Injustice: Year Two #13

[cyberghostface]

Black Canary and Harley Quinn are fighting when Dinah stops the fight to throw up. Harley recognizes it as morning sickness.

Comments

[espanolbot]

Yeah, it's moments like this that almost make up for the stupid stuff like Dick's rock related death and stuff.

[silverhammerman]

I'm always surprised when I see something this good with Tom Taylor's name on it. He seems to excel at these sorts of emotional scenes, but they come so infrequently that I keep forgetting he's so good at them. It feels like he's not really writing to his own strengths on big fight books like Injustice and Earth 2.

Black Canary's costume is terrible though.

[beyondthefringe]

. . .
Why couldn't we get something like this in the real DC universe? This moment is better than almost anything in the actual Birds of Prey book.

[icon_uk]

Ironically (or frustratingly, not sure which), I suspect it's precisely because it's not in the main DCU that they can do this sort of thing. No other titles to be beholden too, no real continuity to worry about...

I think it's as much the fact it's being done well (or treated as absurdly as it might be, cf Dick's "instant death by falling down") as much as anything.

[freezer]

And now the image of Ultra Car from Shortpacked in a tutu is burned into my head.

[remial]

it isn't that outlandish an idea, it does have a human form now.

[starwolf_oakley]

I wonder if Ollie and Dinah's son or daughter will have black hair, like their daughter in KINGDOM COME did.

[alschroeder3]

50-50 chance, since Dinah's hair is really black. That's a wig. (Or was pre-52, I have no idea post-52.)

[long_silence]

More than 50-50 since blonde hair is a recessive gene and black hair is dominant.

And I thought Dinah used to wear a wig but started dyeing her hair blonde

[icon_uk]

That is correct, up until the time that Birds of Prey launched she wore a wig, then decided to dye her hair blonde instead.

[obsidianwolf]

I really don't get this title when it's following the game's plot its at best the equivalent of painting by numbers and at worse terrible. When it's killing off folks who don't appear in the game it is even worse than the worst of the game's plot.

And yet we get getting these brief character moments that are just so freaking good that they outshine pretty much everything else being published at the moment. I

[xammax]

I'm beginning to suspect editor mandates may be the issue at play.

[halloweenjack]

Given the number of creators who have openly or implicitly complained about DC editorial mandates, I'd rank it above a suspicion.

[althechi]

...how are the arm portions of Black Canary's costume adhering to her body? Spirit gum?

[burkeonthesly]

Maybe she's wearing a flesh-colored body stocking on her upper body?

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Canon or not, I'm hard pressed to think of a character moment in the Nu52 that is half as good as this one.

Holy crap.

[adam_sherman]

...I think we just witnessed the seeds of Harley Quinn's return to the Light.

With no Mistah J around, Harley realizes that she has someone else important in her life to please. So she joins the Insurrection, so that her daughter can say, "Mommy was a hero!"

Sad thing is, I wouldn't be surprised if the Joker wasn't joking in the scene Harley described, and really didn't care she was gone. He probably just saw her as a possession.

Re: Holy crap.

[crinos]

Well, having just bought the tie in game and played it, getting Harley's ending for the arcade mode... Lets just say it didn't work out that way for Harley.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

My only grievance here is that her daughter isn't a set of twins named Dee Dee.

[espanolbot]

Well given that the Dee Dees were Harley's grandkids, there's still time in the next forty years for that to happen. :)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Ah, yeah, I guess I forgot (if I knew?) they were her grandkids, not her kids.

Tim killed the Joker and Good Riddance

[7dialsmystery]

Supposedly the Dee Dee twins' mother is a daughter she had with a man named Davison or Davidson she married when she was hiding out waiting for the statute of limitations to run out for the crimes she committed with Mistah J. Yeah, that's right. Harley got married and became Harley Davidson. Harley referred to the Dee Dees' mom as a bitch so I doubt Lucy is that kid.

Re: Tim killed the Joker and Good Riddance

[icon_uk]

Being only four, Lucy would have plenty of time to grow up and disappoint her mother... not that I would wish such a thing.

Re: Tim killed the Joker and Good Riddance

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Love the name pun, and I guess I forgot about them being her grandkids, not her kids.

[remial]

ten to one that Superman heard all that, and in a few issues, kills Lucy in front of Harley.

Superman Makes For An Awesome Supervillain

[7dialsmystery]

Honestly, after all the evil crap Harley pulled with Joker, Supes can throw Harley into the sun and I wouldn't really give any f*cks. There's a point when Arkham's revolving door policy gets so absurd that slaughtering the whole pack of them or tossing them into the phantom zone just makes sense.

Re: Superman Makes For An Awesome Supervillain

[icon_uk]

Though the Phantom Zone has an even worse reformation rate of it's population than Arkham, especially since those in it are intangible phantoms who can see and hear anything they want in the outside world when they're in there.

Re: Superman Makes For An Awesome Supervillain

[espanolbot]

Because people who are genuinely mentally ill and have shown the ability to reform/get cured must surely be judged in the same manner as people who are aware of right and wrong but just don't care, like the Joker.

[kurenai_tenka]

It's like there's a contest on for worst Harley costume.

And as much as I like this moment, I generally prefer to assume that Joker doesn't have genitals, and thinking otherwise squicks me out a little bit. xD

[7dialsmystery]

It's like they went to Emma Frost's yard sale and over dyed some of her cast offs.

[kurenai_tenka]

*Snerk* Yup.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I prefer this to the Arkham Asylum game version, for whatever that's worth.

[kurenai_tenka]

I feel like this costume could be onto something, if it didn't have that 'forgot to put pants on' look to it. Pull the middle together and add some shorts/skirt/trousers and it might be quite nice.

[espanolbot]

Yeah, Wonder Woman had the same reaction in this rejected cover Brian Bolland did way back when,

[kurenai_tenka]

Criminy what happened to her face? Clearly the effect of seeing something so horrible...

who the daddy?

[gwhh]

Its about time black canary had a kid. I wonder who the daddy is?

Re: who the daddy?

[deepspaceartist]

The (recently dead) Green Arrow of Injustice Earth, I'd bet.