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calliopes_pen ([personal profile] calliopes_pen) wrote2005-01-13 05:47 pm
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Quick Question For The Essay

I am including a listing of essential trade paperbacks in my essay. For the trade paperbacks that involve their relationship, am I correct in assuming that Batgirl: Year One and Nightwing: The Hunt For Oracle are probably the best two to list?
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[identity profile] smittywing.livejournal.com 2005-01-13 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't bother with Batgirl: Year One, personally. I think A Darker Shade of Justice with the NML bits (#38 and #39) was much more true to the spirit of the characters.
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[personal profile] calliopes_pen 2005-01-14 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
You're right. I read that just a couple of days ago. I can't believe I didn't think of that one.
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[identity profile] smittywing.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
No short-term, memory, you. ;) Just like Memento.
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[personal profile] calliopes_pen 2005-01-14 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
No, I remembered the scene, I just associated it with the wrong trade paperback. :lol:

That's what happens when you buy a lot of trade paperbacks at one time, I assume.

[identity profile] poisonivory.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Ditto on A Darker Shade of Justice. And *nods* for Batgirl: Year One. I haven't read The Hunt For Oracle yet, so I can't say about that one...
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[identity profile] liviapenn.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 12:51 am (UTC)(link)

The Nightwing/Huntress GN also had some good Dick/Babs moments (mainly Babs being jealous, Helena picking up on it, and Dick generally being clueless. *G*)

[identity profile] fair-witness.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'm rather fond of Batgirl: Year One because I think you get a nice sense of how Dick started out with a simple crush on her, which later (I personally mark it after the fight with Mark Desmond) starts turning into love. Actually, you could argue he starts out seeing her as a rival for Batman's attention (the "I can handle her, Batman--she's just a GIRL" scene near the beginning), then recognizes her as the girl he's been crushing on for a while ("I'd know Jim Gordon's daughter anywhere"), a girl he thinks can become his peer in crime-fighting (showing her all the Bat-Cycle features, the motorcycle ride and later kiss in the subway), and then as something more than the target of his teenage hormones (witness his fear for her when she's dangling from the helicopter near the very end of the storyline). You also see Babs changing her opinion of him from that kid who runs around with Batman, to someone she reluctantly accepts as her guide and fellow traveler into Batman's world, and finally as someone who "knows his way around a kiss."
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[identity profile] allisnow.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
*happy sigh*

[identity profile] acidic-jew.livejournal.com 2005-01-14 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Nightwing: Love and Bulets, No Man's Land (I wanna say number 2)
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