#batman 633

[horsechestnut]

I just think it's really neat how much fans have latched onto the fact that Stephanie Brown was Robin.

Like, both in and out of universe Stephanie was never meant to be taken seriously as Robin. The writers only made her Robin so that her death in War Games would be shocking and Bruce only made her Robin because he thought it would make Tim jealous enough to come back. She only had the mantle for 71 days before being fired (for doing something that literally every other Robin has also done and not been fired over), and she was only active during 50 of them. There are only six issues where Steph is Robin in the canon timeline.

Her final words before her death are asking Batman (Batman, because even on her death bed he doesn't trust her enough to take off his mask) if any of it was real. Was she really Robin? And Batman assures her that of course she was, that she was part of the legend and no one can take it away from her. Except it's a lie, because despite his reassurances, Batman never puts up a memorial or does anything to preserve her memory. He never really thinks of her as Robin, and even her friends will always think of her as Spoiler before ever remembering Robin.

Meanwhile DC spent years ignoring her time as Robin, to the point where it was completely erased from existence for awhile. It's technically back now, because timelines are weird, but unlike the others it's never been altered. She's never been given a second chance at it, no one's ever gone back and added more issues or details about those 71 days, or even seems to want to acknowledge them most of the time.

But fans have clung on to it anyway. Sure, there are lots of people who make Robin posts that are just about the boys, but there are just as many people who are ready to fight anyone who doesn't include her. Maybe it was only for a little while, but she was Robin, and we're sure as hell not going to forget it. If DC isn't going to bother to remember, than we will.

Stephanie Brown was Robin. She was part of the legend. It was real. No matter what, no one can take that away from her.

#i know she's a fictional character and her dying words don't actually matter #but also I just think it's really fascinating to look at the similarities between how Steph was treated in and out of canon #and it does kinda make me emotional thinking about how #her dying wish was to always be part of the legend and to this day #20 years later #we still insist on including her in Robin fan works #stephanie brown #robin iv #robin stephanie brown #batman #the spoiler #batgirl iii #batfam #batfamily #listen man #war games bad #but also steph's last words always make me so emotional #war games #batman: war games #batman 633

[bamboozled-distress]

Alfred ready to fuck up nightwings kneecaps so that he can’t leave till hes healed properly is probably one of the only good things that came out from war games 😭 and this is probably the most in character thing that’s come from anyone in the entire event

#man with all the shit that nightwing was going through in the entire event im glad someone is taking care of him #jesus christ im so happy I finished reading war games it was a hot mess omg #I genuinely don’t think it’s capable for dc to write an event in Gotham that isn’t absolute trash #alfred pennyworth #nightwing #dick grayson #war games #batman #dc #the batfam!!!! #laz.exe #batman 633 #the batfamily #laz reads things

[an-android-child]

Failings come in three, a poem about bats and birds

Part 2

Part 1 | Part 0 | Part 3

Comics used: Red Robin #1, Robin #128, Robin #182, Batman #427, Batman #633, Batman: Incorporated #6, Batman: Incorporated #7

Poem written by me.

#web weaving #dc comics #dc batman #dc #batman #Web weaving divided in parts #original poem #Poem divided in parts #poems on tumblr #poems and poetry #The ten image limit is my enemy #tim drake #dick grayson #stephanie brown #jason todd #bruce wayne #damian wayne #alfred pennyworth

[sohotthateveryonedied]

As the knower of all things Batman Comics - any chance you’d be willing to give a rough timeline of Jason coming back to Gotham and what he does? I know about all these events - the fight at Titan’s Tower, him confronting Batman with Joker, him shooting Dick, taking over Crime Alley - but I don’t know what order they happen I ?? Are there important things to his return timeline that aren’t in that list? I can’t figure out where to find the relevant comics (or even which comics are the relevant ones). :(

(Alright so I'm gonna base these on publication date and hope there wasn't too much time-wonkiness making it so that some events were before or after certain other events in spite of the dates and all that)

1. Jason returns to Gotham — It's unclear exactly when this happens, but I want to say it's roughly 4-4.5 years after his death.

2. Jason confronts Bruce and slices Tim's throat before "revealing" it was actually Clayface the entire time (no it wasn't) — Hush was published from Oct 2002 - Sept 2003, so the time between that and the 2004 Under the Hood storyline I assume to be anywhere from six months to a year. Comics are confusing.

