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If I see one more fic of the batkids berating Bruce for prioritizing “the mission” as if said mission was not trying to protect life, as if said mission isn’t literally the same shit the batkids do, all because “Bruce is an emotionless asshole”. Just say you’ve never picked up a comic and call it a day.
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(Yes, Dick was in full clown makeup and outfit when Tim found him in A Lonely Place of Dying.)
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I realized because I keep telling people to read The Spectre (2001) I should maybe provide a reading order in case you want to read it with context for Hal's arc. You definitely do not have to read all these comics to read The Spectre! as with all comics you should pick what sounds good to you. but they do provide context for where he's coming from and I think his arc as a whole is really satisfying.
League of Comics Geek list
Bold is recommended, italics is bonus.
Origins:
Emerald Dawn #1-6 - Hal's post-crisis origins. He gets the ring, he crashes a plane, he goes to jail (not in that order.)
Hal Jordan as Parallax:
Green Lantern 1990 #48-50 - Heel turn! After the destruction of his hometown Coast City, Hal tries to use his power to undo it and destroys the planet Oa, his bosses the Guardians, and most of the Green Lantern Corps.
Zero Hour #0 - Hal tries to destroy all of time to set things right. This is a big crossover event spanning multiple universes - do not worry about who everyone is.
Green Lantern 1990 #0, 62-64 - Following the events of Zero Hour, Hal fights his successor Kyle in an attempt to get his ring back.
Parallax: Emerald Night, Final Night #4 - Hal sacrifices himself to destroy a creature eating the sun. If you pick one of these to read pick Emerald Night, which has the meaty character stuff.
Green Lantern: Legacy: Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan - This doesn't add much to a Spectre read but it follows off of the Parallax arc so if you're already at it you might as well pick up this side story where Tom Kalmaku, Hal's mechanic and close friend, grapples with Hal's betrayal. I just think it's really nice to see Tom get to be a fully realized character with his own complex emotions about Hal and not just a sidekick.
Hal Jordan as the Spectre:
Day of Judgement 2-4 - You reeeally don't need to read Day of Judgment and I did not enjoy most of it but I'm including it for completionism's sake. All you need to know is that Hal's soul is summoned from purgatory to inhabit the Spectre, the embodiment of divine wrath, after its previous host Jim Corrigan leaves.
**Legends of the DC Universe #33-36 - Hal's early days as the Spectre dealing with the fallout of Parallax. If you skip everything else on this list I'd still recommend these four to get you up to speed.
**The Spectre 2001 #1-27 - 1-14 are Hal settling into what being the Spectre means for him, 15-27 deal more with his niece Helen and space adventures. Spectre 2001 has never been collected in trades and is not on DC Infinite so you're going to have to go with scans for this one but the scans do collect the letters pages which are a fun read. I miss letters pages.
Arcs and stand-alones if you just want to dip your toes in:
#2-4 - Redeeming the Demon - Hal wrestles with what it means to be the Spectre. Also, Superman and Batman are here, and so is an all-powerful woman from outside of time.
#5 - The Two Faces of Evil - If you like Two-Face this is a comic for you. I don't know where I come down on this as a story about mental illness but it's interesting!
#6-9 - The Redeemer/Gates of Heaven, Doors of Hell - these are the most explicitly religious of the bunch so ymmv BUT they're the first appearance of premium weirdo Stigmonus and also Helen's parents die in these so they're pretty important for her.
#10 - Joker's Last Laugh tie-in - even if you hate the Joker, this is stunningly drawn and is in fact a really good Parallax issue.
#11 - The Mission - good encapsulation of where Hal's ended up as the Spectre. Certainly the most sympathetic portrayal of terrorism you're going to see in a Big Two comic that came out in January 2002.
#14 - The Silver Room - just a really beautiful vampire story.
#15-17 - Mystery in Space! First appearance of Materna Minxx, Helen's cosmic nanny.
#20 - My Perfect Life - Hal helps a man with a seemingly untouchable existence.
#21-23 - Stigmonus and Son - Hal Jordan gets his own perfect life back. Mostly including this because a) I like it as a story arc when it's what Parallax was trying to accomplish the whole time and b) One Of Hal's Spectre Aspects Is A Woman. Yay :)
#24 - They Say It's Your Birthday - Helen birthday issue! Perfect incredibly sweet issue imo.
#27 - The Beginning of the Beginning - Wraps up Hal's arc with Helen beautifully.
