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Tweak says, "Use the Force!"

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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	jlbarnett 2009-11-01 02:46 am UTC (link)
	of course playing it could make her into a villain in Lois' eyes in which case the threat of exposing Oracle would just change to I'll discredit and expose you. Lois isn't afraid of Lex Luthor. Oracle has nothing Lex doesn't also have. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jaybee3
2009-11-01 03:10 am UTC (link)

Yes. That's why I think Lois comes out of this looking better. She did not come into this meeting thinking of exposing Oracle only for said Oracle to threaten her and her husband. Lois Lane does not like being threatened, Lex couldn't do it and he was both (at different times) a spurned suitor, the owner of the Daily Planet and the frikken' President of the United States.

There could have been some real drama here if Lois had not only called bluff but told Babs that although she had no intention of exposing her in the beginning, Oracle's clumsy attempts at blackmail had made her decide to do it after all. That's what Lois Lane is like - you do not mess with her (she's been a famous reporter since Barbara was a teenager, after all). Then Barbara would have looked even more stupid.

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	unknownscribler 2009-11-04 07:06 am UTC (link)
	Lex didn't have the correlation between Superman and the Kents (Reply to this) (Parent)

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