heartless guttersnipe (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} parsimonia) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} scans_daily,@ 2009-06-09 00:45:00 |
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| Entry tags: | char: batgirl/cassandra cain, creator: phil noto, creator: scott peterson, publisher: dc comics, series: one perfect moment week, title: batgirl |
One (of many) Perfect Moment(s) for Cassandra Cain
These five pages are from Batgirl: Secret Files & Origins. The art is by Phil Noto, who is fantastic at drawing Cassandra Cain in her Batgirl costume.
This comic was my first exposure to Cassandra Cain and to modern DC comics continuity. I love it dearly.
I love this scene because it exemplifies Cass's ability to be a bad-ass, but at the same time demonstrates a great capacity for compassion, empathy, and a very personal understanding of moral ambiguity. Her parents are assassins and she herself was raised to become one. She has complicated feelings about her parents, knowing they're bad people while simultaneously having a bond with them (Cain because he raised her, Shiva because of their whole "we're so talented! let's fight and kill each other!" dance they do).
She has killed before, so she has to, needs to believe in redemption and that bad things happening to a person or being "born bad" does not wholly determine who you are or who you can become.
At the same time, I find those last two panels, with the shadows from the jail cell window and her looking out, to be oddly, but fittingly, bittersweet. I think it suits Cassandra Cain very well.