I Liked This Page

First order of business: The link at the end of yesterday's post actually takes you where it is supposed to, now that I've spelled "genius" correctly. Hat tip to Matthew.

I'm very tired tonight for some reason, so simple post. Here's one page from Red Robin #10.
I saw a person online critiquing Batgirl's technique, saying a person wouldn't (or shouldn't) use those moves in the order she did. Certainly the kick seems a bit unwieldy for disarming an opponent, but whatever works. I'm impressed her cape vanished for a panel. The kick had such power the shockwave from it blew the cape clean of her shoulders. Which is good, because it means she has one of those easily detachable capes, which helps to avoid embarrassing moments where one gets hung up because of the cape. No getting sucked into turbines because of her cape for Stephanie Brown, nor sirree!

I love Tim's "Holy crap" there at the bottom. Note that, surprised as he is, he still caught the gun. He had an internal monologue on the previous page when Prudence pointed the gun at Stephanie about how there was nothing he could do, Steph was going to die, it was all his fault, he should have worked harder to make her give up crimefighting, but he was thinking with his heart and not his head, and now she's doomed, oh no. Then this page, and well, never mind, she's OK.

It turns out the gun is empty, suggesting Pru wasn't actually going to kill Batgirl, at least not with a gun (or perhaps not with a gun while Tim was around). Why did she bother to point an unloaded gun at Stephanie? Maybe she thought it would scare Steph, and found that funny. I'm guessing she wasn't expecting a beating. She should count herself lucky she wasn't dealing with Cassandra Cain, or she'd have been on the ground before the gun was halfway out of its holster.

That's all I have for tonight. Good night, everybody.