#this fully ignores rhato and rebirth

[lananiscorner]

How do you feel about the upcoming Red Hood and the Outlaws issues like 25, 26, and 27. Personally im pissed off because Bruce now wants to throw Jaybird in jail and then kicked him out of Gotham. Like come on Bruce, wtf!!

Thanks for your ask, Anon.

A small heads-up here: I haven’t read RHatO Vol 2/Rebirth/2016 and I don’t plan to, except for research purposes, so I don’t really care about Artemis or Bizarro or the breakup of the Outlaws as a team. I am vaguely aware of things that have happened in the books through panels I‘ve seen on tumblr and that’s about it.

That said, Jason and Bruce at each others’ throats is a narrative we have seen several times before and it was always a disaster, in which Bruce’s jerkish actions towards Jason were flat out ignored as if they had never happened, so unless they are using this new confrontation to address the trip back to Ethiopia to bring back Damian or the batarang from UTH, I really don’t see how there’s anything new to gain from rehashing this.

The solicits also read like they are going to push Jason more into the two-dimensional “almost villain” territory again, like he was in most of his post resurrection, post Crisis stuff and I am SO not here for this.

Additionally, the entire thing that led to this, aka Willis Todd’s “redemption narrative” was complete and utter bullshit to begin with and frankly kind of insulting to anyone who has ever suffered from abuse by their parents. Like, if my dad hit my mom, called me one of the two worst mistakes of his life, and threatened to shoot me, I wouldn’t and shouldn’t care what kind of bullshit reason he had for it. It’s still abuse. Horrible, terrifying abuse, and it left Jason with severe trauma. It makes zero sense for Jason to suddenly care about him.

Also, the fucking bait-and-switch about Jason having killed Cobblepot is another thing that’s been done 500 times and just stop it already DC; because of course he’s not dead. This is comic books. Nobody’s dead until you’ve put the body through an autopsy and sometimes not even then.

TLDR: I fully expect them to take Jason in the least interesting, most done-before, two-dimensional direction they possibly can and I have zero interest in reading it. There’s a teeny, tiny part of me that hopes I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but DC burned my goodwill regarding their creative choices a long time ago.

#asks #Anon #Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 2 25 #Jason Todd #I expect it to be a trash fire #there's a one in a million chance I'll be pleasantly surprised #but DC's track record is not promising

[lananiscorner]

Did you read the arkham comics, including the arkham genesis series? I was wondering how much? I'm guessing you've played all the games? Also have you read any of the rhato? Oh and I see that you tend to write Tim as older in your arkham stories does it reference that he's older in the arkham verse?

Thanks for your questions, Anon!

I have played all four games (BAA, BAC, BAO, and BAK, plus all of their respective DLCs). I did read all the Arkham Knight companion comics (not the ones for the other games though) and found them to mess up the continuity, so I mostly ignore them in my writing. I read Arkham Genesis, too, and while I found some of it to be very good, some things just didn’t make any sense to me in the context of the games, so I mostly ignore them as well.

As for RHatO... I read a few select issues of the New 52 RHatO (1-10, 17 and 18), but mostly out of morbid curiosity. I eventually stopped, partly because the characters were all over the place, and partly because I want to keep the universes separate to the best of my abilities, i. e. I don’t want comic!Jason’s characterization to spill over into Arkham!Jason’s characterization. For the same reason, I haven’t read any of the Rebirth RHatO issues. Also, and I know that I’m inviting people to pick up pitchforks and stones now, I don’t really care about Artemis and Bizarro. Sorry.

As for Tim’s age... the games never really give us any concrete information on how old he is. The only indicators we get are:

Both of his bios describe him as a student (no word whether that means high school or college).

Catwoman describes him as a “fully grown wonder”, rather than a boy wonder, compared to Dick and Jason.

He is at least old enough to legally marry Barb three months after BAK.

In the BAK comics, he started teaching other people. This is one of the few instances where I’m taking clues from the comics as to how old the characters are.

He’s been Robin since before Barb got shot (at least six months before BAA) and he was the same height/weight then (stats are slightly inconsistent between BAC and BAK, but since BAK is the one where ALL of the kids appear, I take that game as my bible).

He was in the audience the night Dick’s parents died, aka ten years before BAK. Now, I know the comics like to make him ever younger for this event, but let’s be real: how clearly can any of us recall stuff that happened before we were at least eight or nine years old?

So, at the very least, Tim is 18 or 19 by the time of BAK, probably a bit older than that (see point #5).

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