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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-02 00:38:00

Entry tags:

char: batgirl/cassandra cain, char: lady shiva/sandra woosan, char: mr. freeze/victor fries, char: nyssa al ghul, creator: andersen gabrych, creator: pop mhan, publisher: dc comics, series: martial arts week, title: batgirl

Cass vs. Zombies

T'was back at the end of her original series it happened, as a result of Nora Fries being chucked into a Lazarus Pit by Mr Freeze at Cass' suggestion.

Unfortunately for Victor and Cass the result was Nora becoming a flaming, nude woman with acid/resurrection powers who named herself a corny supervillainess name.

This is what happened.

Build an alchemical pit that raises the dead on a mass grave of "ethnically cleansed" people. An example of the stellar foreplanning that is Nyssa al Ghul.

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	interrobamf 2009-09-01 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Lazara. Never come back. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xammax 2009-09-02 04:15 am UTC (link)
	In fact be ignored so a good plot line can continue. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-09-01 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the post! So, what ultimately happened to Lazara? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-09-01 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	She ran off with Victor chasing her, and she evidently vanished into the ether. Presumably erased by Superboy Prime or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	his_spiffyness 2009-09-02 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Well, it's a better fate that this I guess.I definitely prefer the Animated series bittersweet ending with Nora getting cured and Victor leaving to go live in the Arctic. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pmagod 2009-09-02 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Didnt that end with Freeze coming back afterwards and then nora dying? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	statham1986 2009-09-02 12:30 pm UTC (link)
	She remarried after a while, to the person who helped cure her, as I recall, and Victor promptly became more detached from humanity, hence his appearance in The New Batman Adventures as a head-on-legs thing, before he became sorta-human again in Batman of the Future, at which point Nora probably was dead, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-09-02 12:04 am UTC (link)
	Wow... that's... painful, in all sorts of ways, and I'm not a huge Batgirl fan. (Reply to this)

	mxlm 2009-09-02 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Why does Cass have to ask if the zombies are alive? She just wants to be super extra sure? "Okay, there's no heartbeat and the internal organs are exposed and I can see the pelvic and hip bones, not to mention the spine, but I can't be certain they're dead. Yo, Shiva! They alive?" (Reply to this) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-09-02 12:18 am UTC (link)
	Well she's never encountered Zombies before. Better to err on the side of caution. Sides, they all might just be guys in costumes. Like they were doing all this down the road from a Scooby Doo villains convention and they all came to find out what was going on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-09-02 12:21 am UTC (link)
	I think that she meant alive as in sentient or something. Rather than mindless cannibal things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vignettelante 2009-09-02 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Indeed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	geoffsebesta 2009-09-02 12:33 am UTC (link)
	If I had a nickel for every time that's happened to me... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zippthorn 2009-09-02 02:31 am UTC (link)
	That's not Shiva. That's ~~ignore girl~~Nyssa al-Ghul, moronic older sister to Talia (who was made evil by her because of stupid plots in the Batbooks) and whom we don't need to talk of, again. Ever. Ever. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-09-02 03:13 am UTC (link)
	You're a fan of Talia but you dislike Nyssa? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zippthorn 2009-09-02 04:19 am UTC (link)
	Talia was awesome in the 70s. Nyssa was never awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-09-02 05:29 am UTC (link)
	To this day I don't really understand what Rucka was trying to do with D&tM. I get that Talia had become really problematic, but that... didn't really help, and Nyssa lacked both the credibility (... yes, the... heretofore unseen other daughter of Ra's, of... course) and the hook (aka relationship with Batsy) to take her place. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-09-02 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	Talia was awesome in the 70s. I'd have to see it to believe it. Nyssa, on the other hand, says some incredibly interesting things to Cass in Batgirl. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zippthorn 2009-09-03 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Here's a hint: the DCAU Talia, who is cool and femme fatalley, was based on her appearances in the 70s (and some in the 80s). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-09-02 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Well I, for one, would like to see more of the quirky adventures of Victor and Nora Fries. Bring on the supervillains trashing Gotham with their Jerry Springer-esque marital squabbles, followed by (literally) steamy make-up sex! (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-09-02 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Nyssa al Ghul ? who's this . who is her mother ect. ? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shanejayell 2009-09-02 12:32 am UTC (link)
	Half sister to Talia. Other than that, dunno. First appeared in Batman: Death of the Maidens, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	interrobamf 2009-09-02 02:27 am UTC (link)
	Yes, groomed as a replacement for Rā's al Ghūl. She only showed up in Death of the Maidens and this, and then died off-panel in Robin OYL, a victim of Cassandra's suckage. Yeah, not the most successful villain. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zippthorn 2009-09-02 02:32 am UTC (link)
	The only good thing about Evil Cassandra. (Reply to this) (Parent)

seawolf10
2009-09-03 01:11 am UTC (link)

