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I don't know the real birthday of Joker, and I think he also can't remember his birthday.

(If my writing is incomprehensible. I'm sorry for my English skills T^T💦)

An example of an existing tag is Comic: Batgirl Vol. 1 (2000). I also recommend checking out the Comic: Batman Vol. 1 (1940) tag page to see examples of how to tag specific issues and arcs.

Most comics already have a canonical tag but there are notable comics that do not. For example, Birds of Prey Vol. 1 (1999) is not an existing tag. Neither is Superman Vol. 2 (1987). Batman Vol. 4 (2025) has not been used and it's currently set up as Batman (2025) with no issues wrangled under it yet and it is really pissing me off.

Ok I didn’t really think that much about it at first but. Reminder that it is extremely bad behavior for a working professional to go find a random person on a random forum and blast them to 37k followers by deleting his Twitter for an hour, which was clearly done to get attention and make everyone beg him to come back. He pinned their username to his page! This forum person didn’t even tag him in anyway! Fans are under no obligation to like anyone’s art, and they weren’t even being particularly mean! It’s pathetic.

Huevember - Day 13

So here's Saturn Girl, she comes from the future AND another planet just to serve?

thank you! i really appreciate this ask! what you said about the New 52's impact touched on a few things i've been thinking a lot about. i've noticed that the New 52 seems to have impact the development of bat fanon in two different ways.

the first way is like you said: a lot of bat fanon seems to be stuck in a post-crisis, post-canon timeline. for example, characters often have their late post-crisis mantles—tim is red robin, cass is black bat (and in hong kong), damian is newly robin, jason is red hood but on the outs with the bat family, etc.

in fact, as i started to look at older fan works i've noticed that a lot of authors specifically referred to their works as being a continuation of post-crisis, or as taking place the "preboot" universe, but "being a few years later," etc.

the second way is that a lot of fanon seems to come from nu52 comics themselves. for example, jason being "tim's robin" is a BIG thing in batman fanon. now, anyone who has read tim's post-crisis origin story & comics will tell you that dick grayson was his inspiration & they had a very close brotherly relationship!! However, tim's nu52 origin gives a different impression.

for example, in Secret Origins (2014) #3 there's a scene where tim talks to jason's portrait and says that he wants to "make [jason] proud."

in Teen Titans (2011) #16, we have tim says that jason is the closest thing he has to a brother.

so naturally, people started to produce fanworks that showed tim & jason being a lot closer. and we can't really call that dynamic "fanon" because that was the canon during that time.

what i think we started to see in the creation of batman fanon during the 2010s is a mashup of post-flashpoint comics and post-crisis continuity. this is how we get stories where tim is living next to wayne manor (post-crisis), but he idolizes jason (nu52). we get stories where cass is called black bat (end of post-crisis), but she wants to perform ballet (rebirth).

and it really comes back to the patchwork fics concept i was talking about, but this time with different comic continuities rather than adaptations. the conflict here is that a lot of post-crisis & post-flashpoint comics are really contradictory!! tim drake was straight up a different guy. so was cass! when you try to meld who they were during post-crisis and who they were in the nu52 or rebirth it gets really discordant. and you end up with a fanon character that is sometimes unrecognizable.