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icon_uk (icon_uk) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-25 23:06:00

Entry tags:

char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, creator: kelley puckett, creator: mike parobeck, publisher: dc comics

Robin and Batgirl = OTP. Dick and Babs = Not so much
I'd hoped to make this a longer post, but alas, I just can't tell the story decently with the 1/3 page limit, so instead I'm focussing on some Batgirl and Robin fun

To cut to the chase; Barbara Gordon is tailing a suspect in a bombing that she foiled as Barbara Gordon. The Mayor is putting pressure on the Commissioner to make an arrest (and to heck with the danger this might mean to Barbara as sole witness), but Gordon wants to hold back until they can get the guy who employed him. Barbara recognises the guy in a mugshot book, but keeps quiet about it so she can sneak off and find him herself.

This next page is the reason I was going to post it at all, aside from the gorgeous Parobeck art... Barbara has tracked the suspect and is staking it out...

Dick's casual "Yeah" there to Bab's really rather snarky question kills me every time! :) He's so completely offhand in a "What else did you think I might have done?" way, that it doesn't even come across as smug or superior. Her reaction is also priceless.

And bear in mind that this incarnation of Babs has been Batgirl for a very short period of time, and probably only has a half dozen missions under her belt, also neither of them knows the other's secret ID.

Dick has rarely looked more adorably alpha male than he does in this pages second panel. (And at the same time, he's asking her for HER advice about a course of action, not leaping in to control it the way his Batdad would... or maybe he just has a conditioned response to defer to someone wearing a pointy eared cowl and a scalloped cape!)

Suffice it to say, that she manages to make it down eight storeys AND throw the tracker on the car just as it pulls away... Again, I like Robin's nonchalance, as he's managed to make it down eight storeys AND deal with three muggers....

So they track the guy down to his bomb making base....

One assumes he includes his time in the circus there... (Oh, and that this might be a commentary on the size of the utility belt Robin's wore back the old pre-Tim Drake revampe days)

And because it's MY post, a couple of gratuitous Robin panels...

The villain is defeated, consipracy uncovered.. yadda, yadda, yadda.... (Actually, it's a lot more fun than yadda, yadda yadda)

Awwww.... isn't that just adorable?

Next day Babs arrives back at Gotham University after her summer vacation (The issue is almost worth it alone for Commissioner Gordon (Who drove her) worrying over whether she has enough towels. Jim Gordon as fussing parent isn't seen often enough) and is slightly lost on campus when....

Oh yeah, unresolved sexual snarking of civilian ID's? Clearly OTP waiting to happen (Except of course, it didn't :( )! Dick should maybe ask Uncle Clark for some advice on that score.

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sistermagpie
2009-05-25 05:39 pm UTC (link)

This is adorable!

If Dick's parents died when he was 8 he could have trained for 6 years and started on the streets at 14, I guess. But I think he's being cagey there anyway. As if he wouldn't know exactly how many years he trained waiting for Bruce to put him on the street!

And I do love that he's always trying to not sound like he's being too arrogant or putting her down for her lack of experience.

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	richiedaley 2009-05-26 02:40 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think they ever mentioned it explicitly, but the DCAU seemed to work under the assumption that Dick started older than the regular universe's version. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-26 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	I don't recall that ever being stated or implied, Dick was small when he came to live at Wayne Manor, and since the Robin costume tiny Tim wore was one of Dick's old ones, he can't have been any older than Tim. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

richiedaley
2009-05-26 03:11 pm UTC (link)

Hmm... I didn't see the Tim origin episode, so I'll say you may be right.

The way that it worked itself out in my mind was that Dick was small when he came to live at Wayne Manor, but this issue of the comic combined with the fact that they never showed us a Robin younger than this (up to this point) combined in my mind to say that he didn't put on the costume till 16-ish.

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	greenmask 2009-05-25 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	I know we dont even see her eating one, but now I reeeeally really want a burger. Also Dick looks like he's trying to laservision her in that last panel. Maybe Uncle Clark could help with that too? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-25 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	I know what you mean, but surely X-Ray vision would be more what he was wishing for! :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-05-25 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	>_< Duh! Can't believe I didn't catch that one. Where IS my mind? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-25 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	A less smutty (but more violent) place than mine, obviously! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sorry, couldn't resist kingrockwell 2009-05-25 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	Way out in the water. See it swimming? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	:] Completely understandable. greenmask 2009-05-25 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	(I picked the phrasing cos that song's just to good to avoid.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	khaosworks 2009-05-25 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	I always thought one of the biggest WTF moments in the Timm/Dini-verse was when they had Babs and Bruce hook up. Not necessarily illogical, but just icky. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-25 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	I think it was the biggest WTF moment in the DCAU for me. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jesidres 2009-05-26 11:32 am UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unknownscribler 2009-05-27 12:02 am UTC (link)
	M to the O to the T T O (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-05-25 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	And somehow the Babs/Bruce relationship gets even creepier. (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-05-25 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	Question, Did Batgirl ever have local to operate out of. I'm think' the trunk in a closet got old quick. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-25 06:13 pm UTC (link)
	Until she became a full member of the Bat-clan as shown in "Old Wounds", not really, no. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lbd_nytetrayn 2009-05-25 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	Was that an ep, or a comic? Either way, I don't think I've seen that one... --LBD "Nytetrayn" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kirayoshi1 2009-05-25 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	It was an episode from the Tim Drake period, told mostly in flashback from Dick's POV, about the last time Dick Grayson saw Batman. He felt betrayed when Bruce revealed the Bat-cave to Barbara(and that he already figured out she was Batgirl) and left to establish the identity of Nightwing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lbd_nytetrayn 2009-05-26 12:29 am UTC (link)
	Ah, I think I might vaguely remember that now. So her joining the fold wasn't the main focus of the ep, then? --LBD "Nytetrayn" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	parsimonia 2009-05-25 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	For some reason, I've always found this version of Dick's civilian clothes absolutely adorable. (Reply to this)

mysteryfan
2009-05-25 07:01 pm UTC (link)

Oh, that's great! I love this, and I'm very wary of any version of them, because, yeah... sometimes it's fun (like this) and other times sad, sad sadness that makes does neither character any favors at all when Dick and Babs try to be a 'real' couple.

This, though? Good, fun, successful teamwork.

Love the setup and characterization in this story. It plays to both of their strengths as characters. She has things to learn but does it without having to prove she's good enough and fighting a father figure. She just learns them. He uses his amazing leadership and people skills, which is always fun to see. Love the lockpicking discussion.

(On a side note, as other posters have noted, Bruce/Babs creeps me out a ton. Ew. Father and son. Ew. Icky for Bruce, even ickier for Babs.)

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	lbd_nytetrayn 2009-05-25 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	...any idea what she's wearing on her legs in the pic where she's holding up the Batgirl costume before putting it away? Looks like some sort of high boots or socks or something, but separate from the shoes... --LBD "Nytetrayn" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-05-25 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Godawful legwarmers, maybe. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-25 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	Also, why does she seem to only have one leg? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unknownscribler 2009-05-27 12:03 am UTC (link)
	I hate the art on Babs. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-27 02:04 am UTC (link)
	I don't HATE it, but her face does seem a tad, eh, broad in parts. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-05-27 06:57 am UTC (link)
	Too broad and too small for both her body and her neck. (Reply to this) (Parent)