Well, people have gotten most

Nyssa's mother was a Russian Jew in the late 1700s. (I don't think she was ever named in the story.) Ra's had business in Russia, wanted a bedwarmer for the freezing winter, didn't realize he'd gotten the woman pregnant before he left her.

Nyssa was 20-something when her mother died of disease. She went looking for Ra's, eventually found him, and became his apprentice for a century or so.

I've got the story Nyssa originally appeared in (Batman: Death and the Maidens), if you'd like me to post some scans from that.

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	seawolf10 2009-09-03 01:19 am UTC (link)
	Sorry, that first line should read: "Well, people have gotten most of the information posted already, but to answer what I can..." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-09-02 12:29 am UTC (link)
	Calling it! Lazara will be the KEY to stopping the Black Lanterns! gets booed off the site (Reply to this) (Thread)

	salad_barbarian 2009-09-02 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	I was saying boo-urns. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	vignettelante 2009-09-02 12:35 am UTC (link)
	I wonder what their body language looked like to her. Also, where'd that one zombie get a big knife from? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-09-02 02:14 am UTC (link)
	It's an Ubu that Lazara killed earlier. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zippthorn 2009-09-02 02:33 am UTC (link)
	I wonder what their body language looked like to her. Probably the same as human, she doesn't seem to be thrown by it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zechs27 2009-09-02 01:28 am UTC (link)
	Isn't that why Freeze is in Firestorm? He's lying low from Lazara and hooked up with Killer Frost? (Reply to this)

	aegof.livejournal.com 2009-09-02 03:17 am UTC (link)
	I must be one of the only people in the world who thinks Lazara was kinda a neat idea. Not sure I like how it went, though. (Reply to this)

	oath5 2009-09-02 03:22 am UTC (link)
	See I like Cass's costume with the eye and mouth parts ripped off....she should have kept this look and not gone berserko evil! (Reply to this)

	mysteryfan 2009-09-02 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	Go Cass. I like watching her process her thoughts here. (Reply to this)

	runespoor7 2009-09-02 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	"Are they alive?" ilu Cass. "Because I can." ilu Batgirls. (Reply to this)

bariman1987
2009-09-03 04:37 am UTC (link)

That's kind of my fear when it comes to fresh zombies. Yes, they're trying to eat me, but for all I know The Virus can be cured and they could be normal again.

Unless they're horribly decayed like we see here. In that case, let's bring out the heavy weapons!

Damn I love Cass. And the cowl sans lenses and face cover looks very cool. Kinda like when Cass went out in Babs's old Batgirl costume and Robin got so distracted by her hotness he got knocked out by a thug.

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psychop_rex
2009-09-05 05:01 am UTC (link)

If it's any consolation, you wouldn't be fighting real zombies, anyway. Despite what Hollywood says, those things ain't friggin' zombies. Zombies have nothing to do with radiation or viruses or hell spitting things out or what have you. Zombies are mindless undead servants under the thrall of a voodoo master - they do not eat brains. They do not eat anything. They're DEAD.
(Sorry, pet peeve. Anyway, a tip - if you ever DO run into some genuine zombies, and their mouths happen to be open a bit, throw some salt into them. If a zombie tastes salt, he remembers he's dead, and heads back to his grave. Word to the wise.)

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	psychop_rex 2009-09-05 04:55 am UTC (link)
	So at what point did Cass switch costumes to something closer to the old Batgirl outfit? Where's her stitched-up Spider-Mannish hood? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	darthnat 2009-09-05 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	She didn't. It's the same costume, but Shiva busted out her eye lenses and tore off the part covering her mouth earlier in the storyline. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-05 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, I see. Mean ol' Shiva, ruining the visuals. (Reply to this) (Parent)