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joseph wilson / jericho reading list!

jericho is one of my favorite underappreaciated characters of all time and you don't see too many reading lists for him so I MADE MY OWN.

this is his full list of [what i deem to be important] appearances from the 80s until rebirth!!

If you've never read anything with Joey i do recommend starting with rebirth or his pre-crisis incarnation, NOT with new 52 because we pretend that doesn't exist.

#joseph wilson #jericho #dc #reading list

punkeropercyjackson

It's finally here!!!

Graphic design is my passion LMFAO but as i said i would do a while back,i've created a masterpost of all the Jason Todd content that's worth your time!This is rather long but he's existed since 1983 so!!

Base edit is my little sister @mayameanderings and tagging @coffeemilkcatz and @nanaonmars since they said yes when i asked if they wanted me to!Let's dive in then!

#reading list #dc #jason todd #red hood

dorothylarouge

funfey

You are not staying in the tags

princesspineberry

This is by the way an actual plotline in one of the comics (Spider Girl #11, 1999)- Jameson sees the titular spider girl and assumes that spider-man has transitioned specifically to torment him.

#this is hilarious #j jonah jameson #marvel #bruh them comics

blorb-el

bored clark pacing in a little tiny superspeed circle…

action 471, “the long weekend,” 1977, script bill kunkel, pencils john calnan, inks tex blaisdell, colors anthony tollin

#I'm sure Bruce can listen to Clark talk for little bit 😌#clark kent #dc #bruh them comics

jazzgard

damn.

foffythesheep

did stan have beef? or maybe he just loved a good punchline

tildeathiwillwrite

If the lettering is by S. Rosen then he wrote that like he used his hands and pen to write that he was 100% on board especially with that last bit

#bruh them comics

warrior-of-storms

I think this panel from Batgirl Special (1988) is the only time Dick, Jaybin, and Barbara's Batgirl were all in the same place before Death in the Family, & it might also be the only time Jason & Barbara were in the same place before DitF. And she's not even fighting crime with them, she's just being a batblob up on the roof. However, this does mean that Dick & Jason did canonically hang out more than just that one time in NTT & Batman #416, which I like <3

#dc #jason todd #dick grayson #barbara gordon #robin jason todd #nightwing #batgirl Barbara gordon #bruh them comics

warrior-of-storms

I can never stop thinking about The Neighborhood (Nightwing (1996) #10). It lives rent-free in my mind. Like, here's a list of things that appear/happen in Dick's nightmare:

He's married to Donna

They have two kids

Donna is cheating on him with Roy

Dick works an office job

Dick's boss is the Joker

Bruce works at the same company as him but much higher up

Bruce & Selina are married

They also live next door to Dick & Donna

Poison Ivy and the Penguin are married and also live nearby

Jason is a skeleton and the paperboy and he goes by JT

Jean-Paul Valley takes Bruce's place above Dick when Bruce gets promoted

Tim also works there and gets mad at Dick for screwing up the budget

Bruce throws Dick's son out a window & the kid falls to his death

Like... Dick, buddy, there's a lot to unpack there. have you considered talking to someone about any of that. I think you probably should but I know you're not going to.

thegremlininyourcloset

so what im hearing is Dick's afraid of

Amatonormativity

Parenthood

Infidelity

Office Jobs

The Joker? Capitalism?

Bruce being the boss of him

Bruce committing

Bruce living too close to him.

Heterosexual Poison Ivy

I'm not even gonna try to unpack that

Being replaced by Jean Paul-Valley

Messing up budgets? Messing up period?

Bruce? Falling? Child death? All three?

kelaeri

The Many Languages of Dick Grayson

Apparently, according to Nightwing #54, he can speak 12, so I went on a little quest to see just how many I could identify.

Starting off with The Essential Batman Encyclopedia, the entry for Dick Grayson lists him as being trained in French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese with having some proficiency in an unknown Romani dialect. Given there are multiple examples of him speaking these languages throughout the comics, I am inclined to trust this claim. To start, we've got several examples of French (Gotham Knights #14, Detective Comics Annual #12, Nightwing #73, Grayson #10-- also featuring Spanish)

In Grayson #1 he speaks Russian only briefly, but in Detective Comics #36 he speaks it throughout.

