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You're quite right, Orion, that something IS going on with Bruce's behavior at the meeting. Chapter 2 will reveal more.

And you're also right that it's Episode 23, not 24. I messed up. A thousand apologies.

It does look suspiciously like he was picking a fight, now doesn't it. I mean, he knows that tiger is an issue.

The closet. Heh, hehehe, heh heh heh, Oh Orion, you're evil. I like that in a reader. hehehehe

Valeria, Hell girl, I don't know what to say. "Thank you SO MUCH" is becoming my byword around here.
You're not alone in that there are at least two of us. I too LOVE these characters, and that's why I write them - if that's what I do, and I'm starting to wonder. It may be that it's them, and not me, who is so damn frustrated with the DC situation they just picked somebody to channel and get their personalities back, and I just get to take the credit.

Anyway, no, you're not alone. DC does seem to be trying to drive readers away, and speaking for myself, they succeeded. I try to be hopeful - the new Loeb run starting next month is the most promising sign we've had in a long time that the drought may be coming to an end at last.

In the meantime, we have the catverse. Long may she twitch her purple-clad tail.

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Orion, as always, you have my wheels a-turnin. Let's listen in.

You're right that the boys & their toys thing is a stereotype, and
I'm sure down deep Barb knows that.

Selina, on the other hand, - I don't know, she may be starting to succumb to the shoe shopping - that trip with Doris, those Ivory pumps. I know, I know, she keeps saying she doesn't get it.
And she's never EVER been in denial about anything, right *coughBatmancough*.

As for Selina and cars, well hm, no she's not a motorhead, and she doesn't get all breathy about the Batmobile or anything. But I'll bet a vintage Jaguar would turn her head. (See if Bruce puts that one together before her birthday rolls around).

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does that make her neither male nor female...who would be more offended by that last -- Selina or Bruce?

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Your lucky day, Orion. Selina didn't find it necessary to get out the claws. She looked at Bruce and asked "What is he blind?"
While Bruce is still plenty riled, he is too heroic to beat up on a blind man.


Anyhoots, moving along

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being so darned competent himself, he's learned to respect that in others, to the point of expecting it once he knows it's there.

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Really good observation. It reminds me of a story about Walt Disney (the man, not that family friendly corporation buying up half of Gotham, I mean Manhattan). When they were making Bambi, Walt wasn't happy with the score, he kept sending it back, saying it wasn't powerful enough. Finally he called the composer in while he was watching dailies (or whatever they call them in animation) for Fantasia. Had them run the fantasia soundtrack with the Bambi forrest fire - saying this was what he had in mind, see how it adds power and drama and a sense of scale.

The composer was speechless: "But Walt," he stammered, "that's Beethoven "
"Yeah" was all Walt replied.

That's what he was expecting from people. That Beethoven was a genius of the kind that comes along once in a century was NOT perceived as too high a goal. They were making art.