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

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

I think it depends on who he's with. His talks with Dick post RIP have been mostly snark free, and Dick doesn't need the snark as much as Bruce to begin with. Barbara is in that bategory as well.

[jcbaggee.insanejournal.com]

HA!

"Bategory". I lawled.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Interesting - an acronym has acquired phonetics.

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

Much as I'd like to take the credit for your pleasure, the truth is that was an honest misspelling. Serendipitous, to be sure, but accidental.

[jcbaggee.insanejournal.com]

That's not serendipity. That's fate. Bategory is now an official term in my vocabulary.