As far as the Chinese languages go, while I believe Dick can speak Mandarin and/or Cantonese fairly well (Batman/Superman World's Finest #3), his Hanzi recognition and literacy could use some work.

Similarly, when the Titans head off to Japan in Titans Annual #1, we have Nightwing speaking Japanese in battle; however, when it comes to the prospective job of being a manga translator in Nightwing #125, he claims he doesn't know Japanese, which leads me to believe he is only proficient in speaking Japanese/Chinese and struggles with the writing systems.

So what about the languages not covered in the encyclopedia? To start, we have another romance language: Italian (Nightwing #72).

Followed by some alleged German (Nightwing #51, JLA #44)

And conversations in Farsi (Robin #175)

While I've seen some Tumblr and Reddit posts claim he knows Kikuyu, The Power Company: Manhunter #1 only says he "brushed up" on his Kikuyu before going to Kenya, so it is unknown how much of the language he actually speaks, but to me it doesn't seem likely to be a lot.

He also, to some unknown degree, speaks Tamaranean-- at least enough to hack into an alien computer (Action Comics #842).

As far as unspoken languages go, Dick is fluent in ASL, which is proven numerous times when he communicates with Jericho (New Teen Titans 1984).

And lastly, the two languages that remain rather uncertain are Romani and Cant-- largely due to the nature of the languages themselves and their representation in comics. "Romani," for instance, has several different dialects, and when Devin Grayson introduced it for Dick (Gotham Knights #20-21, Nightwing #91), she never specified which, and based on the lines she wrote, her research into the language was questionable at best. Writers since have recognized Dick's Romani heritage, but have not otherwise suggested he retained much of the language to be considered fluent.

Cant is an even wider term than Romani and can be seen as more of jargon for a particular language than a language itself, sometimes even being called a "pseudo-language." The colloquial term for American circus cant is Carny, or "Carny speak" as Boston Brand puts it in Batman: The Brave and the Bold #14 when he and Nightwing encounter a kid who speaks it.

So... this leaves us with 11 languages Dick has notable proficiency in: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, and ASL. And ~3 languages he has unknown proficiency in: Tamaranean, Kikuyu, Romani, and Carny/Cant (if you want to count it).

Maybe memory-loss Dick was including either Tamaranean or Kikuyu in that count from Nightwing #54, or maybe he knows some other language we haven't seen yet. Given how close the family is to the Al Ghuls, I personally think it would be cool if one of them was Arabic.

But anyway, hope you enjoyed this post! A lot I've seen covering this topic are very surface-level and label some of his more iffy languages as "fluent," so I hope this cleared things up. I've read tons of Nightwing, and I swear there are more examples, but sifting through the 1,000+ comics I've read of him is a lot haha. If y'all know of some others, let me know!

#dc #dick grayson #comic references

arcade-confetti

Read every Jason Todd 80s comic ever. Read them all read all of them read them all read

arcade-confetti

Read all of thm

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And then read more ans everything

#reading list #jason todd #robin #dc

deadclawshc

he’s so cutie

speach-reads-comics

Spider-Boy (2023) #8

#peter parker #spider-man #toy soldier #marvel #bruh them comics #ya know...i probably wouldnt be so trusting here because SO MANY SPIDEY VILLAINS WEAR LAB COATS

ultimate-marysue

You think Cass is autistic because the only thing you know about her is that "she doesn't speak", I think Cass is autistic because she has a very intense sense of justice, is incredibly fixated on crime fighting, learned how to sound normal from imitating tv characters, other characters infantilize her when she's very clearly an adult that just struggles with some things, and yes, because when she's upset she stops talking.

We are not the same, but we could be... May I present you with a little comic called "Batgirl 2000"?

#dc #cassandra cain #reading list

batman-polls

How many Batman* comics have you read? (by issue)

I haven't read any comics (but I'm a fan)

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*Including comics featuring Batman franchise characters but not Batman, such as Catwoman or Nightwing.

