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

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

I'm hoping that, once Bruce comes back to life and Babs vacates the Batcave, whoever's writing her at the time will do the perfectly standard comic writer thing and go "Babs's hangout in Gotham is the Clocktower, right?" and just move her right in out of sheer force of historical inertia, not even bothering to check if there's any reason that shouldn't work.

Because dammit, sometimes that impulse needs to end up as a force for good.

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

Babs leaving was a dumb move on just about every conceivable level. I'd be angrier about it, but War Games and the fallout damaged Steph and Leslie much worse than Barbara.