Monday, October 13, 2008

Nightwing 38-39

Story- Dick awakens to discover that Barbara has been taking care of him while he was unconscious after showing up at her door and promptly passing out, after Dick's ordeal at Blackgate Prision. While he recuperated and she was caring for him, there was alot of casual flirting and sexual tension in the air. Dick presses her as to why they couldn't be together. She explains that with out the usage of her legs, she feels there they're were certain things she had to leave behind, Dick being one of those things. Babs asks him for time and he says he'll give her whatever time she needs.
Outside Babs building, crooked cops have been trying to breach Babs' defences in order to gain access to all of the massive information she has acquired within the clocktower.
As Dick and Babs finally fall into each others arms in a passionate kiss, the intruders break in and Dick stands ready to guard Babs, but is surprised to find Huntress breaking in the window behind him, to stand against Dick and Babs and with the crooked cops.
The head cop Pettit, seems more than happy to kill Babs and Dick, while Huntress doesn't like that idea at all, since she still holds a flame for Dick. Dick and Babs manage to escape the firefight, thanks to all of Oracle's measures and countermeasures. They manage to escape to the elevator which was supposed to bring them to the garage and a way out. Unfortunately, power is cut to the elevator and the only way to go is to climb the cables atop the elevator. As Dick and Babs make atop the elevator, Huntress has a falling out with the increasingly crazed, Pettit and breaks away from him, landing on top of the elevator with Dick and Babs. Huntress informs the others that she's with them now by default, and slices the elevator cables dropping the 3 heroes to the garage level, as well as making some distance between themselves and the dirty cops. Nightwing, not fully trusting Huntress, tells her she can escape on her own easily through the garage. Huntress repays that information with a steamy kiss with Babs sitting right there. Huntress then takes off. The story closes with Babs and Dick piling into a car to find her father, Commissioner Gordon, as well as the Batman.

Overall- Great little story here!! After reading it, I really want to see alot more of Dick and Babs. They seem to be an almost perfect couple. It looks like it will never be though... Oh well. I also loved Dick's interactions with Huntress as well. The look on Babs face after Huntress and Dick kissed is so funny to look back on in retrospect.
Before that kiss, Babs was thinking that maybe Dick and herself could make it work, but Huntress ruins all those cheery thoughts with her kiss goodbye. Babs must have HATED Huntress' guts. Of course, now, Huntress is currently the field leader of the Birds of Prey, answering only to Babs. It's funny, they could have became blood enemies from that moment, but instead wound up more like sisters.

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