#poll #dc #I honestly dont even know....#a lot??

mae-kent

my updated intro to mae kent zine is finally done!! thank you so much to @deven895 and @pup-pee for helping with the art— so glad to finally have this done!!

#mae kent #reading list #dc

sheegons

Damian's love language and i have proof

alright let's start off simple:

Damian + colin

Damian giving colin a motorcycle after colin helped Damian in a childrens fighting tournament with zsasz

Damian trying to help colin find his mother on mother's day, eventually settling for giving Colin the flowers he was planning to give to colins mother

Damian + bruce

Damian giving bruce Marthas pearls that he dug out of the sewers, the ones Damian searched for in said sewers for hours

damian travelling to multiple places in the world, finding old memorabilia of martha and thomas wayne to give bruce in a scavenger hunt

Damian + Jon

Damian giving jon an extremely rare console that even clark couldn't find so him n jon can play games together

Damian + Dick

Damian finding an old piece of memorabilia from one of the first villains dick fought, just cause he told him the story of when they fought

there's also too bits with maps that i can't include due to image limit

1. Damian giving maps a batarang after finding out she was a batman fan

2. Damian giving maps a mystery hunt as Robin, letting her find a first edition handbook of serpents and spells (DC version of D&D) and calling maps (who, again, is a known batman fan) his friend in his robin identity to make her happy

#dc #bruh them comics #damian wayne

batbunker

Dick Grayson, everybody. (Nightwing 1996 #152)

#that mental image is amazing #next lazarus dip someone takes we get a wide shot of them breaching the surface like screaming and a rubber ducky bobs in the water #dc #bruh them comics #dick grayson #nightwing

loopyarts

Batman #350 Nightmare In Crimson Bronze Age pre crisis released in August 10th 1982 writers Gerry Conway and Paul Levitz artists Gene Colan and Tony de Zuniga letterer Ben Oda Colourist Adrienne Roy editor Dick Giordano.

Aw this panel is so sweet, I love it when Bruce refers to Dick as his son. Also with context this panel is quite grim and Bruce has every right to be concerned by how Dick is acting.

Note: Yes, I am aware that the word son is also a more old fashioned American English slang a term used usually by older men or usually by older men with authority/wisdom/seniority. Which is either used to refer to a young boy or man who is a stranger.

Or used as a casual gesture of endearment to the young boy or man and can also be used to refer the younger boy/man as a usually affectionate way to say close/good friend by an older man depending on the context it could also be familial in tone as well.

However it can also be used by an older man to demean/belittle or act superior to the young boy or man. So yeah so many meanings to one singular word of slang.

But hey this is Gerry’s Batman run which he had established Dick seeing Bruce as like a second father to him check Batman #339 for that context.

So, I see it having a double meaning to it because well Dick isn’t a stranger Bruce so that context wouldn’t make sense. So it must be the endearment kind which is just so sweet of Bruce, it also has some familial vibes to it as well due to how he worries for Dick’s well-being. To an outsider Robin is the close young friend to Batman but between Bruce and Dick they’re both father/son and close friends.

Also, I can see in Dick’s mind being quite happy when Bruce calls him his son in a way not that he’ll say it out loud. Also, while we know Dick see Bruce as like another father to him. Bruce however is a bit more vague on it but let’s be honest he acts like such a dad to Dick especially in Gerry’s Batman run.

God, I want to bash these two heads in for that. They’re truly in a way father/son in all but blood when comes to being so trash at communicating their feelings to others. Either way it just means they’re just very close in their case practically family.

Anyway, the comic book story this panel is from is really fun read and the art is really great as well with beautiful moody lighting, shading and atmosphere to it. So if you like Batman with some classic movie horror vibes to it, then I say give it a read if you can. I mean it’s got vampires in it what’s not to love lol.

The story starts from detective comics #515 detective comics #516 Batman comics #349 Batman comics #350 dc #517 Batman comics #351 and lastly comes to it conclusion at detective comic #518. :3c

#bruce wanye #batman #dick grayson #robin