#competent dick

Love how dick didn’t even come there to do this. It was just a stop along the way.

I fear Dick from pre-crisis/ the older, competent Dick just isnt coming back (except for Future State. That, that I respect)

As much as I would enjoy more panels with man-bun Dick, I feel the same way in terms of not caring all that much to read an issue that I can already tell is going to either be OOC or just makes all the Robins into flat characters. 

That’s a fear of mine as well. So far we have the writers who don’t understand the assignment in Rebirth:

Seeley, Percy, King, Lobdell, Jurgens (eh maybe I’ll cut him a little slack), Taylor (to some extent, we shall see), and Sheridan. I can’t believe I kinda want to put fuckin Tomasi here as well but it doesn’t seem totally fair since his issues in Detective Comics weren’t focused on Dick. (Also, yes, there are good moments throughout these writer’s works but there’s also much to be desired in certain areas).

Now let’s compare that to the few writers who do understand the assignment:

Constant, Williamson, and Humphries. 

Dick beats Paragon

Dick drags a suspect screaming through the streets and threatens to drop him in the middle of traffic

Man was literally tortured and didn’t say shit about anything

For a long time I thought Robin was his son, but now I know he was…chosen.

I don’t know much about their history except for what’s already passed into legend; Batman and Robin, the dynamic duo—mentor and sidekick—family by choice if not blood.

I’ve never caught his civilian name, but I do know that the first Robin has been heroing since he was a little kid—and that he’s friends with almost everyone in the superhero community.

I also know that even though things must have been rough between him and Batman sometimes, he’s wicked loyal…even now, even though he wears a different costume and answers to the name “Nightwing.”