EYES WIDE OPEN IN A CITY ASLEEP

everyone gets a complimentary Wayne Enterprises tote bag with their adoption papers 🧚‍♀️

who up porking their soda

three girls who handled their daddy issues very differently

New Gods (1984) #6

I probably missed some so feel free to mention it if so!!!

As for your last point that is exactly the kind of benevolent sexism & racism that is so insidious in Batfandom. Babs mature mom friend Cass therapy central and Steph happy glitter purple... Cass gets it really bad since she's a racialised woman but the way women are flattened into one-dimensional props is so disgusting. It's not progressive to ascribe 'positive' traits to them it's just a way to erase their emotions and decenter them from their own narratives. I'm kinda pissed because I was reading a Batfic the other day and the author kinda gave Cass' inner turmoil to Dick (which like fine it's kinda an AU), but then writes Cass COMFORTING him instead of exploring their parallels in any meaningful way!! Ough whatever whateverrrr. Anyway I so get your anger anon we'll get through this together ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Like Dukes internal conflict with his powers should and would never be that it makes him different from the Batfam, it would be that it separates him from his community. That Gnomon’s actions made people distrust him, view him as a deceiver or liar!That would crush him, and complement the racial themes of his character really well imo, it’s messy and interesting! You could even have Duke confront Gnomon about this and have a discussion about race with an immortal being who could have a different perception of the topic. Like have Gnomon think it’s a good thing that people fear Duke and have Duke explain that even if he wanted to, that tactic wouldn’t work for a person like him. People *can’t* be scared of The Signal in the same way they can be scared of Batman or even Superman, and this is kinda explored in WAR (the whole arc not just the specific WAR comics) a little bit but again, missed opportunity to really get into all this interesting set up for Duke specifically

People WANT "comics that are good AND ALSO comprehensible AND ALSO easy to find AND ALSO important" but that Venn diagram overlap is tiny. The real treasure is in "okay this is the 4-page backup story in an issue of Secret Origins from 1991 and the art is the worst thing you've ever put in your eyes, also it's never been reprinted or collected and isn't available legally digitally, it's the truest thing that's ever been said about The Character and you need to read it."

Like Dukes internal conflict with his powers should and would never be that it makes him different from the Batfam, it would be that it separates him from his community. That Gnomon’s actions made people distrust him, view him as a deceiver or liar!That would crush him, and complement the racial themes of his character really well imo, it’s messy and interesting! You could even have Duke confront Gnomon about this and have a discussion about race with an immortal being who could have a different perception of the topic. Like have Gnomon think it’s a good thing that people fear Duke and have Duke explain that even if he wanted to, that tactic wouldn’t work for a person like him. People *can’t* be scared of The Signal in the same way they can be scared of Batman or even Superman, and this is kinda explored in WAR (the whole arc not just the specific WAR comics) a little bit but again, missed opportunity to really get into all this interesting set up for Duke specifically

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