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Tweak says, "I want a Scooby snack!"

mysteryfan (mysteryfan) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-23 09:14:00

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char: batman/bruce wayne, char: black canary/dinah lance, creator: frank miller, creator: jim lee, creator: scott williams, publisher: dc comics, title: all-star batman and robin

"Tough love from some crazy Irish chick."

psychop_rex requested ASBAR, Black Canary. Specifically, the scene with the car...

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	jlroberson 2009-05-23 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't say I object. For heaven's sake, some of what I draw is smut. What I'm saying is her assertiveness becomes acceptable because of that. And not for long. He doesn't like her being mouthy afterward. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mysteryfan
2009-05-24 02:27 pm UTC (link)

I'm saying that sex* does not diminish a woman's assertiveness.

*or whatever level of fooling around they do, because it's not graphically shown, and I'm not at all convinced they have out and out 'traditional' sex, not in the least because of the book's art, and their costumes.

And Batman doesn't like anybody, period, in this book. He barely tolerates Hal or Superman. He has three moments of tenderness or sudden human kindness in this whole title. We don't even see them until the ninth and tenth issues. One happens with Selina, one with Dick, after Dick almost beats Hal to death.

This Batman's an emotionally stunted childman, with an emotional age of ten or eleven. (He's much less socially and emotionally mature than Dick Graysonage12) and I believe we were supposed to see him as that, probably to see that he's been stunted by his childhood trauma, then watch him grow into someone more moral and human. We won't know, because it ended, but that's what I think.

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