#sorry to be a downer i usually try to remain more optimistic but eh

[ectonurites]

ik you weren't psyched about the robins comic (the dc round robin one), but did you read the new preview pages? Thoughts?

Still not psyched about it lmao. I still have my same problems with Seeley being the one to write it, like that hasn't changed

In general though putting opinions about the writer himself aside, I really wasn't impressed by the preview. I've said before I do think the concept of the story (Robins meeting to discuss the role) is interesting but everyone feels kinda... off. Out of that group Dick's not who i'd peg as the one to start making very specific D&D references out on the field, ya know? (Especially considering two other characters in this book have been shown to play RPGs before at least once in previous comics) Like... I'm just not a huge fan of 'the whole gang is here to quip at each other the whole time!' which is the vibe this preview gives off, but that's definitely a very subjective thing.

Also though, my bigger issue: I'm very confused on when this could even be happening, like is this even supposed to be in-continuity because based on costumes and things said in these pages there's literally nowhere this fits? Which is super lame for something that people had to vote for like... a story concept like this and it's not even gonna be something that fits in anywhere for real?

Why is Tim in his original 90's Robin costume when everyone else is in Rebirth era costumes, but he's being called Red Robin, and also they’re making reference to him having been Drake? (Also why does Damian say he was 'The Drake' there was no 'The' with that title) None of that lines up at all!

And if Tim has already been Drake... that happened during the Ric Grayson era, and if we're post-Ric, Steph should have a bat symbol (since that also happened during Joker War when Dick got his memories back), Damian wouldn't be associating with any of them and wouldn't be in that costume anymore, and Jason absolutely wouldn't be in the costume he hasn't worn since before Heroes in Crisis. Like, man, I'd get it if one or two costumes were a little off to give a fan favorite look instead, but literally NONE of these costumes make sense together with what's said on the page. (and its not like 'oh maybe they're gonna switch to these costumes now!' bc that would make zero sense with how recent some of the costume changes were) So right away that's bugging the shit out of me.

Like, fan stuff can mix and match costumes as much as they want bc like its for fun go off, but actual published comics that want to talk about canon events (because that's the whole thing! the purpose of this comic is to discuss their times as Robin, things that are... actual past canon events) should... perhaps display some understanding of current events in the timeline? But Seeley has already written a story with these five that disregarded it so idk why I'm surprised 🤪 (the one in Batman: Gotham Nights #12 that had Tim as Drake with Dick as Nightwing, a combo that didn't really happen anywhere else because all of the Drake stuff happened while Dick was Ric. But like that book was already mostly established as not strictly canon so it didn't phase me as much)

So yeah, was not 'wowed' by the writing and the choices of costumes is annoying the crap out of me, so still unexcited ✨

Looking way more forward to how the solicits that just dropped revealed in August in Robin #5 we’re getting an actually for sure in-continuity story with this exact group! This looks a lot better to me: