I think she hero-worships Batman more than Dick does, and that's really saying something.

He's pretty damned close to her totality, isn't he? She traded out her father for a kindler, gentler taskmaster. And when Bats is a kinder version of anyone, you know you're handling some damaged goods. I mean, she likes Barbara well enough, but she doesn't really get mad at Batman the way she can get mad with other people.

Love her!

I've finally ordered all the Batgirl TPBs. I've read the torrents, and I've been collecting myself since the mid 40s, but I need to own as much as possible. Torrented comics are to me what Napster is to audiophiles -- I also need to get Y and Ex in hardcopy.

He's pretty damned close to her totality, isn't he?

I've re-read the current issue of Batgirl about 50 times, and I have something in my mind that's trying to become cogent, about how Cass and Tim are, put together, the ideal aspects of Batman (Cass, for her fighting skillz and Tim for his freaky obsessive detective skillz).

how Cass and Tim are, put together, the ideal aspects of Batman (Cass, for her fighting skillz and Tim for his freaky obsessive detective skillz).

Does that make Dick his moral center?

Does that make Dick his moral center?

Nah. Moral center is Leslie. And Jim Gordon. Dick is the thing what keeps him tied to the world of the humans even when he really doesn't want to be.

And it's just possible I've thought about this way too freakin' much.

Does that make Dick his moral center?

Maybe his chewy nougat centre.

I picked up a copy of Batman & Superman recently -- the one where Supergirl "dies." Bats is saying he thought Superman's response to her being threatened is how he'd have responded to hearing that Jason wasn't dead, and that he had to protect him, but then changed his mind and said it was more like him and Dick and the letting go.

Then Superman apologised for the Jason barb, and Batman said it was okay.

How incredibly frustrating to not have had the in-title backstory to muddle through those analogies, and I'd love to know what the barb was.

Dick is the thing what keeps him tied to the world of the humans even when he really doesn't want to be.

My head, and I curse you for this, just mapped Dick on Dawn and pictured Bruce as Buffy.

Which was fine, until I started remaking Smashed and my brain decided to cast the Spectre (Hal version) as Spike, and now I can't find the bleach and scrubbers.

My head, and I curse you for this, just mapped Dick on Dawn and pictured Bruce as Buffy.

At your service, madam.

The Spike/Hal bit, however, is totally your own responsibility.

Anyway, isn't he more Angel? I mean, We are the Spectre. Vengeance calls. Victims cry out for justice. Blah, blah, blah..

Anyway, isn't he more Angel? I mean, We are the Spectre. Vengeance calls. Victims cry out for justice. Blah, blah, blah..

Hal and Spike are tied for the fancrazy awards, though. Besides, Hal's more like Spike personality-wise, all cocky and shit.

and pictured Bruce as Buffy.

Batman: Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot.

Nightwing: Ah, yeah. Look, Bruce--that speech? Much more convincing if you weren't wearing heels.

Robin: How does he fight crime in those, anyway?

Nightwing: I think that's why he's the superhero and we're the sidekicks.

Batman: You just don't understand my pain.

Hal's more like Spike personality-wise, all cocky and shit.

Oh, sure. Just because he was a test pilot.