Batman #618

3. Stephanie Brown "dies" in War Games (Oct 2004 - Jan 2005).

Batman #633

4. The Red Hood appears in Gotham — There is no official source for this, but we can assume that Jason has made at least a few appearances at Red Hood pre-Batman #635 while planning his takeover of the city and showdown with Batman.

* I should also mention that Dick is still recovering from a leg wound when the Under the Hood storyline begins, as well as recovering from the traumatic event of Tarantula killing Blockbuster, which is a big part of the reason why Dick is in Gotham at this time and around to help Bruce when the Red Hood surfaces. That, and the fact that War Games just took place and they lost Stephanie. Jason picked a really stressful time to start his Gotham takeover lmao.

5. Jason kicks Bruce out of his own company and takes control of all his toys lmao (Dec 29, 2004).

Batman #635

6. Jason takes control of Gotham's gangs (Dec 29, 2004) — This is the first official appearance of the Red Hood that we see. This is the event that swiftly puts him in the spotlight as Gotham's newest and potentially most dangerous criminal. (This is also where all the "eight heads in a duffle bag" jokes come from.)

Batman #635

7. Jason reveals that he is Red Hood (June 22, 2005) — Bruce finds out the Red Hood is Jason and is given the evidence to prove it. We can assume that the other Bats (Dick, Barbara, Tim, etc) are informed shortly after this encounter, if only for their own safety than Bruce's generous decision to keep them in the loop for once.

Batman #641

8. Jason attacks Tim at Titans Tower (Nov 9, 2005) — Jason takes a brief break from fucking around in Gotham to go beat up his kid brother in ugly orange leggings. Then he returns to Gotham to mess with Bruce and Black Mask some more.

Teen Titans (2003) #29

9. Bludhaven gets nuked (supposedly killing Dick at first, but we all know he's fine). — This particular comic showing the event was published on Jan 26, 2005, eight days after it was first shown in Infinite Crisis #4. This information doesn't really matter that much, but it makes me sound smart.

Batman #649

10. The infamous Jason/Joker/Bruce showdown happens (Feb 22, 2006).

Batman #650

11. Jason disappears, then resurfaces after a year or so to cosplay as his big brother (April 12, 2006) — Jason lies low for a long while after that final confrontation with Bruce until the One Year Later event has passed, skipping us forward a year in time. Dick returns to Bludhaven to find Jason having lost his marbles, acting as a murderous version of Nightwing and being a general nuisance to everyone <3

Nightwing (1996) #119

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[zahri-melitor]

Going to politely not rant more on Junko’s post but the suggestion of the ask that Damian’s introduction wasn’t controversial is sending me up the wall, I’m laughing so hard.

Just putting this out there. In TWENTY THREE ISSUES of Batman (23! Not even two whole years) from #633-#655, the following events happened:

Stephanie dies (633)

Leslie admits to letting Steph die ‘to teach Bruce a lesson’ (644)

Jason returns in Under the Red Hood (635-642, 645-650)

Evil!Cass reveal (over in Robin 150, same month as 653 where Bruce says “I’d rather not discuss her”)

Tim accepts the second adoption offer (654)

Damian arrives (655)

I suspect a lot of people who WEREN’T in 90s-2000s comics fandom don’t know about the saying “Nobody stays dead except Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben”. It was a truism. When Marvel and DC essentially simultaneously resurrected Bucky and Jason it shook a lot of people to the core.

People talk about how the New 52 destroyed a lot of fans and led to a lot of people leaving. This period also knocked out a lot of Bat fans, ESPECIALLY if you liked the female characters.

DC, in under two years: killed Steph; took Barbara and Helena mostly out of Gotham by sending the Birds of Prey to Metropolis; destroyed the core of Leslie’s character by making the ultra pacifist kill (and sent her off to Africa); and ended Cass’s book and made her Evil (TM).

That’s essentially all of the recurring female cast of the previous decade or more outside of Selina and Renée, and Renée spent those two years GOING THROUGH IT over in Gotham Central and hadn’t been revealed to be the new Question yet. And Selina got relegated to a baby arc with Helena (who I love but uh yeah is also worth noting).

So, after taking out pretty much every female character you’d expect to see as a hero/supporter in a Bat book, editorial simultaneously resurrected Jason Todd (something fans considered to be hugely unlikely up to that point) and gave Bruce a biological son in Damian (literally the issue after Tim got adopted).

Plus Dick had just been saved from being offed in Infinite Crisis.

So yeah, there was some hate for the new characters, after all of that. The editorial priorities were NOT SUBTLE.

