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trying to explain to ppl that talia being so young in her early comics is important to her character development as she grows up and out of her romantic naivety and becomes disillusioned and resentful of being used by the powerful men in her life and decides to forge her own path the way we all have to do when we get older

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~Stuart Sayger~

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more of those stupid reaction memes. But its duke thomas.

Orig under cut<3

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Jason hair hairy Jason Jason with hair

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OH NY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

IS MY MAAAAAAAN

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watching the Pitt it’s good but not a sparkling wonderful perfectly polished beautiful specimen of a show the way ER is in my head and also the women medical staff are wonderfully written mwah but there is a sexist tinge to the way the patients are written

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hi loves if u have 10 bucks spare you can go throw it at mal’s top surgery fund and I will draw you ANY dc character you want ^-^ n if u donate more than $10 i make ur drawing more pretty

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It’s just a scratch babes

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roy cleaning himself up to be alive and present for his daughter molding himself into his image of a father in the mirror and he cut his hair like Ollie and didn't realize. ok 👍🏻

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man, batman #409 is such a trip. ma gun trains an entire school of boys for a museum heist, boys who are all arguably around the same age and same social demographic/circumstances as jason, and jason repeatedly emphasizes how bad the cops and social services are for kids, only for bruce to adopt.....just him.....because he acted like a vigilante and stopped the heist (ideal robin candidate). there isn't even a mention of "bruce wayne" doing something for those other kids, but batman picks jason to ride off into the sunset with him, because jason acted in a way that set him apart from those other boys. even though jason is just like the other boys (poor), he acted like a vigilante would, which allows bruce to instantly project onto him and bring him into the vigilante life. bruce had already started projecting onto jason after learning about catherine and willis, but somehow, the ma gunn heist ends up being an audition for the role, an audition jason didn't know he was even giving. there's this intriguing review by @/cybernex on leagueofcomicgeeks about how lowkey tragic it is that the only way jason can escape his unfortunate circumstances is by turning into a crimefighter, and although i do think bruce & robin!jason's relationship is often so very sweet, it is also a story of how a young boy is ultimately shaped by the destiny his father wrote for him.

but what's interesting to me is how #409 is in conversation with #408. i've seen very few people mention this, but bruce doesn't instantly adopt jason after the tire meet-cute for a few reasons, the biggest reason of all being that he's in a phase where he's really questioning his impact as batman. dick's "death" in the media leads to a public outcry against batman, an outcry that vicki vale supports ("who better than bruce wayne to understand -- and take a stand against -- the violence of a batman? violence which can only lead to more violence.") bruce himself begins to wonder why he returns to crime alley as batman on his parents' anniversary, only to never visit again for the rest of the year. this is why he entrusts ma gun with jason. he outright says she's doing more for crime alley than he is (lol). bruce does not actually have any hubris in #408 and acknowledges that robin might be a dangerous job for little kids (heck, he even thought it was dangerous for dick, who was in his twenties atp).

but #409 undoes all of the developments in #408 through the reveal that ma gunn was secretly a villain this whole time. and this ends up accidentally becoming a sort of,,,,,fate thing for bruce. there's a world's finest issue (#7, i think?) where bruce says he was destined to meet dick and jason, and i think that mentality applies here as well. bruce thought he was going about things the wrong way, but when ma gunn is proven to be a villain and jason once again stumbles into his life at around the same time, it can't be anything else but fate that brought them together. bruce tried to hand jason off to someone else, to do things the non-batman way, but in the end, TO HIM, it feels like a sign that jason is back in batman's life. that they took ma gun down together. combine this with his empty nest syndrome post-dick and the craving he has as an orphan to create bonds and families, it must have all connected in bruce's mind like a puzzle. jason was meant for this life.

BUT THEN. the garzonas case happens, and ethiopia happens, and now bruce....once again begins questioning destiny, questioning himself, wondering if he fated jason to his death or if jason was doomed from the beginning. and then UTRH happens, and the "fate" aspect of it amplifies even more. now the question is - was jason always destined to become the red hood? which is just,,,,,so exemplative of how pattern-brained bruce is. everything has to fit a narrative; if something happens, there must always have been clues that led up to it. everything has got to be a part of a larger puzzle that he doesn't have the pieces to, because he doesn't know how to make sense of his own world without all of it having meaning. he can't fathom chance or acts of randomness. it's all about manifestation and destiny. there has to be a reason for everything, a clue he just hasn't found yet, because even at his grown age, bruce still hasn't made peace with the unknown and that things can just,,,,happen, even to the people we thought it would never happen to.

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this pisses me off so bad why would they make it h2sh and not hu2h. are they stupid.

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cocaine bloodhound jokes aside dick being cruel to Roy Re: substance use is not two people with the same experiences or vulnerabilities communicating + roy is the first second robin

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i think im just sick but im having visions

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top 5 jason comics

The Batman: Second Chances arc (aka Batman #408-411). What a good origin story. What a great use of antagonists to enhance Jason's character and his relationship with Bruce. What a great first meeting/Meet Ugly between two people who'll never become untangled from each other, no matter what comes.

Batman: Under the Hood (aka Batman #635-641, #645-650, Annual #25). THEE Batman comic, to me, as well. It changed the game in ways DC itself will never accept. And Jason himself? Superb. The antagonist I've wanted my whole life.

Red Hood: Lost Days #1-6. A great Jason comic all-around, amazing at filling in the blanks, really good at showcasing his character. And look! A female character and a complex dynamic with her right at the center of it!

Batman: The Diplomat's Son (aka Batman #424). Good Jason comic that doesn't quite know it's a good Jason comic because Starlin has a perspective on misogyny and sexual abuse that should be incomprehensible to sensible brains but alas xD. I'd include the following issue, although that's more of a "Bruce you goddamn hypocrite" comic than a Jason comic añsldkfja.

I'm between Green Arrow: Seeing Red (Green Arrow volume 3 #69-72), or Outsiders: Pay As You Go (Outsiders volume 3 #44-46, Annual #1), but although they are 1) good comics that 2) feature a great Jason, I wouldn't call them jason comics... OTOH you have Batman: A Death in the Family (Batman #426-429), which is a bad comic that manages to be a good Jason comic lol (yes, he dies. Yes, it's the true beginning of the victim blaming narrative. But at this point it could still believably be about Bruce's godawful coping methods and my god, I love Jason in it). You know what? I'm going to take a turn and say Superman: For the Man Who Has Everything (Superman Annual #11). Because "Jason saved the fucking Trinity from fucking Mogul" should be brought up as often as possible, if you ask me.

Honorable mentions go to "More Time" (Robin 80th Anniversary 100-Page Spectacular #1/5) or "The Delusions of Alfred Pennyworth" (Gotham Knights #34/2) or Supergirl volume 6 #35, I just like seeing him in those lol. Batman: The Cult #1-4 as well, honestly.

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happy little jaybin :]] i drew him whilst i waited for my laundry (i love you 24hr laundrettes)

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dukerino

a Signal that didn't make it into the book (of bats, out now)