Huntress and Arsenal. 1 page from outsiders volume 3 issue 12

[requiem2adream]

I have a question about Huntress and Arsenal's one night stand so of course I turn to the lovely ladies and gents of scans_daily to hopefully find the answer.

The first I heard of it was in BoP: Dinah, Babs and Helena are meeting in a park to discuss whether or not they can work together as a team and the subject of Helena's one night stands with Dick and Roy comes up and Helena has the brilliant line 'Archers... they pull a mighty bow but they're quick to let fly'. Which of course pisses Dinah off royally and nearly ends the team before it even begins.

I went back and read the Outsiders issues where Helena takes Roy's place on the team while he recovers from being shot, thinking that would be where I could find the Huntress/Arsenal stuff (I'm a massive Huntress fan and I've been trying to track down and read pretty much everything she's been in because yes I am obsessive) but apart from the kiss at the end




there's not really any interaction between the two and certainly no sexy times going on between the pair.

So folks my question is this: is this the first time it's ever referenced or is does the Helena/Roy stuff happen in different issues to the ones I've been reading? 

Comments

[icon_uk]

The implication I get from this is that they've only just had their sex-but-not-a-thing during this time period.

[harpers_child]

i've always found roy's whole "i grab every chance to sleep with amazing women" thing to be very much my own sentiments. although given the way he's staring at nightwing's ass maybe he should drop the women part of that line. no need to limit yourself to just the women, roy.

[thelazyreader]

Funnily enough this may be one of the most natural one-night-stands in superhero comics, because Huntress and Arsenal are like opposite-gender versions of each other in the 'will sleep with anyone who's hot' aspect.

[requiem2adream]

I don't see that about Helena at all.

Of all the men she's been linked with - Charlie, Dick, Roy and Thomas - she didn't sleep with a single one of them 'because they're hot'.

Well, except Roy. I don't know WHY she got with Roy which is the thing that's bugging me most about the way it's just kind of dropped in at the end of her time with the outsiders.

As for the others, well they ARE hot of course but there where other reasons for her to be with them apart from just hotness.

[icon_uk]

What reason did they give for her sleeping with Dick that was any more plausible than "because they're hot"? They have nothing in common, don't actually seem to like each other much and Dick is not the sort for one night stands (Bruce Jones to one side)

[nezchan]

"Because he's hot" regarding Dick is a much better reason than "because he's hot" with anyone else. That's a fact!

[greenmask]

He IS very gymnastic.

[ajremix.livejournal.com]

I actually had to re-read Roy's last line because it first sounded like a muttered self-flagellation from a guy knowing he can't get what he wants.

[icon_uk]

Well, yes, but that's the DCU equivalent of "Skies are blue" and "The grass is green".. sorry, Freudian slap... SLIP!!

[kirke_novak]

I have absolutely nothing of substance to add, except for: BRITTANA! \o/

[requiem2adream]

Helena slept with Dick because she thought it would get her some kind of twisted approval and according to Helena in BoP he slept with her because was lonely and wanted Babs.

The line she uses is 'maybe I was looking for some happiness but it's pretty clear that all he was looking was you.'

I never said they were good reasons. Just that there were other reasons.

[requiem2adream]

I don't know, I think that's pretty substantial in and of itself XD

[rordulum]

The only thing I ever liked about this was Gail Simone crapping on it in BoP, by having Helena say Roy was no good in bed.

But then, I've never liked Roy Harper... even before he started hitting people with dead cats.

[requiem2adream]

... I'm sorry Roy did what now?

[shadowpsykie]

Bizzaro Roy, it was in a recent supergirl comic :)

[shadowpsykie]

am i the only one who thinks Dick is a little jealous

maybe its just this community but his "Is there anyone you WONT sleep with" came out like either "Roy, YOU bitch, i thought i was the only one," or "Dammit Roy, why won't you LOVE ME!"

[requiem2adream]

Oh thank god! I thought it was some kind of weird 'Rise of Arsenal' thing for a second XD

[joasakura]

You're never the only one.

;D

[requiem2adream]

It's never just you.

[wasabi.livejournal.com]

Certainly not. In my personal canon that was the main reason Dick swings off in a huff.

[icon_uk]

I hate to say it, but a dead cat featured there too

[requiem2adream]

... Dear lord they made it worse than I could have imagined.

[icon_uk]

Here, a little something to make you feel more upbeat!

[rordulum]

Yep, I was talking about the Rise of Arsenal one. Non-Bizarro Roy, still a cat corpse wielding druggie.

The only good part of that whole story was Dick channeling his inner Batman and kicking Roy in the face, whilst calmly declaring, "I'm your friend." Still unintentionally hilarious, but not headshakingly so.

Bizarro-Roy with a quiver full of dead cats was intentionally hilarious, which is much better.

[icon_uk]

Nope, you are definitely not alone there...