TIM DRAKE READING ORDER
For those who, like me, when they like a character they need to read every single comic the character appears in, I have compiled a list of all of Tim Drake’s appearances from his debut up to the 2011 Flashpoint reboot (not including New 52 continuity).
I’m living a fever dream lol. Reading the justice league/ fifa crossover which if fun, because Mongul comes with out of nowhere and tells Superman he has been learning all about football (I’m not calling it soccer) and wants to play a match. Him and his aliens against the JL and “the best footballers the planet can offer” and points to the USA team.
My dude… you’ve not learned shit lol. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE USA team, LOL?!? At least they could’ve pull a Shakira and make a mix and match with the top footballers from the world.
At least they got Batman there and Damian who’s the biggest football fan apparently lol
Illustrated another fic - my rule is if it punches me in the heart I draw something from it! 🥲
I Loved You Before You Knew Me by @lostinreeverie
I’m sick and tired of people writing sexual abuse with Batman and not tagging, or worse, blaming the victim -Bruce, the victim it’s always Bruce- and taking it as a joke.
I just read a batlantern fic where there’s a sex tape leak and I’m so disgusted. Literally the premise it’s some staff at an hotel filmed, without Bruce and Hal knowing, a sex tape and then leaked it. It went viral. This is sexual violence. There’s no other way around it. The fic was from mid 2010’s but I and the world sure knew by that time this was sexual violence.
And the whole fic just treats Bruce without a modicum of sympathy, Alfred even berates him for not being a “gentleman” and treating Hal right by bringing him to the manor instead of renting a room. And it would be bad enough as it was if not by the end of the fic where the leak leads to people starting to figure out Hal is green lantern, and the idea that Hal comes up with is Bruce having sex with someone who looks like anyone from the JL and leaking a new tape so they all think Bruce has a fetish. Which even Bruce points out would made it seem like he finances the JL and Batman because of a sexual fetish.
Hal knows everyone will laugh and mock Bruce’s civilian identity, hell even his identity as Batman given that the fic shows how their teammates and Bruce’s SONS have seen the tape, but Hal insist on his plan.
And the worst part is that Bruce ends up filming and leaking a new sex tape with a SW. This is plain sexual abuse. There’s no way around it. The fic is like 5k and it’s describing SA and SV that Buce suffers without even considering Bruce as a victim. Now even touching on the off remark that apparently in this canon Bruce was perceived as a straight man, so he was also forcibly outed VIA SEX TAPE LEAK.
Bruce has already receive mocking from Jason - like also wtf- and the public, berating from Alfred, and his love interest (because the end game of this fic is indeed batlantern) is freaking out because of the possibility of loosing his privacy. The start of Bruce’s POV is him feeling guilty and apologizing to Hal for a perceived “lack of thinking” and not being able to anticipate how his privacy could’ve been violated by renting a room in a hotel. AND THIS WHOLE FIC TREATS BRUCE AS IF BEING DESERVING OF THIS MOCKERY AND CRUELTY AND HAL THE ONLY VICTIM WHO NEEDS HELP AND SUPPORT.
I was so pissed, I kept reading out of the chance of everyone backing off with the stupid plan of destroying Bruce civilian reputation by SA but no, they all go along with the plan (even Wonder Woman who’s the one the sexual worker looks like), Hal only minimally bothered by it and only because he’s jealous of the SW Bruce is going to sleep with. And then by the end they get together, just like that. As if Bruce had not been repeatedly the victim of sexual abuse.
The indignity which Bruce is treated in this fic made me so mad. And then worse, the comments were all praising the author for the incredible fic and how it treated crack seriously and I’m like… are people dumb? How is treating a sexual abuse victim here by revictimizing him and making him a joke a good take??
Idk I’m just so pissed I needed to rant. But like I’m begging people who write fics. If you want to write fics like these go ahead. Just fucking tag them right so I don’t have to read this shit.
people will genuinely make me seem like I'm overexaggerating when I say that sanist writing is deeply embedded in Batman stories, but it's unfortunately true: the text goes above and beyond to demonize Bruce for things that, when you break them down, are symptoms of his ptsd (or, undiagnosed but heavily implied conditions like OCD, Autism) reacting to traumatic events. He is given absolutely no space to grieve or cope with these reactions nor is he given agency over his own trauma and is constantly forced to repress his emotions for the benefit of others. Bruce Wayne: Murderer? / Fugitive focuses on making you feel bad for his extended family, especially Dick, who goes about confronting a man experiencing psychosis the completely wrong way By Attacking Him and Forcing Him To Become Violent, when Bruce is the one suffering from psychosis after his girlfriend is killed in his own house and he's framed for her murder. If you know Anything about Bruce Wayne and his paranoia, this is like one of the worst things you could ever conjure up for him to deal with. And he's barely given support during it. The fallout of Alfred's death is even nastier because the entirety of Alfred Pennyworth R.I.P focuses on how upset everyone else is and how Bruce needs to 'man up' and 'be the batman' the family needs him to be, he essentially gets blamed for Alfred's death and no one even allows for him to grieve.
