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i don’t think people who don’t read comics/mostly read wfa understand how much of a dweeb tim drake actually is because he was supposed to be a Good Role Model For Tween Boys in the 90s. one time he found out his roommate at boarding school was an alcoholic so he poured all his alcohol down the drain instead of just ignoring it like a normal person. his girlfriend wanted to have sex with him and instead of just saying “i’m not ready” he launched into a monologue about how “making love is like opening a door” and he “isn’t ready to open that door yet” because they “might have adult feelings for each other, but [they’re] still just kids.” 90s tim was the type of kid to remind the teacher to assign homework. he somehow got mad bitches even though everyone highkey thought he was weird. in one panel of one issue he randomly said he had to be “vewwy quiet” and never spoke like that again. he canonically plays dungeons and dragons (or the fictional dc equivalent). the money his dad left him after he died wasn’t even a lot because his dad went bankrupt shortly before his death. like it was a substantial amount but not enough to make him rich. i cannot stress enough that tim was SUCH a Regular Guy TM and constantly worried about not standing out. he purposefully did bad at sports and pretended to be winded in gym class so people wouldn’t suspect anything. like he wouldn’t even try and be average, he would purposefully almost fail. he is not a cool rich skater kid guys he’s such a dork

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Very fun pre-crisis piece of Batman canon that's technically in play again is that when Dick left for college, Bruce was an incredibly melodramatic empty-nester about it.

He was like, looking soulfully into Dick's bedroom full of his stuff and narrating the comic like his kid had died.

And when Dick dropped out of college (after either one or three semesters but also the entire Vietnam war pretty much) he loudly and melodramatically projected his own shame onto a Bruce who wasn't saying anything of the kind, and did things like shout at him about judging for 'asking if he needed a hand with anything while stalking through the house in full robin costume and visible distress.'

This was the headspace Dick was in when the New Teen Titans formed under Raven's psychic influence; it led smoothly into a comic in which parents are consistently The Worst and/or die dramatically to get them out of the way; Batman being present as a good mentor would have thrown off the themes but in the early 80s he wasn't allowed to be written as a toxic jerk yet, so 'Dick projecting all his teenage angst onto his extremely chill batdad' was the starting move to keep Batman out of the new book.

He did get worse later, imo in part because he was being written to conform to the ntt parenting standard.

Meanwhile if you refer back to the inner monologue in the issue where Dick leaves for school, the most probable internal state for Bruce after Dick dropped out is something like 'it's really shitty of me to be happy about him being home again when the reason is so upsetting to him so i have to act Very Normal.'

And a pretense of Very Normal is very easy to project shit onto, because you can see they're hiding something so obviously it's the thing you're afraid they're thinking.

Ideal bat communication fail scenario imo.

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Managed to finish one more piece of animation before the new year! Part ?/??? of my Super Sons anim project, based on Superman #10 by Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason.

To anyone who's read the comic: why yes this DID get away from me when storyboarding, but I was having so much fun.

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this may be the stupidest thing ive made

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batgirl 🦇💕

nightwing | red hood | red robin | robin | spoiler | signal | oracle

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Together.

Batgirl (2000) #67 // Batgirl (2000) #27 // Batgirl (2000) #18 // Batman and Robin: Eternal #3 // Truth & Justice #16 // Batman & The Outsiders (2019) #9 // Batgirl (2000) #29 // Batgirl (2000) #60 // Batgirl (2008) #6 // Batgirl (2000) #59 + Batgirl (2024) #3

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[ID: a panel of Bruce Wayne and a young Dick Grayson. Bruce is leaning casually with a hand on Dick's shoulder. Dick, in pajamas and one hand in his pocket, looks confused. He is drawn without many facial features, and a speech bubble with a question mark in it is above his head. /End ID]

I love tiny baby confused Dick

Batman & Robin: Year One #4

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DAMIAN NATION, WE WON. THAT'S MY BOY RIGHT THERE!!!

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Kinda really wanna ramble of Batman’s no kill rule. Because it’s not really a no kill rule as much as it is a no death rule.

And I feel like I’m always seeing posts which try to act like because it’s normal not to want to kill someone that means Batman is somehow normal for his no kill rule (which, again, isn’t really a no kill rule but a no death rule).

Yes, it’s normal to not want to kill someone.

No, that isn’t what Batman’s no death rule is about.

And no, Batman is not normal for his no death rule. It’s extremely weird, and he is extremely weird about it.

It isn’t logical either for the record, it’s highly illogical and entirely emotions based and Batman refuses to be normal about it.

And That’s fine! In fact, it’s extremely interesting!!

But please, please can we stop pretending he’s normal about it? His stance is not normal! His stance is, like almost everything else about the guy, fucking insane!! That’s what makes him interesting!

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Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

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“good evening, sir. do you have any idea how fast you were going?”

im sorry for cop dick. he quits after he files the speeding ticket

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Hehehe 😊😘

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just shit

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Tim and Jason interactions are the only true sustenance in life and I will never get tired of seeing them.

also Jason’s theater kid dramatics are showing

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This was after he blew up all of the Leagues tech.

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Aren't you looking forward to seeing me， Dad？