#but the fact it can't even manage to choose accurate costumes?

[zahri-melitor]

I opened Robins and I actually think my biggest complaint about this title is actually that Tim Seeley doesn't know when this story is happening. It's signposting one thing and then the art is suggesting a very different thing, and then referencing a third thing...

Like, if you want to write what is supposedly a high-context reflective miniseries referencing old stories with the characters, it would help if you actually set the story in a period, so we know what characters know what.

And Dick-in-a-manbun (his hair hasn't been that long and shaggy for decades) and realistically a version of his Nightwing costume that hasn't been seen at ANY point in Rebirth (no boot stripes, no hand texture), Damian in a costume he stopped wearing in late 2020, Steph using the name Spoiler and in a mash up of her Rebirth Spoiler costume with a purple bat on her chest that does NOT match her costuming once she took the title of Batgirl again, as she moved to a half mask not a full face mask in 2021, Tim getting referred to as 'Red Robin' but wearing his NINETIES Robin costume and also having Damian make a Drake joke?

When is this supposed to be set? How is anyone supposed to believe this? If Tim has been 'Drake' it means it has to be after September 2020 as that's when he changed back to Robin, but at that point Damian's stopped wearing green and is running around in assassin gear in the prelude to switching to his grey costume, and Dick has only just grown out a buzzcut! Steph stopped being Spoiler around the end of 2020!

Are you trying to suggest this title happened in very late 2020, when Damian's going wildly off the rails and running away? Because that's my best guess for the costuming to almost line up, but that is extremely not the Damian you've put on page!

(also Tim Seeley pretty obviously doesn't actually care about several of the characters appearing in it, making things harder)