Comments on: Your Mileage May Vary: Detective Comics #857

By: Johnny Flash

Johnny Flash — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:01:20 +0000

Maybe their father should have recognized his daughter under some white make up, but investigative reporter Lois Lane didn’t figure out Superman was just behind a pair of glasses for decades…

Suspension of disbelief for me!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:15:13 +0000

“If Alice (as she claims) has the same father as Batwoman, wouldn’t said father have RECOGNIZED her, even with white face paint?”

Uh, didn’t Batwoman’s father call Alice “Beth” when they got on the plane? If that happened (I’m at work and don’t have the comic in front of me, so I may be misremembering it.), doesn’t that mean he did recognize her?

By: Amit

Amit — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:38:21 +0000

I’m fairly certain that the Alice stuff will be cleared up in the next arc, which is supposed to be Kate’s origin story, iirc.

By: Stefan Yong

Stefan Yong — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:00:38 +0000

Hey, cheers for the link.

By: Ian Thal

Ian Thal — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:21:24 +0000

If Alice (as she claims) has the same father as Batwoman, wouldn’t said father have RECOGNIZED her, even with white face paint?

I’m a mime and so I use face paint quite often. You would be surprised how many people who have trouble recognizing me the first time they see me with my “other” face.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:02:35 +0000

The only thing that would make me drop this is if Rucka was writing at Loeb or Robinson levels of bad and I’d still be tempted to buy it just for the art. But instead the script is merely “good” and doesn’t intrude with Williams’ art in anyway.

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:08:36 +0000

I have it sitting in my box. I still have to read it, but having flipped through it JHWIII’s looked the best has yet and I’ll stick with the series as long as he’s on it.