KNMI hates Batman

(Batman vol1 #415, 1988)

Which had already been established earlier in the same issue as a super-concentrated version:

(disclosure: I did crop out Jason's inner monologue here, just to keep the focus on Crane expositioning the gas)

Sure, the writer(s) tried to establish that it's okay because they are the worst, most evil villains, but:

That still has to fall under "cruel and unusual punishment"

They don't actually know what was included in the gas - he's just assuming it's a nonlethal hallucinogen

There are visibly at least two guards in that scene who would also end up dosed

There are more inmates shown than villains listed, so is DC taking the stance that non-supervillain criminals also deserve torture? Given this is nominally a psychiatric institute, so some of them must be there due to mental illness.

And I'm not even going to try to address the fact that Batman and Robin aren't wearing breathing protection 🙄🤦

omg you're so sweet! It warms my heart that someone thinks of me even when I haven't been posting.

I guess for all the justified criticism on how comic women are drawn, at least some artists are being equal opportunity??

I don't know the tumblr etiquette for this, and have never posted about a non-Batman fandom, but hopefully someone knows this fic.

Time travel fix-it

Wangxian

They go to Cloud Recesses and literally fly away carrying LWJ's mom's house???

It turns out when I am so miserable at my job, it saps any energy for creative hobbies. It's not even physically tiring, I just end the day so mentally exhausted and disillusioned that I spend all my free time just reading fic or watching other people play video games.

But don't worry - I am summoning the energy for job searching and also seriously considering whether I'd just be happier unemployed.

Batman #409

if this comic was published in July 1987, do we interpret "last February" as Catherine died 5 months ago, or a year and 5 months?

So Jason Todd's (non-circus) origin story includes Catherine dying of an overdose:

Remember how in Tim's first appearance he told Dick he ought to pay Bruce back for raising him?

(The New Titans #60, 1989)

While the actual explanation is that DC chronically attracts writers with a hard on for bad parenting, I'm divided on how to interpret this in-universe.

He could make his name killing the worst of the named villains (Joker, maybe Professor Pyg if we ignore continuity) then become the Batman with less collateral damage (look he isn't shown being any less violent than Bruce, because DC writers believe might makes right when it comes to beating petty criminals to death, but I refuse to believe Jason "stealing tires from Batman to survive" Todd would not have more sympathy for thieves). Imagine a Batman who takes down violent criminals like rapists and killers but just stops the thieves and muggers like "bruh, don't rob these guys, I know someone with so much hereditary privilege and antique silver."

If Jason died in 1988 and was dead/catatonic/training as an assassin for 3 years, he might have missed such cultural touchstones as:

the sequels to Terminator and Back to the Future (1991 and 1989)

Disney's Little Mermaid (1989)

the very first nintendo gameboy (while this one was before my time, my sister had the color and I had the advance, you young'uns are spoiled with your backlit displays)

If he came back in 2005 and missed the 3-ish years before, he might have missed:

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) (was this the source or a symptom of the pirate craze?)

The fast and furious sequel(s)

Rosie O'Donnell comes out

The Osbournes reality TV

low rise jeans, according to Buzzfeed (look I lived through the early 00s, I'm biased)