City of Light: Cass Gets A Boyfriend... Another One

[espanolbot]

Cass is having coffee, when a random diner empolyee decides to hit on her.








Embarassing romantic upset number one: finding that the girl you like is severely dyslexic and unable to read the note you sent her.

Wait, does the fact that she got a cheque mean she can no maths? Hm, I think I read elsewhere Cass just hands over a bunch of tens and twenties at random and they work out the change for her.

Anyway, considering Cass' boyfriends tend to have the lasting power of an unrefridgerated carton of milk, she happens to be single at the time so she takes him up on it.













Mickey Rourke seems to have taken time out of promoting Iron Man 2 to play Cass' dad here. Weird that this fear of intimacy hasn't appeared anywhere other than this mini series, huh?

Anyway, Javier decides to send her some flowers to make up for whatever slightly he assumed Cass felt he'd done.

Yeah, people make a lot of weird noises in this storyline. Batman spends two, three issues going Grrmph for example.

Wait, doesn't this invalidate the part of her origin where seeing someone killed in front of her make her run from her father and become the littlest hobo?

Anyway, Javier vanishes from the story as actual plot occurs, but we're left with these two panels as City of Light concludes.


Wow, look how enthusiastic she is. Why does Bruce hanging out in the background make it look like he made her go out with Javier again?

Anyway, Javier evaporated after this storyline, only to be semi-replaced with Tim. Who Cass was apathetic about unless off her face on Evil Juice. And then there was Sal, from Beechen's mini series, who also vanished after THAT mini was over.

Unless Cass is dossing at his house at the moment or something.

char: batgirl/cassandra cain

Comments

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Gah, and isn't this the only Bat mini series where Cass plays a big role?

Why oh why do/did Bat writers have such a huge stick up their ass about using her?

[espanolbot]

Yeah, it kind of is the only one where she stars. I say stars because Bruces goes batshit for most of the story, and ends up living in a hole in the ground and eating worms, so Cass is left the carry the story until he gets over it.

Cass IS kinda awesome in the story, though she sort of talks too much (this was just after Officer Down, so she wasn't into monologues yet) and the only mention of her dyslexia comes in an off-hand comment when she gets Alfred to read some computer files for her.

[majingojira]

That's a very good question. My guess is that she's: Asian, Female and from a non-standard background.

That last ones especially a kicker, because they feel they can't "Know who she is" when writing her because they feel they cannot relate to her.

At least, that's what I think they think.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I'm more inclined to think that they cannot get over the fact that she's not Babs.

Cass should be amongst the easiest 'Bat' to get, as her background/origin is just as strong as Batman's.

I say should because of late, I haven't yet seen any indication that the vast majority of writers or editors know what genre is, let alone characterization.

[majingojira]

It hurts their causet that no one has ever created a "Series Bible" for the DCU.

Or, as I understand it, any major comic universe.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

They shouldn't need to. There are enough fan sites around that character research should be easy.

More than that, they should be able to contact past writers for information. This is the information age, yet comics are the only medium not taking advantage of that.

[jaybee3]

She was used well (along with Huntress, Dick, Tim and the late Orpheus) in one of my favorite Bat-minis ever - "Batman Family". It included the only time I've ever seen Cass in civilian gear (i.e. dress and make-up) openly as a member of Bruce's family, standing (and smiling!) with Tim, Dick, Bruce (and Babs) at a Wayne charity function at the end. It's a shame that its not available in TPB as far as I know.