#z canon read throughs #dc meta

[trust-and-jump]

Barbara Gordon saves Batman

She saves Batman by saying — by ordering...

Save me.

War games, act three, part 8 of 8.

Batman (1940) #633

[yes, it's one of those times Batman intends to kill someone, but for some reason it's also the one people don't mention often]

[at this point, I think, Black Mask is just as immortal as Joker]

[also, the look on her face... she's adamant. and she doesn't leave Batman any other choice. This, right here, isn't just Oracle. She's Batgirl here, too.]

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[mijashdi]

[batman (1940) #633]

GOD ?

#mij reads comics #stephanie brown #bruce wayne #hospital tw #death tw

[incoherentbabblings]

In War Games Steph knew the gender of her baby but didn't she not want to know originally?

Yes that's correct! It's a wee tiny plot hole, that one of the last times her baby is ever mentioned is Steph confirming it was a girl, when she had first indicated to Tim that she did not want to know.

In her nightmare after the c-section she dreams it's a boy, but that's just her have a drug induced nightmare for lack of a better term, and the language aside from this one instance is particularly gender neutral, so I wonder if this slipped through the net.

Robin (1993) #65

But when she wakes and Tim tries to tell her a bit more about the baby, she shushes him.

Robin (1993) #65

So why - you may think - when she is speaking to Bruce as she lays dying, does Steph know she had a girl?

Batman (1940) #633

So. We never see Steph's baby. They're never discussed in depth after she gives birth aside from recaps or short references here and there (like in Batgirl where Steph references having a baby to Cass, but again it's in neutral terms).

Batgirl (2000) #38.

So how and when did Steph find out? We don't know. She could have cracked and asked Tim or her mum, she could have snooped as Robin and looked at files - her file perhaps (unlikely as she was locked out of many things as Robin due to Bruce's mistrust of her), or it could just be a plain mistake. Maybe writers are irrationally frightened of the use of the singular 'they' and needed to give the baby a gender. It's interesting to think about for sure, but the short answer is likely that it was a mistake in continuity. Of course we may headcanon until the cows come home to justify it!

One thing that I do think it's interesting that she says above 'I have a baby'. That phrasing is just a little off to me.

I had a baby is when you've given birth. You say that regardless of whether or not you still have the kid, five minutes and five decades after the fact; it's an action that you did. I had a baby.

I have a baby is more like... like the baby is yours and lives with you and you are its mother and caretaker. But as Steph immediately follows up with 'She's not mine anymore' it's just an interesting use of tense. She is dying and absolutely medicated up the wazoo, so she's not exactly at her most coherent here. She speaks as if she's still responsible for the child, only to immediately double back and admit it's not hers anymore. It's just quite a sad statement. Again, perhaps not deliberate, but I think there's something there.

#dc #batfam meta #stephanie brown #ask and i'll babble

[ao3feed-superbat]

Return

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/FPibZWD by Sabichii One night, Bruce returns. Kal-El is unable to let him go again. Words: 633, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Original Child(ren) of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Lord Superman (Justice Lords Universe)/Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Omega Bruce Wayne, Alpha Clark Kent, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Idiots in Love, Reconciliation, Reconciliation Sex, But not explicit, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Feelings, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating, Bruce Wayne Needs a Hug, Protective Clark Kent, Clark Kent Loves Bruce Wayne read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/FPibZWD

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[hermesserpent-stuff]

I posted 1,306 times in 2022

That's 633 more posts than 2021!

737 posts created (56%)

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I tagged 1,056 of my posts in 2022

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I am not best meme maker. But it's a fun way to illustrate my ideas!

(I'm calling it chilly batson au and everyone is probably ooc)

195 notes - Posted January 12, 2022

#4

“Would it make you happy?”

Adam pauses, lightning dancing around his fists.

“What?”

“Killing me. Would it make you happy?”

The child looks up at him, eyes wide and arms wrapped around his middle. Would it make him happy? Yes! .... Maybe... The kid speaks up again.

“I’m not a replacement. No one can be for you because you are your own person. Killing me wont change the past, it wont change your place in the world and it wont change the wizard. I’m not sure it would make you happy.”

- dumb scene in my head for billy and black adam’s first fight

edit: made a comic

202 notes - Posted March 19, 2022

#3

Au thought! (Before getting captain marvel powers)

Everyone has "code names" in the Rogue crew, aka their villain names. But they respect that Billy doesn't want to become a super villain. But Trickster doesn't want Billy left out, and wants to be able to talk about him in costume and to him through comms. So Billy thinks for a bit and then decides to go by Scarab. Reborn from his old life.

