#batman azrael

[msfcatlover]

Honestly, my favorite thing about Jean-Paul Valley is that he is, at his core, Just Some Guy(TM). I think DC should put more emphasis on how much he is Just Some Guy(TM). Whenever they try to make him cool or mysterious, it’s so much less fun than when he’s fighting as well as Batman while having no idea what’s going on. The tiny moment where he held a baby and there was a single silent panel across most of the page where you could just see his heart melt. When he sees his first serial murder scene, has a breakdown, and practically flees the area while asking himself how Bruce handled all the blood. When his dad first showed up to pass on the mantle, and Jean-Paul freaked out, because his dad was bleeding out in his apartment!

These are the moments that make him fun! Let him be Just Some Guy(TM)!

I don’t want him to monologue about needing to "work alone," I want him to be exhausted & to start comparing being Batman to taking finals with a double course load, or working retail on Black Friday, or something. I want to see him recognize when he’s in over his head. I want to know what his major was, and what sports he played in school, and I want to see them crop up as unexpected assets in hero work.

The moments when he questions himself are the moments where he’s most engaging. The moments when he’s allowed to be his own person outside of the hypnotically-implanted fighting skills are when he’s the most interesting. The moments when the writers remember that he’s Just Some Guy(TM) are when he’s at his best.

…Well. That, and when Selina said, “Boy, your religious hang ups are so bad, I can literally smell it on you!”

[kollectorsrus]

[everwalldigan]

To anyone who thinks Bruce has a clear and consistent favourite child I raise you this: it is infinitely funnier for Bruce to have a complicated and elaborate “ranking” system of his kids that only he’s privy to.

Picture this: Batman, dosed with truth serum, gets asked as a gag from one of the goons holding him captive who his favourite bat-vigilante is and instead of giving a straight answer, he launches into this whole explanation about the ranking system and who’s in the current lead, who’s hanging behind, etc. At some point (this is a mystery to everyone involved) a whiteboard appears and he starts explaining his system like he’s a football coach before an important match. Out of nowhere he starts pulling out little cardboard cutouts of his kids and pins them to the board. At some point the red string comes out.

Jason hasn’t killed someone in a week? Automatically promoted to favourite. Tim hasn’t caused an international incident in the past month? Puts him a few points ahead that keep decreasing the longer he refuses real sleep (20 minute power naps don’t count Tim! Says powernap inventor Bruce Wayne). Cass gave him a hug this morning and wished him a good day? Favourite until he gets a call from dick telling him (without shouting!!!!) that he’ll be there for this week’s Sunday dinner. Duke accidentally scratches the Batmobile? Demoted to the “in trouble” zone (which, honestly, that’s where his kids spend most of the time in😭). Damian did not attempt to free all the animals in the zoo they visited? Favourite. Until Bruce found out he was just trying to conceal the cat hidden in his room that Bruce explicitly forbade him from keeping.

Dick arrives at the family dinner with a busted shoulder and a bruise the size of Texas on his face? Gets demoted so far down that even azraeil scores higher than him. He’s in the “in trouble” zone for a constant month after that. Oh one of them survived an almost death? Favourite for at least the next week. At least. Multiple people survive an almost death? EVERYONES the favourite. The least favourite is the growing grey hairs on his head.

The end of day results are decided by who bothers to wish him goodnight and if all of them have fucked up in some way the past week then Jon (Kent) becomes the automatic favourite until someone cracks a joke that Bruce actually finds funny.

The favourite child changes daily, hourly even, and his kids are aware this system exists and keep trying to crack the code but he always Knows and just smirks smugly.

[hyperactive-rogue]

Cass expressions ^_^ she emotes like Spider-Man

I just finished reading Batgirls, so I'll try and draw a few more things with them soon

[kartsie]

The sword said so…

[comicpop]

Batman/Punisher: Lake of Fire from DC and Marvel

[wwprice1]

No Man’s Land era Bat Family by Ty Templeton.

[why-i-love-comics]

Detective Comics #1086 - "Crescendo III" (2024)

written by Ram V art by Stefano Raffaele & Lee Loughridge

[whereistim]

Save me 90’s Gotham save me…

I was just wondering what would happen if you put a knight from the Order of St Dumas and an actual demon in the same room, and with them both in Gotham… there’s a chance. I also like to think that Helena and Tim try and think of the most random heroes to pair together and brainstorm what would happen as a thought exercise

[junimo-hexed]

I miss them so much, they were such good friends...

[jalapainio]

Tim is like… 14 years old when Knightfall happens. He's not even a year into being Robin, trying to deal with his mother's death and worrying about whether or not he's getting his license early, and suddenly Bane comes and FUCKING BREAKS BRUCE’S BACK.

[catastrophicalcat]

Cass' line is so simple, and so loaded.

Meanwhile, Azrael is so... Azrael lol.

(Detective Comics #1086)

[elirium]

[mothemotics]

Tim you have to stop tormenting this poor ex grad student he's not prepared for how cruel a bisexual 13 year old can be

[inhousearchive]

House-ad for the four-issue miniseries Batman: Sword of Azrael (1992).

[murkyrahh]

And now he knows how Joan of Arc felt!...

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