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So Floyd is going out with Jeanette, and Scandal lets herself get convinced to take Liana and come with to make it the titular double date (Scandal making Floyd agree to a pact to not kill anyone along the way). First, Liana takes them to a nightclub she knows, where it's apparently superhero night, as everyone's dressed like capes. While Floyd is in the bathroom beating up neo-nazis (a sublimely hilarious subplot that would be worth buying the issue all by itself), a jackass in a Blackhawk costume comes up and tells Liana he's got thirty bucks riding on him taking her home, which is not the worst pickup line I've ever heard, but is nevertheless about as effective as you'd expect. He fails to back off, though, with predictable results.



Scandal's "Yes... no, actually, not quite" there is fabulous. Liana's right, she really is unnervingly adorable here.

Anyway, they go off to a relatively nice restaraunt next.





Floyd has gone off to deal with the neo-nazis again. Jeanette gets sick of them interrupting her date and goes out and takes them all down.



D'aww. Er. In kind of a twisted way.

So, definitely not a way to get Kay back, here, in any way shape or form - no resolution yet on whether that was just a couple of weird teases or something more long-term (Scandal's still got the card, too, after all). Liana's behavior is sort of odd on its own merits, though. She seems like a genuinely decent person, brushes off the "no killing" pact and the hints of the Sixers' true natures as joking all evening and is shocked by Jeanette's casual killing... but she doesn't seem the least perturbed by Scandal's indifference to said killing, and moves on from the whole thing herself in the space of a panel. It will be interesting to see, if she sticks around, how the story navigates around her not being a bad guy and how her willingness to roll with the standard Sixness is explained.

Also... what's with the random Lowly? I figured he'd get explained later in the story but he never did. He's just kind of there. And no resolution whatsoever on Bane. Though given the next ish is the Battle for the Cowl tie-in, saving dealing with him for an issue makes a certain sense.