It becomes a known in the underground that if there's anything you want to know about ancient writing, Scarab probably can help make sure you're not about to steal something that will smite you for touching it. But no one outside of the central city family knows that it's Billy.

Flash has to deal with Batman grilling him over the identity of the expert that he knows lives in central. Barry says nothing 1) cause it's funny, 2) he has an agreement with his villains and he's not gonna break that for anyone. Not even for Batman.

229 notes - Posted February 7, 2022

#2

Sucks for the league that cold beat them to the punch. Barry's on the sidelines laughing cause he already knows Billy and his fam.

324 notes - Posted February 3, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Okay! Love the idea that when Billy becomes champion everyone who is intune with magic feels a fundamental shift in the universe due to the Rock stabilizing for the first time in centuries.

What in saying is Shining Knight feels it along with Zantana and Constantine.

346 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

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[britesparc]

Weekend Top Ten #633

Top Ten Fictional Cities

If there’s one thing I like in my fiction, it’s a good sense of place. You want to be immersed in an alternative world; so it’s nice to know where you actually are. Of course, tons of fiction is set in real places: whether that’s an historical drama like The Crown necessarily inhabiting the palaces Queen Elizabeth did actually occupy; or a film such as The Full Monty being specifically set in contemporary Sheffield; or even the bulk of the MCU taking place in what’s supposed to be a believable version of New York. Plenty of films and shows and books and everything else revel in their location; how many times have we heard “the city is a character”, usually when describing urban crime dramas (or, frankly, Batman films)? But it’s true; a great location can ground a story, or it can transport you. There can be a realness even to the most fantastical of fictional locales.

And I really do love a fictional locale. Whether it’s the unrecognisable cityscapes of the likes of Blade Runner or The Fifth Element – ostensibly set in real-world cities such as Los Angeles and New York many years hence (“many years” in Blade Runner’s case being, er, 2019) – or places that are made up entirely, it’s great to see the wildness, weirdness, and even the realism that these made-up metropoli deliver. Think about it: how many of your favourite fictions take place in not-real location? Of course you can look at total fantasies like Lord of the Rings, or sci-fi stories that exist on other planets; but whether it’s as crazy a place as Roger Rabbit’s Toontown, the sprawling cities of games like Cyberpunk 2077 or Crackdown, or even the fictionalised township of Derry, Maine in several Stephen King stories, across the gamut of genre, medium, and audience, we have places that aren’t real giving us stories that feel real.

Because, again, the best settings reinforce the fiction they envelop. I don’t want to pre-empt the list itself, but look at how Gotham and Metropolis reflect the heroes that live there. This can be both sublime and ridiculous: the way the fictionalised cities of Grand Theft Auto serve not only to reinforce the themes of the games they inhabit, but also work as subtle (and not so subtle) parodies of American life; but also the way you’d get a place like Duckburg in Duck Tales, or even Far, Far Away in the Shrek movies, that really don’t have much purpose other than giving fantastical cartoon characters a home and allowing for some wince-inducing puns when it comes to the names of shops and stuff.

Blimey, I’ve wanged on a bit this week.

Anyway, I love a made-up city, that’s what I’m saying. And that’s what this list is, if you hadn’t guessed. Now, as usual, I’ve given myself rules; one is that these are supposed to be cities. There’s one that I’m not certain of (I’ll come to it) – it might be a town, technically, but I’ve allowed it on the basis of its iconicness (is that a word?). Also, they have to be fictional; so the likes of Marvel’s New York or Blade Runner’s LA are out. As are, frankly, the in-all-but-name cities of GTA; I don’t really think Liberty City is any more fictional than the New York inhabited by the Avengers, it’s just got a made-up name to go along with its made up buildings and locations. This has also stretched to Neo-Tokyo from Akira, which is really just Tokyo with a hole in the middle. However, I am allowing Mega-City One.

I think that’s it. Let’s go on a city break!

