Smallville Season 11 #15

[superfangirl1]

Barbara crushing on superman.










First blood meeting with red sunlight gloves.

Comments

[silverhammerman]

And Batman is punching him why exactly? In the name of pointless conflict?

[mrstatham]

Definitely more of a Steph vibe here, given the talk of the symbol-doodling, which is, of course, a standard thing, but something Miller had her do before.

[kd_the_movie]

Could've sworn this was ChrisCross on the art.

[superfangirl1]

You are correct and tried to put his on on the tag bar. But can't becuase of the tag limit.

[mortimerwclankitybritches]

Because DRAMA!!!!!!

Its a well known scientific fact that making characters hate each other for no damn reason and writing pointless fight scenes between them in an attempt to draw in more readers (because Batman and superman have never, ever, ever fought before) is the single best way to write a comic.

Thats why its all marvel and dc seem to be doing these days. And it is just so much fun to read is it not?

[icon_uk]

There's already a tag for him/them

creator: chriscross

[icon_uk]

Yeah, Babs crushing on Superman doesn't work for me, so this is just Steph using a pseudonym (and hair dye) for me.

[superfangirl1]

Oh it works now. Maybe it was the way I type his named. Lol

Thank you. :)

[cypherfdp]

To reuse that scene from DKR?

[auggie18]

Thank GOD this was Barbara Gordon. I mean, this is so very out of character for Stephanie Brown and if they had her doing those things, I would be so scared and confused that I'd never buy another comic book ever again! My world would be thrown into chaos, the stars would fall into the ocean, and the universe would implode in on itself, creating a vast vortex of nothingness from which nothing would be able to escape, save for the screams of the damned.

And that is why it is a good thing that they changed this character from Steph to Babs.

[shadowpsykie]

Well. Batman broke into a prison and Superman interrupted his interrogation. You know how Batman gets when people interrupt stood interrogation.

[shadowpsykie]

I don't blame the creators for doing as little as possible to change their work. They chose Barbara because compared to the other choices she was closer in personality to Steph than the others, there for little would have to be changed in story.

Yes what DC did sucked but the creative team is trying to keep up. It doesn't help that Didio is telling everyone exactly who is to blame. The creative team.

[his_spiffynesss]

I'm halfway tempted to hop into Photoshop and fix her name and hair color.

[q99]

A journal is a very Steph thing since the beginning :)

[q99]

Wait, what's this about Didio blaming the creative team?

[shadowpsykie]

I'm one of his interviews he says "That's something they should never have done, they shouldn't have done that."
Something along those lines

Ah here it is http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/28/talking-to-dan-didio-about-stephanie-brown-and-rob-liefeld/

[darkknightjrk]

Honestly, I can see a young Barbara Gordon being a bit like this. I think a lot of people are just used to her in her mid-30s in a wheelchair commanding black ops teams to remember she was once a young woman who was a mix of Batman's intelligence and drive and Robin's zest.

[q99]

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What crap.

He's arguing they shouldn't be used because they're only moderately popular? Wanna know how you turn moderately popular to very popular? You use characters.

(Also Cassandra sold better than Babs, Babs was never that popular as Batgirl, and 'waiting for the right story' is clear code for 'we're not using them under my watch')

[mortimerwclankitybritches]

Maybe, but I would have thought that picking a fistfight with a stupidly powerful alien who just wants to talk would not be the most intelligent way of dealing with an interrupted interrogation. Especially when said alien could just fly away and burn his batsuit right off him with his eyes if he so desired.

Also, I know comic book illogical...ness is hardly something to question, but how exactly does batman know about Clark being weak to red sunlight? As far as I know regarding this continuity only Clark's inner circle would ever know about this.

Or is batman just being written as another unspeakably boring "all powerful/all knowing/undefeatable super badass" in the vein of ASBAR? Because if so I will just go back to reading ASBAR because at least I could get a few giggles out of that, which is more than I can say for what I have seen of this comic so far.

[shadowpsykie]

I just take it a Bruce would not go NEAR Metropolis if he didn't have SOME kind of advantage. How he tested/sussed it out, not sure. But I'm sure we will learn

[shadowpsykie]

He reiterated the blame THREE TIMES....

[shadowpsykie]

True.though I think that is why they chose get to replace steph

[wake_the_dragon]

so this is just Steph using a pseudonym (and hair dye) for me.

For me as well. From what I've seen of the scans, this just isn't Barbara-like to me.

[wake_the_dragon]

Well, that's just great.

I like how he felt the need to keep saying it was the creative team's fault. And his argument made no sense; Barbara was never Nightwing either.

[big_daddy_d]

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!