thoughtsaboutdickgrayson:

Done by Steve Garcia and uploaded to Instagram

Is Steve Garcia famous? If not, he should be! These are really nice pictures.

Batman is the only one who doesn’t have a word to go with him. I think Steve mostly got it right. I mean, Dick could also be “loyalty” or “optimism” or “leadership” or any number of other awesome adjectives. But “trust” totally works.

I think Steve nailed it with Donna Troy: love. And according to his Instagram post, he doesn’t even know much about Donna!

Tim is “persistence.”

Damian is “bold.”

Starfire is “vivacious.” (definitely!)

Wally is “tradition.”

discowing:

ag-sasami:

koncubine:

dccomicconfessions:

“I hope that, somewhere along the line in the reboot, DC revamps the Red Robin series and puts Fabian and Marcus back on. I’d be a very happy fangirl.”

THIS FOREVER

Man, I gotta say I stand behind all of this except for the Fabian part. I have always hated the way FabNic writes Tim. Always. He becomes this super pretentious, self-involved, super heteronormative, douche bag when Fabian writes him. By and large, that isn’t Tim Drake based on all of his other writers. Does Tim get pretentious? Fuck yes. Is he self-involved? Sometimes, of course he is; he is both human and a teenager through most of this. The thing is though, these are only aspects of his personality, character flaws that sometimes come out in some situations. You know. Like a well developed character who is meant to be like a real person. And he’s mostly been aware of them, and he used to acknowledge it when he fucked up because he was dwelling in those parts of himself. Not always, but mostly. 

Except, when FabNic writes him, those flaws are all he’s reduced to. I feel like a quick summary of his internal monologue would read something like, ‘I’m Tim Drake-Wayne. I am a god among men. I love the ladies and the ladies love me. I am impossibly perfect. Nobody else has an opinion that matters, because I am clearly both superior and running this goddamn show.’ It’s like he becomes this weird Alpha Male, some caricature of what a “a real superhero” looks like. Manly man doing manly things. 

It makes me miss the super nerdy, self-aware Tim Drake that freaked out when he realized how expensive being a super hero was and how much he probably didn’t have that kind of money anymore. What about the Tim Drake who built himself a rocket skateboard when his car got taken away, who listened to Enya and let his best friend make fun of him for it? Where is the Tim Drake who actually feels guilty for lying to people he cares about and has what borders on an obsessive fear of failure? Tim Drake used to cry over everything, and it was awesome. He used to feel things that weren’t related to how awesome he is or perceives himself to be. What was great about Tim was that when he messed up he knew it and acknowledged it. He was incredibly relatable.

When Chris Yost wrote Red Robin we had a Tim Drake who was faced with the very real sense of being both bereaved and completely, utterly lost in the world, not knowing who he was anymore and where the hell he was going. With Fabian Nicizea we have a Tim Drake who thinks he is without sin and above judgement (literally, I think actually including a phrase that says, roughly, ‘I am totally without a single flaw’ during the arc where Gotham was being judged by Azrael et al.).Granted, the early arc of RR had Tim Drake dealing with abandonment issues and the loss Bruce Wayne. I will grant that FabNic did not have this level of angst to deal with and that might make the latter 2/3 of RR less compelling from an emotional standpoint. But Tim wrestling with very real identity issues, even in the context of being a superhero, made him endearing and identifiable. Even without that kind of personal drama though, Tim can be a very real person in his very unreal role as a superhero.

However, the fact remains that FabNic is consistent in his depiction of Tim, from way back when he was Robin under Bruce’s Batman until now when he is essentially independent. And I feel like the longer he writes Tim, the less he looks like my favorite character.  

so well said

thebatsbirds:

Batman #704

Fun Fact: To this day, Damian refuses to eat sushi.

If you don’t get it, click the photo.

kazmet:

Young Justice Designation

↳ B01 Robin

jeffwingerush:

bless you

http://archiveofourown.org/works/192152

From the Young Justice anon meme, for the prompt:

1. Roy is the oldest.
2. He’s 21 first.
3. He gets alcohol for KF and Robin.
4. ???
5. ???
6. Profit!

I’d sort of like drunk slashy-shippiness with some age-consent-wrong going on, but really I just want KF, Robin, and Speedy Red Arrow Speedy ROY drinking together.

discowing:

daggerpen:

vampykitty-kun:

Where Gotham City is ‘located’ compared to the rest of the surrounding cities.

If you look on a normal map, this chunk of land does not exist. So it’s great to see where the comics intended it to be placed.

I still love this.

Or are we just led to believe it doesn’t exist…

Just Like You: Part 13/14

incogneat-oh:

Summary: Robin nearly kills a man on patrol. This is a story about repercussions.

Characters: Tim, Dick. Offscreen Bruce.

I am so very sorry how long it took me to get to this. But this chapter is significantly the longest, so I hope that somewhat makes up for it. Plus I am super behind on homework as a result, so

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heckyeahbatfam:

While reading Jason-centric comics (not necessarily this comic in particular), I am frequently irritated by the attitude most modern writers take toward his years as Robin, as they often paint him in a negative and malevolent light. Obviously, Jason is a darker character than his predecessor (it’s not difficult to be a little bit darker than Dick Grayson), but I would argue that the thought process behind his policy on crime is justified for someone of his upbringing.

