"The City says....Gotham says...you serve me better this way than you ever did before."
♥ !
What I'm curious about is, did Oracle know that Huntress would be there? Why did she tell him to go there? I mean, barring the possibility of the spirit of Gotham influencing her there, why? (Because if she were to just assume that he was crazy or lost or needed help, it would have made more sense for her to tell him to head out of the city, so he could make it before the bridges blow.)
and certianly Helena came up with the tagging, which was the single most important thing anybody on the ground did all year
This. That's one element I've always loved about No Man's Land. And I could be wrong, but I kind of assumed that the similarity between the look of the bat-tags and the bat-symbol on Helena's, and then Cass's, bat-suit fits so well. Not just visually, but because Helena set out to be "the Bat", that presence in the city that instills both fear and hope. It was the symbol of the Bat that she saw was needed, not necessarily Batman. And then you have Cass, who is devoted to the idea/symbol of the Bat, and considering that her life as Batgirl began in Gotham during No Man's Land, that same version of the Bat-symbol makes perfect sense for her as well.
But yeah, I love the idea that Gotham, when considered holistically, is some kind of sentient/semi-sentient creature on its own, so this is neat.
I really would like to see, like, an animated series (on direct-to-DVD I guess, since that's the trend now) of No Man's Land. And it would have to be a series, or several little movies, because there's so freaking much in that arc. I've read the novelization and really enjoyed it (Greg Rucka wrote it), but from the portions of the NML comic I've read, there was crapload that got cut out.