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ebailey140 (ebailey140) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-01 20:39:00

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char: batgirl/cassandra cain, char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: harley quinn/harleen quinzel, char: poison ivy/pamela isley, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, publisher: dc comics

When Harley was Batgirl
One from the old S-D...

Harley doing what she does best, proof that Cass can be expressive behind that mask, and Tim getting molested! What more can you ask for?

Once again, it's the team of Kesel and the Dodsons.

Harley's having a problem. Bad guys are targeting her. She's just had to take down Killer Croc, and knows more will be after her. What will our heroine do?

As she's thinking about this, a bat flies to the window. It's a sign. She announces, "I shall become a bat." One of her henchmen, Matches Malone, is rather alarmed at this, for some reason. She sets on her mission to strike terror in the Underworld, especially the ones nosing too close to her hideout. She drops Croc with the cops (literally) and they call in that Killer Croc was just dropped off by Batgirl. This gets Barbara's attention, and she contacts Cass for confirmation...

Tim makes the distress call. Dick's on his way. Babs asks what the situation is. Tim says it has to do with...

Harley slips off when the chaos ensues.

Babs finds Harley's hideout, and sends Dick, Tim, and Cass. Batman is already there, as we see here...

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/25954.html

Babs wishes she could go with them, one more time. She doesn't want the last person to wear her costume to be Harley Quinn.

As the story concludes, she needn't have worried.

And so, it's off to Metropolis.

Since, Clayface has worn the costume. Between Harley and Selina, I wouldn't be surprised if Holly Robinson's worn it a few times, too. :)

Scans from Harley Quinn #10-12. #12 was 31 pages.

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	bluefall 2009-04-02 01:17 pm UTC (link)
	Cassie is better than Shiva, for crying out loud. Cass is not, however, superhuman. (Well, theoretically.) Harley is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	arrlaari.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	Harley is. Wait what? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-04-02 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	A side effect of the immune-to-poison treatment Ivy gave her. (Reply to this) (Parent)

sailorlibra
2009-04-02 11:09 pm UTC (link)

As are Clayface and Poison Ivy. While the storyline is cute, I hate how incompetent the batfamily appears. They're used to fighting superhumans and shouldn't have quite this much trouble.

But, of course, if Harley's captured, the story ends, so the batfamily can't succeed. I only wish there had been a way to let Harley get away without the Batfamily seeming ridiculously incompetent.

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bluefall
2009-04-03 12:17 am UTC (link)

Cass, actually, was kept away from metahumans. She had very little experience with them, particularly in hand-to-hand, and Bruce definitely didn't let her near anyone remotely on Ivy or Clayface's level if he could help it. And this was early in her career, well before the one time she fought Ivy (which job she needed Bruce's backup to finish anyway).

I don't think they come off incompetent here at all. Harley doesn't just have the edge psychologically here, she's got a whole knife drawer. She's spitting on their *fallen.* None of them are calm or thinking straight, and even with that, she still needs backup from an entire barfull of thugs to make her escape... after which they immediately find her, bag her and hand her over to the authorities. Win for the Bat-team. They're not the ones who let her get away.

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ebailey140
2009-04-03 02:39 am UTC (link)

They didn't actually bag her, that issue. After she bogged Batman down with henchmen, she completed her master plan for the evening, which was to play matchmaker for two of the detectives that had been chasing her for months. She let them catch her, with Ivy in the Batgirl costume arriving to collect her, before the Bat crew made it to that room. She knew it was only a matter of time, though, so she and Ivy skipped town.

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	parsimonia 2009-04-03 09:15 am UTC (link)
	I keep meaning to ask, what is that image in your icon from? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-04-03 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	It's a trippy sort of maybe-spiritual hallucination by a guy running around during NML. Fun little Huntress story, among other things, I should post it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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