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starwolf_oakley (starwolf_oakley) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-05 17:37:00

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char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, char: black canary/dinah lance, char: huntress/helena bertinelli, creator: gail simone, creator: joe bennett, title: birds of prey

BOP #68: A canary or a "mock"ing bird? or The Sexual History of Helena Bertinelli
The first page of Cry For Justice #2 has caused some controversy on this board and elsewhere. But it's not like that kind of "behavior" is unheard of in Huntress' history.

First, Babs and the girls talk about Savant, who kidnapped Black Canary and chained her to a ~~fridge~~ bed.

Uh-oh. Anyone know the exact issues?

This was revealed in OUTSIDERS #12, but not the circumstances. Nightwing must have told Oracle. Because that's not weird at all.

Ah, so Roy is "quick to let fly." No wonder Cheshire got pregnant!

Well, give she's now about Roy's age due to that Lazarus Pit dip, it's less "mother and son" these days.

How does that date go?

Sheesh, I thought they only kept the masks on in ULTIMATE or ALL-STAR stories. Supposedly Gail Simone wrote this so Helene could find realize she deserved better in the romance department. Is a threesome with Hal Jordan and Lady Blackhawk really better? Well, I doubt they'd keep their masks on.

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starwolf_oakley
2009-08-06 03:55 pm UTC (link)

I didn't intend us to start talking about Tarantula and Devin Grayson when I posted these pages, but...

Regarding Devin Grayson's "Born Again 2: Electric Boogaloo" story in NIGHTWING, *Blockbuster* was there to fuck up Dick's life. He had found out Nightwing's secret ID, had killed some of Dick's friends and was threatening to kill strangers that Dick passed in the street. Then Tarantula shoots Blockbuster and Nightwing lets her.

Tarantula wanting to "ride" Nigthwing on a rainy rooftop about a still-cooling corpse is pretty "out there." But it made me wonder more about what Tarantula was thinking instead of Devin Grayson.

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sistermagpie
2009-08-06 04:07 pm UTC (link)

But it made me wonder more about what Tarantula was thinking instead of Devin Grayson.

Oh, me too. I didn't mean to imply that I read that scene wondering what DG was getting out of it. I just meant that taking a step back when the whole story is over I think the scene raises huge questions in terms of what a lot of people were thinking. DG's might be interesting too--it was a very unusual choice to include the scene, which basically take Dick at his lowest point and then has him go even lower by having him get sexually assaulted when he was vulnerable.

It's true that Blockbuster was the one literally fucking up his life, but I feel like Tarantula was there to support him in doing it in a meta sense. I mean, Dick being targetted by Blockbuster would have been bad enough but it seems like having Tarantula there did make it worse. When it's all over his main problem seems to be Blockbuster's death. At the end Tarantula got rid of Blockbuster and inserted herself-literally-as the person violating him.

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