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mysteryfan (mysteryfan) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-24 16:58:00

Entry tags:

char: batman/bruce wayne, char: talia al ghul, creator: bob brown, creator: dennis o'neil, creator: dick giordano, era: bronze age, publisher: dc comics, title: detective comics

70s Talia
By request, for runespoor7, who requested 70s Talia*

From Detective #411, by Dennis O'Neil, Bob Brown and Dick Giordano.
Reprinted in Batman: Tales of the Demon TPB

*Or, requested, more specifically: Talia being awesome (70s Talia), I've been told it exists.

I'll leave Talia's level of awesome to the individual, though I think she's much more likable here than she is say, now. And Batman thinks she's pretty awesome, especially the next few stories. (Batman to Talia: "Anything! I owe you my life!")

I do think the story's fun. Batman jumps off a train dressed as an elderly matron! A fight to the death by 'tetsu-bishi' in Gotham's Statue of ~~Liberty~~ Freedom! Prose like: "Flailing Bo-Sticks savagely swarm over the Batman. Battering, breaking... until he hitches forward into the welcome relief of oblivion." And Batman punching a bull in the face!

Batman is momentarily blinded...

tags: creator: Dennis O'Neil, creator: Bob Brown, creator: Dick Giordano, char: Talia Al Ghul, char: Batman/Bruce Wayne, title: Detective Comics, era: Bronze Age

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	freezer818 2009-09-24 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	Today's Batman would've hauled her in for 2nd Degree Murder... Here, he's all "Yeah, that was fucked up. I know..." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	taggerung301 2009-09-24 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	todays Talia wouldn't have cried though (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schala_kid 2009-09-25 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	No she would have try to jump Batman afterward, because really that's all she wants to do nowadays. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-09-24 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	LOL! I love him saying that. But taggerung's right, she wouldn't have cried today either. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-09-25 04:12 am UTC (link)
	She would of made a comment about him being inferior. Then maybe kick him for threatening batman after the incident with the train. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thosefew 2009-09-24 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	She's basically a Bond girl here, right? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yaseen101 2009-09-24 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	And Bruce Wayne is Roger Moore (at least, to me it is). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sailorlibra 2009-09-25 12:40 am UTC (link)
	And it's remarkable that she was much more awesome as basically a Bond girl than she is now. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-09-25 12:43 am UTC (link)
	This looks really interesting and cool. Are you sure that's Talia? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-09-25 12:47 am UTC (link)
	Are you sure that's Talia? YES. Whoever that lady is running around nowadays, I have no idea. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	batcookies 2009-09-25 01:18 am UTC (link)
	THIS is the real Talia. We've been saddled with a skrull for a while now. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	filkertom 2009-09-25 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Damn skippy. There are only two women who've ever really deserved the love of the Batman, and Talia's one of 'em. at his best -- no ASBAR, for instance (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jedd_the_jedi 2009-09-25 04:53 am UTC (link)
	Cruelty to animals! Blasphemy! That aside, Talia hasn't really grown on me that much, what with her whoe "Detective! Beloved! My one and only!" shtick. It gets sappy after a while. But it's fun to see her as a damsel-in-distress, there are practically no such creatures in comics today. All women have to be badass. (Reply to this)

	khaosworks 2009-09-25 05:24 am UTC (link)
	I can never see Talia show up and not think about what they did to her in Batman Beyond. That was beyond messed up. (Reply to this)

	queenursula 2009-09-25 05:27 am UTC (link)
	Wasn't it later revealed she and Ra's were acting here? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	batcookies 2009-09-25 05:31 am UTC (link)
	No, Darrk was a genuine traitor. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	runespoor7 2009-09-25 05:58 am UTC (link)
	Oh, thanks! You're right, it's rather interesting. No trace of beloved. No rape as a mean to build an army. And Bat-hugs. Did Talia really study medicine? Because that's pretty awesome. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-09-25 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Glad you liked! And thank god for no trace of "My Beloved!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-25 06:49 am UTC (link)
	Just what has Talia been doing recently that's so heinous? I mean, I know that she's Damian's mom, and evidently she's done a piss-poor job of it for him to turn out the whiny little toerag he is, but otherwise, I was under the impression that she was still a fairly viable character. (Of course, I haven't been reading her lately, but still.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pepperspray101 2009-09-25 09:10 am UTC (link)
	Well...Morrison writes her like an idiot (making huge plans all for what? Batman's attention? and then puts a lot of cliches on her...) and Tomasi wrote her with a bit more dignity in Nightwing, but her plans were twisted and she didn't feel remorse till the very end, which is probably better than none...but yeah. yikes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-25 09:20 am UTC (link)
	Ah, OK. A victim of bad writing, then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-09-25 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. In a couple of cases, pretty egregious. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingrockwell 2009-09-25 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	Is the bull's name actually Ferdinand? I know Rucka likes referencing Denny, but I thought that was only as goes The Question! There has got to be a story there. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-09-25 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	There is! Ferdinand the Bull is a classic children's story. Here:http://www.scribd.com/doc/3230173/Story-of-Ferdinand Here it is in vid form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLsAyb2VG48 (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-09-25 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	Probably one of my two or three favorite kid's stories ever. A tribute to the virtues of not being a jock. And cork trees! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-09-25 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	I have to say, I kind of prefer today's grown-up Talia, as developed by Morrison. This one had no personality besides "My love!" (Reply to this)