Jason is raised from birth in Crime Alley, and while we don’t know precisely what kind of horrors he most likely had to deal with on an everyday basis, we do know that he was orphaned by his mother’s drug addiction and her eventual overdose. This factor alone would be enough to profoundly impact a young boy- especially one such as Jason, with no real father figure to speak of. As a street kid, he’s forced to resort to various criminal acts to keep himself alive, and I would argue that the burning anger he feels toward criminals and the emotional baggage he carries after being removed from the situation are absolutely warranted.

And, while I don’t excuse his sometimes excessive use of force, the reasoning and thought process behind them seem to be pretty sound. Jason’s most extreme cases of lost temper seem to be triggered by violence against underprivileged women, children, and innocents in general. Having grown up himself under the very real threat of physical and possibly sexual violence for at least half of his “childhood” (if it can be called that), Jason’s hardhearted approach to crime is rooted in an understandable and righteous desire to protect the impoverished. He believes in a zero-tolerance policy on crime because he believes himself to be a product of it.

The real point I’m trying to get across here is that -at least during his time as Robin- Jason is not malicious or violent for the sole purpose of being malicious or violent. The foundation of life on the streets for him had been one of a kill-or-be-killed nature; the survival skills he’d learned on the streets had been a necessary evil. Strike hard and fast, end the altercation as quickly as possible. At a distinct disadvantage on the streets due to his age and size, Jason hadn’t had the luxury of worrying about holding back- a mindset that proves difficult to release as he grows into his Robin persona.

Arguably, the bedrock of difference between Dick Grayson and Jason Todd is grounded in their individual upbringings. Dick hadn’t been trained to be a fighter while traveling with his parents in Haly’s Circus, hadn’t needed to worry about defending himself against people two, three times his size. Jason, however, had been born into a much harsher world: the mold of his particular brand of street fighting had long hardened by the time he met Batman in a back alley.

So… let’s cut the kid some slack, shall we?

doodlesaresketcheswithnoodles:

Daily doodle #87 - Batman Month #4

Challenging Questions for the Fandom

birdflash:

hmmaster:

The most popular ship on Young Justice is clearly Spitfire. It’s a really well done slow build, and although I don’t agree with all of the choices they made concerning that build-up, it really paid off with a well-written romance on a popular “children’s cartoon.” And it’s hardly a coincidence that Wally and Artemis are the most popular characters among the fandom, so is there a correlation? 

But what if Spitfire had never happened? Imagine a show where Wally and Artemis had never gotten together, where both were single for the entire show and were not involved in any canon romantic pairings.  

Would either character be as popular as they are? Is Wally’s comic relief enough of a reason to be popular? Would Artemis’s backstory with Sportsmaster and Cheshire be enough to make her interesting, and see her moral dilemna in Season One, without Wally there to help break down those walls? 

I’m of the opinion that Artemis could most likely still stand on her own, albeit a little less interestingly.

But I’m not so sure about Wally. His major character arc has been Spitfire, and you can’t really deny that fact. So what if Spitfire had never happened? Would he be nearly as popular as he is? 

You could say that we’re reducing Wally to another relationship, but I just want to say that he was also wildly popular before Artemis even showed up because of his friend/ship with Dick. (This doesn’t take away from or lessen his relationship to Artemis.)

Wally was never “just comic relief,” ever.

He had a nice arc going from fighting with Dick over leadership in Drop Zone to understanding Dick’s difficult leadership decisions in Failsafe to supporting Dick and being excited for him to be leader in Image, even though Wally had just saved a country before in Coldhearted and could have used that as leverage to say he could be leader (some people were surprised he didn’t). In Coldhearted he learned to appreciate helping people for the sake of helping people. He supported him in Failsafe when he saw that Dick really had no choice, but he called him out in Performance when Dick was relying on himself too much. Wally went out of his way to understand, and he was really nice about it when he did.

In fact, Wally was consistently helpful and thoughtful of other people and aware of the big picture and responsible around him, and didn’t hesitate to let Dick know when he was being careless or not a team player in Independence Day and Drop Zone and also for being rude to Red Tornado in Happy Harbor (along with Kaldur), and Dick didn’t hesitate to call him out when he was out of line, too.

This is to say nothing of the way they helped each other intellectually Humanity and Homefront (and Artemis, there, too!). 

They were funny and smart and had hair-pulling and teasing and arguing and lots of trust and faith in each other and great support when they needed it and were generally extra-ordinarily layered.

They interacted (exchanging lines) in 15 or 16 episodes in S1 (I have to double check on one), whereas Wally and Artemis interacted in 13-14 since she didn’t show up until episode 6, and the comics even more! Since he also talked to other people, those who say that all his development is around her ignores more than half of his character growth/interactions.

Please don’t do that; he’s a great character.

I’m reluctant to give fandom numbers because it’s not a contest between friend/ships, but since it’s a question of “popularity,” if someone’s interested I’m happy to share what I have.

But yes, Wally was really, really popular outside of Artemis, too.

tealgeezus:

fyeahdickanddamian:

chemicalparade207:

Do you realize how happy this made me.

I sure hope this means Damian is gonna be in the game.

He better be. And what if the first person you have to “fight” is Nightwing, because he’s the one training you and it’s just this scene and asjkasjdjsadh.

Bringing this back because… oh.

nooowestayandgetcaught:

scarefaux:

razzzmatazz:

[x]

#LAUGHS AS I TAG THIS #royjaytim

#i wanna tag it as #timkonbart #asdfghjkl

see that one is far yummier

justplainsomething:

meg720:

Timmy is a precious lovely and Jason is such a little shit and I love it.

robiningravens:

I’m looking at Red X but seeing Jason Todd.