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I have a question about this image from Gotham City Sirens #7, and it's probably due to my inability to keep continuity straight in my head amongst the umpty-gazillion Batbooks going on right now. Help me out gang?

Dick and Selina are having a last holiday toast by the fire before Damian drags Dick out to hunt the "animal out there killing runaway kids" (see Batman #694, I believe):

OK, Bruce and Tim, fairly obvious - presumed dead and off in Europe refusing to presume; Holly Robinson, offscreen somewhere trying to live down the shame that was Countdown; Baby Helena, adopted out; Harley and Ivy, off holidaying outside Gotham, as detailed in the other plot threads in this issue (see here for Harley's holiday hijinx).

But why is Alfred an Absent Friend? Last time I checked in with Outsiders, he was going to be running the team from the Cave/Manor, with Halo at least living at Wayne Manor. Has that changed? Is he off on a mission I've missed?

One panel from Gotham City Sirens #7 under the cut, not my scan, we've had 3.5 pages so far which brings us to just over 4 pages don't make me add fractions!.

Tag suggestions: char: alfred pennyworth, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: batman/dick grayson, char: catwoman/holly robinson, char: catwoman/selina kyle, char: harley quinn/harleen quinzel, char: poison ivy/pamela isley, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, creator: david lopez, creator: paul dini, publisher: dc comics, title: gotham city sirens (whew!)

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I didn't know these two were this friendly.

This along with the pool scene and the fact that they made-out during Dixon's Nightwing run, I think Bruce is going to need an year's worth of brain bleach if those ever hit it off, that goes double for Oracle and everyone else. Technically, if Dick/Selina becomes canon, wouldn't that be a case of 'making-out with your step mom' ? Thus, making it Dick's second MILF relationship (I think he went on a date with Kate Spencer in the Manhunter back-ups).

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okay, I was just thinking out loud there.

Looking at the tag list for suggestions, I did consider the fact that we have a "in-joke: batcest" tag, but decided this wasn't quite blatant enough.

Well if you plan to post the make-out scene from Dixon's run or the pool scene from Tony Daniel's tenure in the future, that would certainly be an appropriate tag.

Well, their so-called make-out session was a joke for Dick. IIRC, he burst out laughing after it. I think the fact that Selina was trying to make Bruce jealous by trying to hook up with Dick was incredulous to the latter, and Dick never had aspirations towards Selina. So the whole Dick/Selina thing was nipped in the bud right there.

But WTF is this build-up in the current series? Dick/Selina? So after Bruce/Babs in the DCAU we have Dick/Selina in current continuity?

Damn it, Dini. WTF?

Woah, due calm down. I was just kidding. There is no build-up for Dick/Selina or anything like that. I was just thinking out loud there.

In Batman, that pool scene implication can be dismissed as a one-shot fluke. But to repeat that implication in GCS, well...Let's just say that I'm worried.

No need to worry, it was Tony Daniel that wrote that pool scene and there was no sub-text or hints of a relationship there. Plus, Selina is basically his step-mom, so their relationship is mostly familial/allies.

Well, that's what you get for thinking out loud here in S_D. A worried fangirl is the least of them.

Noted.

It wasn't even sexy--between the two of them. They are sexy people, but I didn't pick up on vibes of sexy between them at all. In Batman um... 694 (?) or in this. I really think it's that they are both just sexy. But not sexy at each other.

Here we go, the pool scene was in Batman #692, posted here. s_d reports, you decide!

Heh. Hey, yeah. I posted that! I still stand by my earlier dealio.

Well, they're both sexy, they might as well make sexy time.

Sexily.

Heh. I hope they don't though. But true about the sexy. Sexily.

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jelly_ace - 2009-12-30 04:51 (UTC) - Expand

I don't think he's really building up Dick/Selina. They're just bonding over missing Bruce. Unfortunately neither of them can not be hot so when they get together it looks like sexual tension--even though it's not really directed at each other.

Kon, Cassie, Tim. I rest my case.

But this would be more like Clark, Lois, Kon.

Nah, I think Kon likes Lana better. Heh.

In any case, it's the same trope. Close friend/relative of dead person comforts significant other of said dead person in romantic/sexual way to deal with said dead person's...death, and regret it later.

I dunno if TVTropes has this one...

Oh, I don't deny the trope. I just haven't yet seen them really going that way since they're not so much comforting each other as dealing with each other with a mixture of respect and wariness--at least that's how it comes across to me so far. Not that I would put it past some writer to try to do it, weird as that would be.

jelly_ace - 2009-12-29 06:10 (UTC) - Expand

Well, he was only laughing about it when he realised Selina wanted him to tell Batman all about it. At the time, he wasn't objecting, and she was certainly enjoying it, on a purely physical level.

The way Dixon wrote her in that issue was kind of extreme, though. All about pleasure and excitement, with no concern for the consequences.

And none of what's been written since Dick took over as Batman makes me think the writers are going there, with the two of them. The art work is a different matter, what with Selina's ridiculously skimpy swimsuit, and the thigh high split in her dress.

But it seems that, unfortunately, Dick is probably going to be stuck in another rut with Babs before too long. You know, where he tries to make her happy, and she just gripes and complains about every single thing he does.

But it seems that, unfortunately, Dick is probably going to be stuck in another rut with Babs before too long. You know, where he tries to make her happy, and she just gripes and complains about every single thing he does.

And just generally seems to not like him. She seems to really not like him, a lot of the time. Somebody recently pointed out to me how the writers haven't even found a way to make her even say something kind to him about the loss of Bruce. So it's odd to me that the powers that be might want to start the whole sad deal of their romantic relationship again.

Do you know what issue of Nightwing that happened in?

Not sure. I saw it posted here a long time ago. You can ask icon-uk once he starts posting again. He is the Alpha-Nightwing fan around here I believe.

Don't want to step on Icon's toes and I really don't care for the story, but it's NW 52.

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