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Tweak says, "i titally love you"

sailorlibra (sailorlibra) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-31 16:21:00

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char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: lois lane, creator: gail simone, creator: nicola scott, publisher: dc comics, title: birds of prey

When Babs met Lois Lane
From Gail's run on BoP comes one of my favorite Lois showings in a non-Superman book.

Context: Babs is in trouble with a government agent she used to know who is seeking to control her. While she's talking to Katarina--the government agent--someone interrupts them. (Note that the first two scans are from BoP 101, whereas the rest are from BoP 102, thus staying within the scan number limits.)

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warpedhand
2009-11-01 01:41 am UTC (link)

I think the antagonism might come more from the fact that both women alienated Superman and Batman by proxy than anything. I'm not saying they wouldn't help, obviously, I'm just saying that it's a situation that would affect more than the relationship between Babs, Lois, and Superman. Of course, it's still silly to think about.

I still like this more as Babs meeting her Super counterpart than anything else.

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	bluefall 2009-11-01 01:43 am UTC (link)
	Interesting. I don't think Babs really has a Super counterpart, post-Crisis, but if I had to pick one I'd have said Steel before I said Lois. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	warpedhand 2009-11-01 02:05 am UTC (link)
	I don't mean as a dispatcher or supervisory role or whatever, but the more information side of things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bluefall
2009-11-01 02:29 am UTC (link)

Sure, but all of the Bats are information-gathering. I suppose Lois is better at it than Clark, the primary hero, just as Babs is better at it than Bruce, the primary hero, but that role doesn't really have meaning in a Super story the way it does in a Bat story, so it wouldn't occur to me as a point of comparison. I was thinking more in terms of John being the same kind of foil to Clark as Babs is to Bruce - both originally joined up of their own accord due to admiration for the symbol and an innate sense of responsibility, rather than the standard relation to the hero (shared tragedy in Bruce's case, the theme of family in Clark's), both typically serve in a consulting capacity rather than a physical ass-kicking one since neither is on a physical par with the others in the franchise, both have satellite legacies and young charges of their own who are more about their thing than the original guy's thing.

Okay, so now I've totally talked myself into desperately wanting to see John and Babs have a team-up.

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