Three pages from Huntress: Year One #4

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Oh, Babs. You and your dorkiness and your bat-shadows.





This is one of those pages from Huntress: Year One that qualifies as "so bad it's good", IMO.

ETA: Edited to add a couple more pages for increased lulz and context.

Comments

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Aw, you can't put up just the one page. You really gotta post the whole attempt at a pickup flirtation conversation to get the proper picture.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

This is the only image I have scanned from that issue. Actually, I'm pretty sure I may have saved it from your posting this issue on the old comm, which would explain why I only have the one. I clearly saved it because it was the one to produce maximum lulz.

that online S_D archive never stops being awesome

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Huh. If it was mine (http://i29.tinypic.com/2ywu90k.jpg), you changed the size at some point, it's not the standard pixel width I use for posting. However, if you're interested, the other (http://i28.tinypic.com/2ev3neo.jpg) two (http://i31.tinypic.com/2093bxz.jpg) are still up at Tinypic from the first posting... >.>

Re: that online S_D archive never stops being awesome

[kingrockwell]

Never any luck for poor Babs :(

Re: that online S_D archive never stops being awesome

[thebigapricot.insanejournal.com]

Oh God, she gets even cuter and tries even harder! "Maybe European women are more girly, I'll try to act girly!" This isn't even subtext at this point.

Re: that online S_D archive never stops being awesome

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Could be photobucket resizing. Or maybe I scanned it in my sleep or something, IDK. But that image wasn't saved in my usual s_d-scan folder and I didn't label it like I normally label stuff I scan, so I figured it must've been one I stole, like the thieving thief I am.

*edited to add scans*

[ladymirth.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I hate how Barbara is drawn like a mousy little dork compared tot he glamourous woman-about-town Helena.

Gawds, I didn't even notice the Bat-shadow. Cheeeesy!

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

I kind of like that aspect, actually. Because IMO it fits the characters.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Ummm... Babs is trying to maintain a secret identity, Helena isn't, so Babs appreciates the importance of downplaying her sheer awesomeness.

[thebigapricot.insanejournal.com]

Awww, is Babs trying to hit on Helena? She is so cute and persistent! I would have downed my drink and walked away at "I have no right to judge you, God will do that"

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

That last pic of Babs is too adorable for words.

[seriousfic.insanejournal.com]

Am I going to have to read this just so I can write femslash of this scene? Because no mere mortal can resist Sexy!Librarian!WithBatIssues!Barbara. As soon as she takes off those glasses and lets her hair down, she goes from zero to SEX in .09 seconds.

Then she puts on a cuter pair of glasses for the cuddling.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Then she puts on a cuter pair of glasses for the cuddling.

A different pair of glasses for every occasion! I like it.

[xlineartx.insanejournal.com]

I thought Helena was Italian-American? She is, isn't she?

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

She is. She lived in Gotham until her parents were killed, then she lived with distant mafia relatives in Italy until she came back to Gotham as an adult, I believe.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

She's lying about where she learned English in this, so that she doesn't have to reveal too much about herself, considering she killed the guy they were toasting to.

[freivolk.insanejournal.com]

Barbara Gorden is the gayest straight girl in the world.

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

Or is she the straightest gay girl in the world?

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

I think she's just gay, personally.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

I think I've mentioned this before, but while I can see it as Babs being gay or bi, my first thought is that her relationship with Dinah and her trying to pick up Helena here are the product of her having pretty much no female friends/relationships of any kind at this point in her life.

Even here, in this random weirdo may-not-even-be-canon scene, Babs is surrounded by male colleagues. That "I'll try to act girly" line especially ties into that theory. I mean, it could work as her attempt at a pick-up line, but it also reads like "omg it's a girl! I can haz friend?" to me.

[jarodrussell.insanejournal.com]

I fully expect a "Hyuck" from Barbara any panel now.

[lieut_kettch.insanejournal.com]

I'd love to see this scene brought up in the BoP-era. Y'know, like a Truth or Dare session with Babs, Helena, Zinda, Dinah, and Charlie, and when it's Helena's turn and she chooses Truth, she goes, "Barbara tried to pick me up at a bar in Palermo."

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Youu know, this is one of the reasons I've never really warmed up to Helena - she has such a huge damn chip on her shoulder. Stop acting all cool and European-haughty towards the cute little dorky redhead, Helena! She's just trying to be friendly!

[richardak.insanejournal.com]

What you're forgetting is that when Helena's family was murdered when she was eight, the Gotham police sent her "condolence" cards that read "many happy returns." So hearing Barbara toasting the death of Mandragora, and then learning that Gordon and her colleagues are with law enforcement, could only bring all that back for her. When she says never to toast anyone's death, she's genuinely angry. Babs may be trying to be friendly, but she's failing miserably.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Well, yes, but Babs couldn't know any of that. Maybe she IS genuinely angry, but she's not really acting that way - more like bitchy and confrontational. She's never met Babs in her life, and she's responding to her apologetic overtures of friendship with the cold shoulder. She's essentially taking her anger out on an innocent stranger who's trying to be friendly, and I can't defend that.