Gotham and Metropolis (Batman and Superman comics, from 1938): yes, once again I cheat at the start. Two cities! But often they’re thought of as twin cities, so, y’know. Whatever. Anyway: they are always a yin and a yang, the light and the dark, reflections of their principal heroes. Metropolis, shining city on the hill, beacon of the future; Gotham, dark and brooding gothic vision, its windswept alleys awash with rain. They’ve been called New York in the day and New York in the night, and as representations of the beauty, optimism, darkness, and danger of cities – of American cities; of America – they’re perfect. So perfect they’re almost certainly the first fictional cities you thought of too. So perfect they can be high-tech futurescapes, twisted neon-drenched, fume-belching furnaces, or just broadly realistic interpretations of real places (in Donner’s Superman, Metropolis is literally New York, Statue of Liberty and all). No fake place is as redolent. They are the ur-cities. And, of course, they have the best superheroes.

Coruscant (Star Wars stories, officially from 1997): the retro-futuristic art deco stylings of its skyline is one thing – the hovering platforms in the clouds, the vast curving domes of the buildings – but the fact that the entire planet is one big city is its big talking point. Taking the concept of sprawling metropolis (small “m”) to its most ridiculous degree, it’s a crazy sci-fi concept in a film series built on crazy sci-fi concepts.

Autobot City (The Transformers: The Movie, 1986): the notion of the Autobots – long trapped in their crashed spaceship – building a permanent city on Earth was cool enough. But the fact that it can transform into a bristling battle-station is even better. And its design is cool; a sci-fi version of a medieval fortress, moat and all. Gets extra points because, depending on who you believe, it may turn into an actual Transformer, or just have one sleeping beneath it. Fun fact: in the original script it was even referred to as “Fortress Maximus”!

Springfield (The Simpsons, from 1987): it’s a hell of a town; the schoolyard’s up and the shopping mall’s down. This is the minor controversy, because I don’t know if Springfield is a city or a town; but to hell with it, chances are if you didn’t think of Gotham or Metropolis, you thought of this place. Over thirty-odd years of the series, Springfield has developed into a believable, if exaggerated, township; we know some of these locations like the back of our hand. Moe’s, the Power Plant, the burning tyre yard, Springfield Elementary, yada yada yada. It’s a perfectly realised unreal place.

Minas Tirith, the White City of Gondor (The Lord of the Rings, 1954): technically, I believe that “Gondor” is the realm and the huge walled city. Its seven walled levels climb upwards, providing multiple rings of defence, and looking somewhat like a giant swirl on top of a colossal cupcake. The promontory rock jutting out the front, and the beautiful citadel on its topmost level, make for an incredibly striking and unique design, as well as offering functionality. It’s an amazing, fantastical, incredible location.

Mega-City One (Judge Dredd, 1977): whilst this city does contain New York, it also stretches across pretty much the entire eastern seaboard of the US, so it’s, y’know, big. Possibly the poster child for sprawling post-apocalyptic metropolis, it’s a vast, corrupt, horrible place overseen by a fascist police force. Pick your depressing sci-fi trope, it’s here. Interesting to ponder what it says about the British view of America, really.

Ankh-Morpork (Discworld stories, from 1983): possibly lower down the list than some would have it, because (whispers) I’ve not read much Discworld. But as a place, it’s incredibly well-realised, a brilliant multifaceted fantasy location that feels incredibly real and dynamic and lived-in, and (typical for Pratchett) reflects our own world so perfectly.

Rapture (BioShock, 2007): it’s part-city, part underwater laboratory, yeah? But the notion of a man-made utopia going to pot is a common sci-fi go-to. Here, the distinct areas of the city, and how they reflect the various obsessions and perversions of the pseudo-fascist nutters who ran the place, are beautiful to behold and terrifying to ponder. Plus, as an emergent and interactive bit of design, the location is tremendous to wander around, the retro art design great to behold, the distressed and decaying façade of gaudy old-timey whimsey disturbing but also quaintly amusing.

Zootopia (Zootopia, 2016): cities in talking-animal movies usually just look like real cities but there’ll be dreadful puns, like a burger place called “McDognald’s” or something. Zootopia tries to imagine how all these different animals would co-exist, with fascinating results, including different temperate zones, vast tubes connecting different areas, and buildings of varying sizes that result in our relatively-diminutive leads towering kaiju-like over the proceedings.

San Angeles (Demolition Man, 1993): I was worried this was a bit of a cheat too, as it’s an amalgam of two real cities, but this new metropolis emerged from the ashes of a devastating earthquake so – like Mega-City One – it counts. And for once we have more of a culture than a design that stands out; true, the three seashells and sexy curvy cars are a highlight, but it’s the way this city imposes its morality, the way the future erased 20th century vices, and the way – frankly – everyone speaks that sets this out as a fascinating little town of tomorrow. Be well, San Angeles. Be well.

