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Starlin may dislike Robin in general rather than Jason personally, but when he writes shit like this where Jason is made to look like a bad student who Bruce struggles to teach, and Dick is the True hero who has to set him straight and clean up after him… it sure feels personal!
And look at the way Jason’s dialogue is written/ how he’s drawn in this issue and the issue prior:
He’s kind of… a huge dweeb. He’s obviously anxious, but in a way that fails to be endearing because he’s simultaneously shown to be careless.
He stumbles over his words in a way that indicates he’s struggling to face the situation at hand, and it’s made worse by the fact that Jason apparently finds getting reprimanded by Bruce or defying Nightwing to be a situation more difficult- more worthy of anxiety- than any of the other dangerous stuff he was doing. Like he really is written as someone who does not take the vigilante game seriously here.
Idk. This is a flashback issue which ends with Jason sort of redeemed by virtue of getting on good terms with Dick, and if this characterization had been allowed to stay in the past it would’ve been ok I guess. But Jason dies a little while later and instead of this little arc where Jason went from a shitty kid to a decent hero who made good on the legacy Dick left him, he is just Entirely defined as this shitty reckless kid.
Thanks I hate it!
#it’s not that I find the premise of this issue unreasonable#Of course Jason would’ve made mistakes starting out#how many times has Dick been boy hostage in the old old days lol#but the devil is in the details#notice that although Dick and Jason make up at the end of the story it’s really got nothing to do with Jason himself#and everything to do with how magnanimous Dick is#(and hey Dick is who this issue is about so I won’t bitch about that but)#we the readers are sort of left to assume that Jason got less shitty over time#that is how Jason went from this shitty Robin to the decent Robin we know- Dick’s influence#All this rambling just to say that I don’t take Starlin’s run very seriously#I’m not even invested in the arc of Jason learning to go from shallow to true hero#because the whole reason Bruce picked Jason up#trained him and continued to allow him to be his partner#is because he was so similar to Dick from the get-go#it’s a boring arc in comparison to what Collin’s set up with Bruce frequently comparing Jason to Dick during the months they were training#jason todd#batsalt
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