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

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

so what was the attacker's problem?

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

If memory serves, he was going after people who were disabled due to an accident who then sued the person, or company, responsible for their disability. He felt they were actively attacking honest businesses just trying to get by. I don't recall if the impetus for his mania was because he was fired after injuring someone or not.

[milleniumrex.insanejournal.com]

He was a construction site owner who didn't secure his site properly. Several people died or were permanently disabled due to accidents, and the state shut him down. He barely stayed out of prison, but became incredibly bitter over it.