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

LOL! I love him saying that. But taggerung's right, she wouldn't have cried today either.

[superfan1.insanejournal.com]

She would of made a comment about him being inferior. Then maybe kick him for threatening batman after the incident with the train.

[thosefew.insanejournal.com]

She's basically a Bond girl here, right?

[yaseen101.insanejournal.com]

And Bruce Wayne is Roger Moore (at least, to me it is).

[sailorlibra.insanejournal.com]

And it's remarkable that she was much more awesome as basically a Bond girl than she is now.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

This looks really interesting and cool.

Are you sure that's Talia?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Are you sure that's Talia?

YES.

Whoever that lady is running around nowadays, I have no idea.

[batcookies.insanejournal.com]

THIS is the real Talia.

We've been saddled with a skrull for a while now.

[filkertom.insanejournal.com]

Damn skippy. There are only two women who've ever really deserved the love of the Batman*, and Talia's one of 'em.


* at his best -- no ASBAR, for instance

[jedd_the_jedi.insanejournal.com]

Cruelty to animals! Blasphemy! That aside, Talia hasn't really grown on me that much, what with her whoe "Detective! Beloved! My one and only!" shtick. It gets sappy after a while. But it's fun to see her as a damsel-in-distress, there are practically no such creatures in comics today. All women have to be badass.

[khaosworks.insanejournal.com]

I can never see Talia show up and not think about what they did to her in Batman Beyond. That was beyond messed up.

[queenursula.insanejournal.com]

Wasn't it later revealed she and Ra's were acting here?

[batcookies.insanejournal.com]

No, Darrk was a genuine traitor.

[runespoor7.insanejournal.com]

Oh, thanks!

You're right, it's rather interesting. No trace of beloved. No rape as a mean to build an army. And Bat-hugs.

Did Talia really study medicine? Because that's pretty awesome.

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

Glad you liked! And thank god for no trace of "My Beloved!"

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Just what has Talia been doing recently that's so heinous? I mean, I know that she's Damian's mom, and evidently she's done a piss-poor job of it for him to turn out the whiny little toerag he is, but otherwise, I was under the impression that she was still a fairly viable character. (Of course, I haven't been reading her lately, but still.)

[pepperspray101.insanejournal.com]

Well...Morrison writes her like an idiot (making huge plans all for what? Batman's attention? and then puts a lot of cliches on her...) and Tomasi wrote her with a bit more dignity in Nightwing, but her plans were twisted and she didn't feel remorse till the very end, which is probably better than none...but yeah. yikes.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Ah, OK. A victim of bad writing, then.

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

Yeah. In a couple of cases, pretty egregious.

[kingrockwell]

Is the bull's name actually Ferdinand? I know Rucka likes referencing Denny, but I thought that was only as goes The Question! There has got to be a story there.

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

There is! Ferdinand the Bull is a classic children's story.

Here:http://www.scribd.com/doc/3230173/Story-of-Ferdinand

Here it is in vid form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLsAyb2VG48

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Probably one of my two or three favorite kid's stories ever. A tribute to the virtues of not being a jock.

And cork trees!

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

I have to say, I kind of prefer today's grown-up Talia, as developed by Morrison. This one had no personality besides "My love!"