#issue 39

[barrenclan]

"The Death of BarrenClan: Part Five"

And with that, the "Death of BarrenClan" arc comes to an end! Thank you all for reading along and for the wonderful response to each issue.

The comic is not over yet; there are four issues left, plus a series of epilogues, where our cast will have to mourn their losses, pick up the pieces of their lives, and figure out what to do next.

For the last few issues of the comic, I've also decided to offer an early release of the next issue on my Patreon at the $5 and above tier. It'll post in a few days, and if there's continuing interest in this, I'll do the same for the last issues after the preceding one is publicly released.

Here's the link to my Patreon.

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[dailydccomics]

idk why but this panel made me LOL

[johannepetereric]

Dodging the Starblast Attack can be saved by going under and uppercut like Benkei. That’s how Ginga beat D20 King

[cryoverlife]

The only reason some “kid’s books” are called kid’s books is cause the trauma the twelve year old went through is never properly addressed.

[futuristichedge]

Espio testosterone comic

[asthevermincrawls]

I think the real reason destruction left the endless is because he was the only one who wasn't goth. every family get together is just his siblings talking about dream's disastrous love life and the novel new human musicians known as Bauhaus. and he had enough. my man just wants to talk about light beer and fooball leave him be

[eiitsuya]

x: but jason can't be judge, jury and executioner!! he can make mistakes and kill someone who didn't deserve it!!

bruce:

listen i get that you don't like jason as a character or for his morals (if you even think he has them) but don't come at me saying that as if the whole batfamily doesn't do the same, the only difference is that they don't kill people (even if they do get close to almost kill some of the criminals they fight, in multiple occasions).

also, they ended up catching the real killer because the sister of one of the women he killed lures him and kills him, she confesses and they treat her like the bad guy when bruce himself said that if the killer had died it wouldn't be so much of a loss.

AND, BECAUSE I JUST GOT MAD WHILE RE-READING THE WHOLE THING, this happens before they catch the killer:

bruce, honey, you literally did and said the exact same thing don't fuckin mames

[repressedqueen]

okay, our boy has impeccable taste in men....

[instantpansies]

life is hard for us oz fans who are only meh about wicked. have half a meme.

[lygma-nygma]

Knowing the original reason(s) that Dick became Nightwing and then reading comics like Nightwing: Year One is just so annoying. Like what is the deal with more modern rewrites making everything surrounding Dick and Bruce super edgy and angsty when the original version of the story was perfectly fine?? It’s like DC Comics is on a mission to assassinate both of their characters to make Dick into a ‘sad boy’, it’s infuriating.

Original Pre-Crisis Nightwing Lore: Yeah I'm just kind of getting too old to be Robin. Like it or not Robin is forever and always going to be known as Batman's sidekick and I just don't feel like that fits me anymore. I'm the leader of the Teen Titans and I spend most of my time doing that and solo missions now anyway. I think I'm going to drop the mantle, take a step back, and find a new identity. Original Post-Crisis Nightwing Lore: I got shot and fell off a building during a mission and almost died right in front of Bruce. It shook him up and made him super afraid of me dying so he told me he wasn't going to run with a Robin anymore because he didn't want my death to be his fault. I was annoyed about him treating me like a kid and that he was throwing all the years we worked together away over one incident but he said it wasn't like that, he just hoped I was old enough to understand where he was coming from. I told him that there was no way I wasn't going to continue being a hero and he fully supported me saying that he would always be there to help if I needed it. I was still hurt by it all, especially when Jason showed up, but ultimately I came to understand why it happened and got over it. Edgy Retcon Nightwing Lore: I went out of my way to SAVE him and then I got PUNISHED because I didn't do it right and wasn't prioritizing Gotham enough despite my THIRTEEN THOUSAND JOBS but I'm not surprised because he's always been unreasonable and HATES ME so now I'm not Robin anymore because Batman is an awful person and emotionally abuses me. And just to be clear it's not like Dick and Bruce didn't fight before the retcon, frequently being at each other's throats is literally a core aspect of their relationship, but I'm just so tired of them retconning every interaction they have into some overdramatic spat. Way to completely strip Dick of all his agency as a character and turn Bruce into an empty cardboard cut out of himself. Hope the angst points are worth it.

EDIT: I also want to add that fights between Bruce and Dick used to have a lot more nuance than they do now. The B&D fights used to be caused by a breakdown in communication on BOTH sides, not just Bruce's. The 'Jason becoming Robin' fight comes to mind. In Batman #416 neither Dick's complaints nor Bruce's excuses made complete sense but that was the point. Bruce should have been better at reaching out but Dick was also expecting Bruce to be a mind reader and know how he was feeling without telling him. Dick left home without saying goodbye well Bruce was on a mission, Bruce assumed that meant Dick didn't want to see him and so avoided reaching out leading to the two of them not talking for a long time. Dick accepts that Bruce doesn't want him as Robin anymore in stride (he even smiles and shit about it) so Bruce doesn't realize that losing Robin actually hurt him, ex. It's that kind of fighting, the "I want to slam both your heads together" fighting, that I miss so much.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Had to flip through my omnis to find more speedo magneto

I JUST READ THAT ISSUE THIS WEEK LET'S GOOOOOOO

[barrenclan]

New issue tomorrow! 🪦

[yesterdayiwrote]

Lewis: I decided to shoot my shot with J Lo at the Met Gala...

George, immediately:

[samobservessonic]

Something different today!

I thought it'd be nice to show you all what these comics would've looked like in person, since the online scans invariably have their free gifts stolen by the news agent lol. I found these copies of issues 39 and 40 on eBay, with the free gifts still attached. One of of the stickers is missing, but its still a great find. Here's a closer look at the stickers on the back:

And yeah, StC had ads. They're obviously not included in the scans I use, but they were part of the experience. Unlike with Archie Sonic comics, these ads would be placed around the stories without interrupting them, not in the middle of them (tho IDW Sonic wins this by only having a few ads, mostly for other IDW titles, at the end)

Also, maybe it was fate, but both the issues I got had those Marxio Bros stories in them

Lastly, Maisy does not care that these are pieces of Sonic history, she just knows that they're taking my attention from her:

[shoot-i-messed-up]

diversity win! the chief of protocols in the Green Lantern Corps has had one (1) confirmed male lover!

[gordontv]

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