Certified Dick Glazer™️

I get why. It’s sketchy at best and ugly at worst. But for Blüdhaven, and for this version of Dick, it just works so well.

There’s so much energy and motion in panels. I feel like energy in “prettier” styles is often sacrificed for aesthetics. Here, the angles, the impression of movement, even the contortion of facial features to express the emotion of the time, are everything. And it leads to so many fantastic flips:

And the lighting has to be some of my favorite, too. While, again, it’s sometimes a sore to stare at, it gets at the feeling of a firefight in ways I can’t describe. The flash of weapons isn’t exactly easy on the eyes, and trying to make everything “easy on the eyes” is what makes the comic world lose its edge. But I feel this:

The expression on Dick’s face, the slight fish eye, the hard-to-track lining due to the homogeneity of the coloration. It’s confusing, and dramatic, and active — all qualities a gun fight should have.

Other action shots are similar. Loud and chaotic and every piece of them doing something. There are items messily flying everywhere. There’s a weight to Dick, both in his getting dragged out of the room on the left and when he hits the ground on the right. It makes me feel the oof, you know?

I’m sorry, I just really like this vibe, and I don’t think it gets enough credit because it’s not the kind of thing you look at and go “ooh, pretty!”

He was, actually, very good at math.

He’s known for being an honor’s student, which is where the “good student in general” notion comes from.

And he tutored math for other college students, being known by students as the studious nerd archetype.

There are also so, so many jokes at Dick’s expense, or more neutral references, to him being smart/“high iq”/“boy brainy”/etc, especially in the Teen Titans (1966) series, but I’ll keep this narrowed to his knowledge of mathematics.

He heard the stutter and saw the face and decided this was going to be his hill.

To this one:

As far as I’m aware, yes. Discounting the things he did in his Robin years (he was a child counsellor at some point, I don’t remember when, just the issue itself), some of Dick’s jobs have included:

- A bartender

- A cop

- A gymnastics instructor

- A personal trainer

- A gym owner (I think you can delineate the two, but if you think they’re too similar you can just combine this with the previous)

- A museum curator

- A Spyral agent (he WAS paid for this, and also taught a PE class in their spy school outside of his spy work, so this could count as two separate jobs if you wanted)

And ESPECIALLY when your single ass has been pulling shit like this. Like come on man. You’re practically pulling from the sacred texts.

The performance

And the denial

And the harming perfectionism

BUT WHAT COMES AFTER???

ROY, THE MAN KNOWN FOR ENJOYING ALL THINGS FEMININE. ALL THINGS PRETTY, AS IT WERE.

ONLY JEALOUS IN HIS COMPETITION WITH DICK.

Dick, who is…

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*he a cop

**he a Titan

***he in Blüdhaven

****Contagion/Legacy

*****Cataclysm

******No Man’s Land

Of the five, Donna, Garth, and Wally have been married.

It’s pretty common knowledge that Dick was the one to give Donna away at hers:

But for Wally and Garth, judging by the fact that he’s standing in the position beside where the groom would be at the altar, he’s both Wally’s and Garth’s best man.