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Tweak says, "yo"

kingrockwell (kingrockwell) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-02 12:31:00

Current music:	Gang Of Four ~ "He'd Send In The Army"
Entry tags:	char: question/renee montoya, char: tot/aristotle rodor, creator: cully hamner, creator: greg rucka, medium: model sheets, publisher: dc comics, title: detective comics

Renee's bit from 'Tec 854
I'd been waffling over whether I wanted to post this just yet. I guess I'd had some idea where I'd Start a series on Renee when I was done with Vic, but I'd have so much to go through since I'd want to start at least with her part in Gotham Central if not earlier that by the time I got to her Tec back-up it'd be old hat.

Strike while the iron's hot, they say. Not only that, but I was looking at Cully Hamner's design sketches and there's no way I couldn't share them! There's too much good here.

(2 2/3 pages out of 8)

I really like their setup here, getting cases over the internet and choosing the ones worth investigating. A pro-bono super-P.I. is a really fun idea! Seeing Tot play a running op for Renee also makes me happy, they have a good thing going here. Monty Python quotes are overdone, but it's par for the course when you're dealing over THE INTERNET.

Renee meets up with a potential case. The guy gives her the story.

It's kind of funny how her hair looked black indoors, but the sun's giving it a more brunette tint here. It would be interesting if it were the bonding gas giving it a slightly different color for a bit added anonymity, but she'd have to have a different variant of it or something for that, because...

...She wears Vic's colors as The Question! I could not have squeed more when I saw this. Anyway, she finds what looks like a kidnapping/porn ring (well, there's a camera in front of a bed, what else am I supposed to think?) and runs into the guys behind it on the last page. It's gonna be a showdown!
Can't wait for the next one.

I'd mentioned Cully Hamner's design sketches helped inspire me to make this post, so why not share them?

As we've seen in the story, we have around-the-house Renee, on-the-job Renee, and meeting-a-client Renee respectively.

What no leisure suit? :D
The Question has always been an identity that knows how to accessorize (sometimes really poorly, though!), Renee should be no different.

"Obviously is a total badass" is a wording that always makes me happy for some reason.
And Charlie's hat! Awww. (though i guess it is pre-treated for the bonding gas?)

I want to see her in this suit more often, it is so damn cool. And the "holy shit look at how goddamn cool i look" has always kind of been half the reason I love The Question so much. I mean, look at my icon! If The Question is about any two things, it's getting to the bottom of shit and looking unbelievably cool while doing it.

Cully Hamner's Tot is adorable. I want to adopt him as my grandpa.

What do you guys think?

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	scottyquick 2009-07-03 02:50 am UTC (link)
	OOC, why? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

parsimonia
2009-07-03 03:35 am UTC (link)

It's hard to pinpoint why it bothers me.

With Batwoman, the scene where they're talking about her injury and the way that interaction happens, I felt like you almost could've replaced Kate and her dad with Babs and Commissioner Gordon. (And I am admittedly bitter that Barbara seems kind of shoved off to the sidelines in all this "Batman Reborn" business.)

And while it is perhaps not entirely fair to say this, it kind of bugs me that these two heroes each apparently need to have older men helping them out in order to do their superhero-ing. I mean, obviously no (wo)man is an island and everyone needs support in some form or another, but if this were Vic Sage would he have an old dude helping him out like that? IDK.

In any case, it's nit-picky, and at this point it's probably too soon to judge and it does only bother me a teeny tiny bit.

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	kingrockwell 2009-07-03 03:59 am UTC (link)
	With Tot and Renee it doesn't bug me at all, since Tot was the old dude who used to help Vic out. Though when I saw Kate's dad involved in her operation almost the same way, it did weird me out a bit and I totally see what you mean there. And a big ol' Motto to bitterness at Babs' current absence. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-07-03 04:17 am UTC (link)

Kate's Dad may or may not be involved in the same way - he may simply be aware of her role as Batwoman, and show up in her life every now and then to give her some help - he obviously has a military past, so maybe he gets info from military sources which he occasionally passes down to her. What I think would be interesting would be if her mother was also involved - you don't often see that sort of family dynamic in comics.

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parsimonia
2009-07-03 04:27 am UTC (link)

Well, he was going over what seemed to be an audio recording of Batwoman's outing from the previous night, or at least her interaction with Batman. I guess I just find it hard to wrap my head around the idea of a woman (or man) in her 20s/30s who would be completely cool with their dad effectively eavesdropping on all their conversations, even if it is in the name of Justice.

What I think would be interesting would be if her mother was also involved - you don't often see that sort of family dynamic in comics.

That would be interesting. Especially given the dearth of mothers in the Batverse.

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	kingrockwell 2009-07-03 04:46 am UTC (link)
	Huh, and since Bette's already been mentioned it would be less awkward for them to have two capes in the family if everyone's in on it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-07-03 04:53 am UTC (link)
	True! That would be neat if it was a family operation. A whole other bat-family, at that! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-03 07:20 am UTC (link)
	I see things in Gotham getting massively complicated when Bruce gets back. I mean, if he got all huffy with Babs when she first showed up in costume about 'you have no right to wear that symbol', how's he going to react to a whole family network of batpeople? 'OUT OF MY DAMN CITY! I'll pay your moving bills, just - GO! OUT OUT OUT!' (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-07-03 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	We're supposed to get an explanation of why it's okay for her to wear it by the end of this run. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	parsimonia 2009-07-03 04:20 am UTC (link)
	With Tot and Renee it doesn't bug me at all, since Tot was the old dude who used to help Vic out. Ah, okay. Didn't know that. That makes more sense, then. But glad to know it's not just me with respect to Kate's dad and the Babslessness. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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