Even before this, the narrative continues to paint him as 'doomed from the start,' and this line of thinking is unironically something Leslie and Alfred use to escape responsibility for his upbringing. For a character whose entire DNA revolves around trauma, Batman stories do a generally terrible job of dealing with the subject properly, and the way the fandom interprets those stories only makes my eyes roll. And don't make me even begin to talk about Zur and the 'evil alter' trope. Bruce, to this day, is blamed for things that were completely out of his control after being driven to such a low point that the only way he was able to cope was by allowing an entirely different persona to take over and the entire thing is genuinely so misshandled, I Cannot Keep Having These Conversations.
Appreciative post for my childhood crush
Bruce Wayne from the 1997 The New Batman Adventures. You'll be my favorite design forever. I mourn you every day.
DC Super Hero Girls has given me many things. But by far my favorite thing is they have the best incarnation of Bruce Wayne. And I say that not as like oh this is 10000% who Batman is.
No. I mean they have the best version of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Better than even the movies have gotten for one sole reason;
I want you to take one look at this bougie himbo, one fucking look,
And tell me who in their right mind would believe this man is the goddamned Batman.
He is too pretty. Too well put together. Too big a himbo. Too covered in fucking camera crews and groupies to ever pull it off. No one would ever even fucking consider this gem of a man could do it!
But he does and it works so fucking well.
And, oh my God, it's my new favorite thing.
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@blackkatmagic
This is exactly who Brucie Wayne should be!
THIS is the kind of man who BREAKS BRAINS when he reveals his identity to them. If Oliver Queen doesn’t sit blank faced staring at nothing, mumbling nonsensically under his breath for 10-30 minutes upon The Reveal, it’s just not correct okay?
Aww. This is in no way, shape or form adequate to make up for all the shit you've pulled Bruce.
And yet I'm such a sucker for these types of moments.
I’m just catching up on some comics and whoever said Bruce was an asshole to Hal upon meeting (new 52 continuity): you’re a big liar who lies lies
And before someone tells me they had one (1) panel interaction before this one, Batman was literally warning GL to turn down the lights because otherwise the police would shoot them
In summary: these bitches are friends who bicker, they don’t hate each other. And Bruce is just direct as one would be if they’re literally under lethal fire
Dc Mermaid AU
Chapter list: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / will be continued...
i don’t think all of them will actually show up in the comic, but i wanted to draw them together.)
i'll work on this but here some infos...
Different sea creatures they’re based / inspired on: Dick — flying fish Jason — betta fish (crowntail) Bruce — a mix of orca and shark Alfred — a blend of leopard seal and orca Tim — red velvet fairy wrasse Stephanie — Helfrichi firefish Cass — black ghost knifefish Duke — yellow pilotfish Babs — a shell-less sea snail (Cliona limacina) Talia al Ghul — tiger shark Damian —
Wally — Paine's flasher wrasse Donna — Spotted eagle ray Roy — redlionfish
LORE:
Bracelets around their tails: work kind of like surnames, showing which family or pod you belong to. Most of them are enchanted to shimmer or glow underwater, but only to others wearing a matching bracelet from the same pod. This helps family members find each other more easily, which is why it’s super rare to see merfolk without one, especially kids.
Idk if you take requests, but if you do, can you draw a fat plush of Kon El? :p
Yes I do take request! :P so I hope u like little fat Kon el
i think batman: dreamland has the funniest batman poses ever so i've compiled them all here, you're all very welcome
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PROMPT:
Clark and Bruce have been together for a while now, and after a night of patrolling Gotham, Clark stays over at Bruce's place for the first time.
Bruce sleeps like a log for almost 18 hours.
That's it. That's the prompt.
Also, Alfred and the boys grew a little paranoid when they didn't see Bruce come down for breakfast or lunch, or go to work, or make a video call. However, no one dared enter the bedroom, knowing that Clark was also there.
None of them is that brave yet.
Okay, okay, they had to restrain Damian.
