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Bruce, coming back from Knightfight (if he isn’t dead): So J’onn, how is my son?
Martian Manhunter: Well- how do I say this?
Martian Manhunter: he’s in the 5th dimension
Bruce: wtf happened while I was gone-
If I had Terra’s abilities, I would take the Magneto approach and infuse my clothes with the thing I can control. If she can control gemstones, I would wear a bejeweled outfit. Though otherwise I would just wear boots with a lot of dirt on them
imagine being dick grayson and you get fired from your job and then your girlfriend breaks up with you and then the place your parents died burns to the ground and then your apartment explodes and then ur twin dies and then you have a situationship with roy harper and then ur city explodes and then your dead brother comes back to life and starts killing people and to make everything worse his new helmet looks like tylenol
Batman: "Now hold on a damn second. You cannot mean..."
Nightwing: "I didn't do so badly, ok. I even took the shooter to the police."
Bruce: "That' worse! You're injured! Just because... All right all right. Explain to me exactly how this happened."
Dick: "I had to throw a line from the stick while I pushed myself from the wall with the other hand, but then my phone rang..."
Bruce: "Why the hell are you answering your phone in the middle of a fight?!"
Dick: "Because it was Tim!"
Tim: "Right."
Bruce: "God, give me patience."
Dick: "If it had been anyone else I would have gone 'nah...' but it was Tim."
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[#My little piece on the "Dick Grayson would never ever in this or any other universe not answer a phone call from his beloved brother Timothy Drake" subject.]
hey remember when green arrow beat deathstroke by dropping him in a glue pit. what the hell. looney tunes shit. and after he hired deathstroke to kill him? ga 2001 got wild man.
I think NTT has a very big theme about consent and bodily autonomy as a whole. Because yeah there's the part with Slade and Terra, but beyond that every character deals with it somewhat.
There's Raven's conception and some elements of her relationship with Trigon.
Wally's torn feelings between love and hate for Raven as a result of the love spell she put on him and his fear of doing something with her that he wouldn't have prior to it.
Cyborg's modifications to his body when he explicitly didn't want them and would have rather died;
Similarly, Gar's genetic change dictating the rest of his life, plus all the flirting (which he uses as a way to distract himself, but it's still really wrong.);
Kory's status as a slave, and Mirage disguising as her to pose naked in a magazine;
Mirage tricking Dick to sleep with her when he clearly wouldn't have otherwise;
Donna marrying a much older man (which isn't necessarily bad but it does have to do with her agency);
Sometimes when one hears phrases like "people are good inside" it feels naive.
Then you read about Tolkien saying "For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words."
This man fought through WWI, surviving the trenches, gas, shelling, machine guns, the works. he lost almost all his friends. He saw WWII, the atrocities committed, the camps, the atomic bomb...
And still he said that. The man saw the absolute worst of humanity and found he was becoming less cynical as time went on. And that is an encouraging thought.
Praying to God that the new Red Hood comic, which comes out in September, will be good.
We don’t know much about it so far, but what we do know seems promising:
Jason is out of Gotham, perhaps permanently
The leather jacket, white streak, and guns return!
It seems to be an actual detective story, solving a murder. All Jason’s-Not-An-Idiot Truthers rejoice!
Helena is in it!
Update: it’s confirmed he’s killing again!
Obviously, we don’t know any particulars yet. Hopefully the writer won’t hate him. I’m also hoping they don’t try to push a Jason/Helena romance (which the released art does suggest). I also wish we’d see the return of the All-Blades, but who knows? Depending on the success of this series, maybe there’s potential?
New 52 Introduces us to an all-new Batman in a freshly rebooted universe. But what's new isn't always shiny and cool. Let's talk about the first arc of New 52's Batman run per the Compact Comics editions which contains the first 11 issues.
I would like to say that I didn't hate the story, but there were a lot of problems I had that made it feel more of a jumbled mess than cohesive. A lot of elements of the characterizations, the concept of the Court of Owls, and the general vibe of the story were a lot of fun. I enjoyed many of those aspects and things surrounding them.
Unfortunately I felt this story a little underwhelming, but that could be an effect of hearing a lot of the hype about this story.
I don't mind the concept of the Court of Owls, but they weren't even the main villains of their own story. Maybe because it's hard to make a group of people a target for Bruce especially since they don't even fight. It's not necessarily like other villains where there's a "head honcho" with a gang of subordinates, instead it's vice versa. I think the mystery of the Court in the first half of the story does a lot of heavy lifting for my engagement, but it wanes heavily once the veil gets lifted. The become such non-players in this story it felt baffling.
Having their muscle, Talon, fight with no real substance rang hollow. I felt it unclear whether they were zombies on puppet strings or was just groomed/influenced to follow the Court's orders. It seemed almost like both was the case, but they rarely got enough attention for either of those scenarios to really be explored.
Not to mention some random weirdo (Lincoln March aka Thomas Wayne Jr aka Owlman??) be the surprise main villain was kind of annoying. New "allies" introduced with new villains is always an obvious red flag (as per Hush lol), but this reveal felt the most left field to me. His character feels so dumb, and I guess he's unpopular because I don't think he's ever really relevant even ~15 years later. I definitely much prefer the named "Lincoln March" over Thomas Wayne Jr. I think it would've felt more poetic for him to identify more with the streets he "died" on then a name that wasn't ever officially given to him (plus it sounds cooler). I definitely hate the whole "long lost sibling" trope used here. I think it can be good if used right, but it didn't feel like the case here.
A better reveal could have him be the real leader of the Court by either using the Talon technology to be effectively immortal or his family line was secretly the head throughout generations. Once he becomes head, he could've thought the Court's secretive nature was ridiculous which is what would make him decide to be more public now. He's whole "the enemy of my enemy is.... also my enemy" approach felt very random and chaotic too. At the end of the day he was just a kid throwing a fit, which even if that was the point it didn't felt satisfying.
Side things:
Don't feel like this arc was interesting enough to start a rebooted universe run. Like this story didn't have a big shiny "wow" factor and felt more like a generic Batman story with some minor changes to adjust for New 52.
Felt weird to have 3 Robin boys show up, but only really as gratuitous cameos instead of actual supporting characters.
I liked Dick's moments in the story, but he felt like he was there just to give Bruce some pep talks every so often
from what I heard, the court of owls stuff was originally going to be used by Scott Snyder when Dick was Batman, during what turned out to be the end of his time as Batman.
But then Bruce got brought back, so Scott was forced to make it centre around the other Batman.
I had no idea that this was originally going to be Dick's story and now I'm so mad 😭 I can tell this definitely would have felt much better as his story too
Me, looking at Titans, as well as Deathstroke Knights and Dragons: where is Grant?
Me, after Joey has been introduced: where is Grant?
Me, after Rose has been introduced: where is Grant?
Me, after both seem to make Joey Adeline and Slade’s only child: Where is Grant?!
Me, after finding all the audience can find out about that version of Slade: WHERE IS GRANT?!
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