Babs and Alfred: Tea and Sympathy. And Crime-Solving

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

Reading Gotham Knights #12 and came across this nice moment between Alfred and Babs. I really liked this story. There's kind of--quite a bit of her processing her shooting, and I think it's well done here.

(From Gotham Knights #12 by Jen Van Meter, Coy Turnbull and John Lowe. 2001.)


Cover by Darwyn Cooke

Context: Babs is having a hard time, trying to solve a case involving wheelchair victims. She's tried all of her usual coping mechanisms: exercise, work, etc. and nothing's helped. So she makes a fairly complicated trip...





I love that Alfred found her a BW handkerchief.




Check out the photos changing...

She figures out the guy's motive, so she sets him up to go after her. She sues her father and Bruce Wayne. For her shooting.



It works and the guy comes after her.


She solves the case and takes down the criminal.

Comments

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

This is awesome. Alfred and Babs need to have way more teamups. The art for this is excellent too, I'd love to see Babs (and her chair) drawn like this more often (plus I miss the short hair and comfy clothes look).

Is this traded in anything?

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

No. Sadly it is not in trade.

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

This is from the eviiiiil Dixon/Grayson/Brubaker/Puckett era, don't want any fans to remember that stuff!

[yaseen101.insanejournal.com]

Eh? Are you reffering to the rampant Bat-dickery or some other stuff I'm not aware about?

[scottyquick.insanejournal.com]

No, just the general attitude from DC towards late 90's/early 00's Batbooks.

[yaseen101.insanejournal.com]

heh, well how else do they expect us to like Damian and crazy!Tim when we can always go back to the good ol' days?

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

plus I miss the short hair and comfy clothes look

M-to-the-Otto. Motto.

Hacker Babs, with sweatshirts and short, messy hair surrounded by her homemade supercomputers, that's the very definition of sexy for me. Forget fishnets. Forget boob window. Show me Babs at her workstation. Rowr!

[kingrockwell]

Haha! I agree with all of this!

[runespoor7.insanejournal.com]

There are no trades of the good parts of Batman: Gotham Knights. The trades begin with Hush Returns and I wish so hard I was making this up.

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

There aren't any Gotham Knights collections yet (unless you count the Black and White stories) but some stories are in trade in other collections, like Grayson's 24/7 is in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol 1, and it and other GK stories are reprinted in things like Bruce Wayne: Fugitive or Ego and Other Tails or the Black and White TPBs. (http://www.dcindexes.com/reprints/reprints.php?series=256)