fraction’s batman was always unimaginative at best but it feels particularly sinister to tear down the character of a brown woman (who’s one of the strongest and genuine love interests of bruce) in favour of the new white love interest, completely just making shit up to paint her as an unfeeling seductress AGAIN while insulting her culture for no added plot value all at the same time. how the hell do you even manage that in one single page

saying that talia ran away after dropping damian in his lap LAUGHING and that bruce was unwilling the whole time (grown man mind you) had to fix the ticking time bomb that is his mixed race child because he grew up with her cultural traditions instead of his own and that the new white love interest is needed here more than his own mother. who are these people WHERE AM I

“all steeped in her unorthodox cultural traditions” “-to figure out how to both dismantle that time bomb..”you don’t even need to be that smart to understand that this is plain racism and yet somehow the same fans who talk a whole bunch about how they care about talia and damian will still go out of their way to support the current batman run like its not actual garbage that was written by someone who should have been out of a job a loongg time ago

“Time bomb I had to dismantle”. this is a kind of racism that it’s just creepy. Like of course Damian had to be molded, corrected “made safe” by his white father all because of his “unorthodox cultural traditions” inculcated by his mother. fuck fraction

fraction having bruce trash talk talia when their most recent interactions were them kissing in hush2 and fucking in ram v’s tec run… yeah i’m sure that’s what he thinks of her. totally.

and more on that! another reason why i hate the inconsistent writing when it comes to talia (besides the obvious) is that bruce is constantly oscillating between shit talking talia and having romantic encounters with her. it feels so humiliating and so disrespectful to her character. even when ppl like ram v actually write her well it’s hard to overlook the fact that she’s back with the man who will turn around and complain to his girlfriend of the month about his baby mama that dumped a child at his doorstep. i would rather she never be with bruce again than keep seeing this happen.

“unorthodox cultural practices” with a panel of her wearing a qipao next to it. what.