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

Ahh, the Silver Age wankers

[autolychus2.insanejournal.com]

Well the bulk of everything I hate about DC is the Silver Age. The bulk of everything I love about Marvel is the Silver Age. That tends to make things all right for me as when one company starts fan wanking the previous generations characters and ideas, the other does as well and I switch.

This, of course, is a generality as nothing could make me like Superman.

There are always gems. I think one of the reasons that I liked the original JSA so much in the 70s was that their tone was more like Marvel at the time. While DC was still pumping stories that featured super-heroes who never had problems, the original JSA we're getting old, dealing with life's problems -- or, at least that's the perspective that seven-year-old Auto had.

That's why when someone asks me, who's my favorite GL or Flash, etc., I answer Alan Scott and Jay Garrick, respectively. It's not that I don't like Hal or Barry -- I do -- I just don't like the stories that they were in at the time, and I'll always like their namesakes better because, in comparison to Marvel heroes at the time, their stories were weak.

Now, that isn't to say that everything that DC put out during the Silver Age was crap or that everything that Marvel did was golden, it wasn't. But overall, the tone -- again with that word -- was what brought me in.

I could go on, but honestly college football is on and I'm enjoying a nice combination of barley and hops ...

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