I've been bamboozled!

Giving Jason the same origin of Dick was very intentional! They wanted to reestablish the young Robin and Batman roles so it would feel the same as older Batman comics (because they weren’t selling as well without little Robin) but people were really enjoying grown Dick’s adventures with the Teen Titans. Jason was meant to be the fan’s way to have their cake and eat it too, with Dick becoming Nightwing and growing up with his team, but also have a young Robin (who was just like the original) running around with Batman. But the fan reaction was a combination of “okay I guess” and a bit of “who does this kid think he is replacing Dick Grayson!”

So we did this and the book came out, Denny was on all these talk shows across the country that day saying, it's kind of funny because he was taking credit for the whole project. But as soon as the book came out and Robin died, the executives up at DC started going "Whoof!" because they had all these lunch pails withs Robin's picture on it—suddenly it was all my idea again.

DC Comics needed a new Robin, and fast, but they had successfully convinced the majority of their audience that they did not want Robin and, in fact, preferred the character dead. They had to create a Robin liked by people who didn't like Robin; a Robin for the Post-Modern Age. Enter Tim Drake.

[...] Rumours at the time suggested that Carrie would take up the now-empty role 30, but such an event was most likely prevented from occurring for the same reasons that Robin could not simply be left as dead: those lunch pails needed selling. DC Comics needed a Robin who looked like Dick Grayson and Jason Todd had—dark hair, white skin, male—and equally importantly, he had to be obviously distinct from the "uneducated children" which the readers had been coached into disliking."

You’re concerning, actually. What’s up with always jumping to sexualize normal interactions with children?

By your logic, Bruce, Clark, Dick, Oliver, the whole damn superhero roster, are “predators.”

Stop using these real world issues and heavy weight words to demonize a character or story you’re not fond of. What a boot licker behavior.

There u go!! Idk if i understood the assignment but hope u like it shdkdjldjsk 💙💙

The shield. The absurd boot-thigh-highs. The holsters. The shoulder plating. IM TELLING YOU.

Strap this on a younger Dick à la this guy:

Or even this guy:

Long hair if you want it:

The nonprofit’s set to receive a donation of 21 tons of tubers this weekend from suppliers in the Midwest. Hoping to get the starchy vegetables to people in need, the nonprofit will host a “Potato Palooza” event on Monday in Park Hill. “Anyone is welcome to come. They can bring tote bags, wagons, you could back up your pickup truck if you wanted to,” Hissong said. The event is 9 a.m. to noon at the Park Hill Food Recovery Hub, 6090 East 39th Avenue, on July 27.

This is the dream

People near Denver, Colorado.

Potato alert. Potato alert.

Free food. Unlimited free potatoes.

Potato alert.

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you dont see many other characters that can demonstrate very real attributes and feelings of the people the problem is dc doesnt want to make social commentary so they shoot jason in the foot

On the other, though… he lost so much sauce since the 70s. The white t-shirt and jeans is fine, I guess. He had a turtleneck in a previous issue. That’s whatever. But like.

He used to have outfits.

Where’s the drip? The flair? The je ne sais quoi?

Imagine for a second you are Adrian surname The Eridian. Your spouse has been missing and presumed dead for around a decade, and suddenly one day an alien spaceship comes into orbit. And you cheer "Yay alien species have realized we have the same problem and have come to either give us a solution or join or efforts, too bad my mate is still gone."

Except he is not actually gone, because the eridian equivalent of a carebear decided to save them. And he doesn't want anything in return, in fact he is well aware that he might die A PAINFUL SLOW DEATH, shortly after fighting just to get the love of your life back to you. But it's ok :) because Rocky (yes he gave them a silly name) is my best friend! Oh- Are you ok-

my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.

so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"

i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet

so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!

keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.

finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."

i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.