Shielding his eyes, Daitakerou risked a glance around the rubbish skip he had taken cover behind, the transmitter for the bomb still in one hand. The incredible light of the fuel-air explosion was already starting to fade, and as the roar of the detonation died away the Siamese cat could hear the the unmistakable sounds of window glass shattering and falling like rain onto the pavement. Daitakerou ignored the cries and moans of the injured and dying, instead straining his eyes against the dying glare in search of what he hoped he wouldn't find. But just as his hopes were rising that his plan was successful, a dark silhouette of a figure gradually emerged from the fireball, striding purposefully towards the astonished Daitakerou. He gasped with disbelief, his eyes blinking furiously as he struggled to focus: surely no-one could survive such a blast from a fully-laden LPG tanker at ground zero -

But there was no mistake: Super Collie had emerged practically unscathed from the trap that Daitakerou had laid for her. Her long hair whirled about her in the eddying air-currents, her cape flapping behind her as she marched unerringly towards Daitakerou's position with her shepherd's staff gripped before her in both hands, kicking through strewn wreckage and shoving aside obstacles like polystyrene rocks on a movie set. And as she drew steadily closer, the shocked Siamese cat saw Super Collie's eyes filled with a fury as white-hot as the fireball that had failed to consume her.

Inspired by and based on a Jim Lee sketch of Batman in "ImagineFX" magazine, issue 67 (March 2011). Background is of a stock explosion photo, tarted up with additional smoke and fire textures.