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

[bluejaybirdie]

Don't forget Zero! Oh, and Cass is looking particularily Shiva-ish here. Which wasn't inteneded then since she hadn't been revealed as Cass's mother yet, but it's cool it retrospect.

(I'm not going to touch the flashback failures here)

[anewchallenger]

I wish we could all forget Zero. Emocore fops like him suck hard in real life, and he had no business dating a superheroine.

[scottyquick]

I liked Zero! Not so much because he was a great character, but because it was the only story where Cass was allowed to be attracted without it being both horribly wrong and the main focus of the arc.

[anewchallenger]

Don't get me wrong - I liked the story. The idea of Cass meeting a guy who she could relate to on the vibes of the music alone was a cute one.

Just his design was so "white suburban angst" that it made me wince.

Like knowing that eventually he'd try to drown his sorrows to her on a date?

"Yeah, my life was pretty rough. I used to roll hadcore, got kicked out of highschool for doing E... fuck the establishment, right? My stepdad is always trying to rule me and shit, so I'm like "eff you, man!" and I got these tats. Also, I totally put miles on his prius last weekend to go to Curiosa. I'm a rebel that way, babe."

"My... He... gunshots. Alot."

[scottyquick]

I always thought of him as kind of different - just a normal kid who loved to dance and loved Cass.

Although now I kind of wish I'd interpreted him to be more like your version.

[anewchallenger]

No idea if I should read your reply as sarcastic, but I guess maybe I'm being a little too cynical in my reading?

All the same, I'd be all for Cass meeting a nice, normal guy - or even a relatively sane meta.

Maybe I read too much into the kid? I had thought that they implied he was a tagger somewhere? Maybe not.

[scottyquick]

No sarcasm!