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[ao3feed-sladedick]

La magie de Poison Ivy

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/RCe3jZb by Lady_Meg_666 Slade remarque que Dick est touché par le pollen de Poison Ivy. Il l’amène dans une ruelle pour s’occuper de lui. Words: 633, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Français Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Slade Wilson, Dick Grayson Relationships: Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson Additional Tags: Smut, Dubious Consent, Sex Pollen, Hand Jobs read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/RCe3jZb

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[an-android-child]

Failings come in three, a poem about tragedy

Part 3

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 0

Comics used: Batman #633, Batman: Incorporated #7, Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #100

Poem written by me.

#web weaving #dc comics #dc batman #dc #batman #Web weaving divided in parts #Poem divided in parts #poems on tumblr #poems and poetry #original poem #stephanie brown #bruce wayne #damian wayne #jason todd #The ten image limit is my enemy #I'm so tired

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

if you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around / do you ever really crash or even make a sound

by Kyra_Maximoff tim is caught on the wrong side of someone. it really isn't his fault.   ~   Dumpsters overflow with trash on the other side of the alley, and as he watches, a rat darts from one shadow to another, drawn closer by the smell of blood. He hisses at it, the sound bubbling up in his throat until he’s coughing with the sticky warmth of the stuff. His shoulders shake with the pain of it, and, movements only aggravating his injuries, he slowly slides to the ground. The rat scuttles back into the shadows, but doesn’t move any further. He’s going to die. He’s going to die and there’s no one to witness it but the rat. Words: 633, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: Gen Characters: Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne (Mentioned) Relationships: Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt, there will be comfort i promise, Tim Drake-centric, Tim Drake Needs a Hug, Hurt Tim Drake, Tim Drake Whump, ok so i joined this fandom last night but i will fucking die for these characters, No Beta We Die Like Fucking Everyone?!?! via https://ift.tt/G7TZDMC

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[zahri-melitor]

I mean I AM impressed with my procrastination technique on Batman RIP, in that I’ve now read a whole lot of “inspiration” material for it and I’m at a stage where it’s more recent material and so the storylines make coherent sense, rather than having a twist in the third last panel to explain the situation.

Latest:

Batman: Dark Knight, Dark City - this is Batman 452-454, plus ‘Tec 633.

Finally something I can actually 100% say “yeah that wasn’t a waste of my effort reading”.

The Batman story is about Riddler performing the Barbathos/Barbatos ritual. OH LOOK SOMETHING WHERE I KNOW WHY IT WILL BE RELEVANT. Also it was written in 1990 so it’s just so so so much more readable? Containing a coherent plot?

The ‘Tec is ye olde Identity Crisis, aka yet another time Bruce hallucinates he’s not Batman and can’t find the cave. Read this one before. Same basic plot happens over in Batman 112 as well. I am getting the signal here, Morrison.

Now onto Batman Gothic (LOTDK 6-10): some Bruce boarding school stuff (it was traumatic). Mobsters being so scared they make a deal to keep things straight while Batman finds the killer. Batman in a trap with a Rube Goldberg machine trying to kill him??? Mr Whisper here is apparently proto Dr Hurt.

Ok. My conclusions after going through all of this material: DON'T. If you're a normal person. If you really feel the need to get some additional background information, go through Batman 112, 113, 156, and 452-454. 'Tec 633 will feel like a rerun but at least it's somewhat modern.

Or be sensible, unlike me, and just assume you can pick up the context from the page, because I went hunting and yeah, none of these villains have appeared before, and so now I want to have WORDS with Grant Morrison over calling a villain dressed as Ned Kelly (yawn) 'Swagman'. Way to lazily mash separate cultural concepts together.

Mate, you didn't even have the excuse that someone drew it in the 1950s to get you over that one. And all the others look equally bad and offbase stereotypes.

#z canon read throughs #I cannot reiterate how exhausting trying to do this was #can't believe Morrison decided to pull the lazy stereotype brigade out of the past and then give them equally lazy stereotype villains #unfortunately I do actually enjoy Beryl's characterisation #but I'm pretty ok with never seeing any of the others again #Batman RIP

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The fact that Jonathan Crane can transform into a huge beast still astounds me to this day. Scarecrow is a cryptid. This is canon.

Batman #633 || Scanned at 300dpi

#Jonathan Crane #Scarecrow #The Scarecrow #Scarebeast #My Scans #Batman 633