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thebigapricot (thebigapricot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-05 08:22:00

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char: fire/beatriz da costa, char: huntress/helena bertinelli, char: maxwell lord, creator: j.m. dematteis, creator: keith giffen, series: huntress is awesome week, title: justice league of america

Huntress is Awesome Week: Huntress Joins the JLA
Someone posted a line here once about Huntress that cracked me up (please claim it if it's yours) "She's so crazy, she's Batman's Batman." Crazy Huntress is an image that's she had (and at times deserved) and still has for those not overly familiar with the character. (i.e. BFTC "The Network") Here's a look at a time in the early part of Helena's career showing just how awesome, competent and uncrazy she could be. From the September 1999 issue of Justice League of America are 7 pages telling how she joined the JLA.

Some nimrod from New Jersey has stolen Barda's megarod and is going to NYC to cause havoc. Scott tries to warn him that rod is powerful, can only be used by those with training. The nimrod calls Mr. Miracle "a freaking wimp" and rides a boom tube to the city (which is, if you think about it, a much better way to go, then say, by the subway or driving though the tunnel.)

Other members of the JLA are called in. Well, really just Bea.

Wouldn't it be cool to see Bea and Helena working together again?

Helena/Huntress is indeed awesome. She has saved the Bronx and the rest of NYC and she's saved Barda and Bea. Mr. Miracle goes to see Max Lord to recommend her for the league telling him that Helena "took charge of the situation and had everything under control before I knew it. A couple of months' experience and she'd give Batman a run for his money."

Wow, that's quite a statement. And poor Helena will spend the next 15 years just trying to get a "good job" from Bats.

Oh, she looks so cute and happy and hopeful there. I wish we could get more of that :(
Edited to add:(but without the mind control or in the case of when she was joining the Birds, Babs manipulation)

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	jlbarnett 2009-10-05 09:59 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think there's anyway she could have meant for it to happen. THere's no way to guarentee he'd be triggering it just as she shot him, which way it would point when it landed. She could certainly be hoping it would happen but if she was actually planning on it happening or even trying to make it happen she's a little to confident in her abilities. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-10-06 12:56 am UTC (link)

On a purely logical basis I agree with you, but this is comics, where people (specifically, Batman, who is intrinsically a point of comparison with Huntress) are allowed to be Just That Good. That is to say, if that were a mistake, despite it being completely incomprehensibly impossible to predict or anticipate, Batman nevertheless would never have made it. And if it's possible to avoid, it's possible to do on purpose (at least, by his thematic foil, it could be).

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