Funny panel from old-school BoP.

[richardak]

Because she killed him, get it? What? Don't act like you didn't laugh.

Comments

[tugrul]

I don't get it. Is this Helena not Batman's daughter?

[hotfoot]

No, this is Helena Bertinelli, not Helena Wayne. Pre-Nu52, Post-Crisis (the first one).

Comics, eh?

But yeah, her dad was a Mafioso basically. Now she fights crime.

[richardak]

More specifically, her father was Don Santo Cassamento, head of the Cassamento family, on of Gotham's Five Families, until she killed him.

[tugrul]

Ahhh, so two different Helena's have worn the Huntress costume. That was what was confusing me. I wasn't reading DC before Nu52.

[richardak]

Aw, you missed some great stuff. I strongly recommend Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood. I think it's the best superhero origin story ever written. It's what this panel is referring to.

[tugrul]

Noted. Thank you.

[richardak]

You're very welcome.

[hotfoot]

Yeah, comic book continuity is...interesting at best sometimes, and DC's has taken some weird turns. The original Huntress was a Silver Age creation, and was Helena Wayne, daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. She teamed up with Power Girl, who was Supergirl who decided to adopt her own identity after years of being under Superman's shadow. They teamed up and were the next generation of hero at the time.

Then Crisis on Infinite Earths came, collapsing the Silver Age DC multiverse into one universe in the 80's. A handful of characters from other dimensions were shunted into the new DCU, their home realities destroyed. Several characters who were popular were eventually re-introduced in different forms. Since Batman wasn't married to Catwoman (since this was a reboot of the universe), Helena Wayne couldn't exist, so they created a new Huntress with a new backstory, which played merry hell with the fact that Power Girl remembered Helena Wayne Huntress and there were several stories about her coming to terms that while Helena Bertinelli was similar, she wasn't the same.

That said, Post-Crisis to Pre-Nu52 have some great stories involving these characters and if you can get the trades I'd recommend it. Gail Simone's run on Birds of Prey is generally excellent. Palmiotti and Conner's run on Power Girl is also quite good, and of course Secret Six and Pre-nu52 Blue Beetle are phenomenal.

[tugrul]

I read some of World's Finest, yes. :) I really like what I've seen of them sofar.

Power Girl's story with the memory of Huntress sounds touching.

Thank you for all suggestions. They're noted.

[tigerkaya]

I'm sorry to see Helen have Liefield disease.

[richardak]

Actually, this is Benesitis.