Certified Dick Glazer™️

Dick’s reaction to flyers about Bruce getting married is to gasp like he’s being fucking stabbed.

And then the car chase????

“We’ve been reprieved—by another female!”??????

By another female, you say? ANOTHER FEMOID DEIGNS TO INTERRUPT THEM?

AND WHEN THEY FINALLY FUCKING ESCAPE

“<sigh> y’know, we managed to escape all those ~femmes~ <shudder>, back to crime fighting with just the two of us. Just The Boys™️.”

Dick was doomed from the start. It was so over.

Believe me, this is some of the most gorgeous artwork Nightwing has had… ever, and the sheer aura of the environments when paired with the grungy colorization is peak.

Dick made Bruce ultra hyper paranoid about the identity. You heard it here folks. I take no further argument.

They fed each other’s freak, I swear to god. Bruce would not have made it out of the 60s alive without Dick and this is a fact.

You gonna read the newest New Titans and Absolute Batman issues too?

Maybe New Titans will actually some good Dick stuff this time. Don’t have major hopes, but I still hope fit more good Titans and Dick Titans stuff still.

And maybe Absolute Batman (from what I have seen I think maybe it did?) will actually give us more Robins and Dick content this time(s).

Yes, I am still annoyed barely getting any Robins and Dick content last time. Even if the issue was still good, I not like getting baited for more Robins and Dick content, only to get like 1-3 or so with them. I do not like that; feel tricked. I know it was done for marketing reasons, doesn’t mean I can’t still hate it and think it was false advertising.

Anyways, hoping that the Robins and Dick actually do get more stuff in Absolute Batman that it is good. I gut my worries for them in Absolute Batman still, but I also want more stuff with Dick and the Robins in AB.

Also, people are theorizing Robin(s) are gonna die in Absolute Batman, and all I will say to this, is that I am gonna be very unhappy if either Dick (very tired of Dick getting killed off or almost killed off in stuff. Also just love him.( or Steph gets killed off (Steph just deserves more. Just love her too).

I’m actually still up right now just so I can catch the newest New Titans issue.

I have to stay up because, if I’m being honest, I’m pirating that shit. I’ll pay for Nightwing. I’ll pay for Batman. I’ll pay for Detective Comics, and I even paid for Titans until semi-recently. I refuse to pay for the current run with the quality the last few issues have shown. My policy is that if I’m surprised by the quality of a new issue, I go back and retroactively purchase it, and I purchase all the runs I’ve been having a good time with. Thus far New Titans has neither been consistently good enough to warrant pre-reading purchases nor surprising enough to warrant retroactive purchase. Hence, waiting for batcave to upload their scan lol.

My hope for the new issue is lost, but I think it’ll be hilarious to compare this Nightwing to the Nightwing we saw in the newest solo issue. As the characters continue to diverge, I’m finding more and more ironic enjoyment out of his Titans/New Titans appearances idk.

As for the Absolute line, we might get more of the Robins and Dick specifically, especially seeing as Barbara is becoming more relevant. Not to make everything with Barbara about Dick, but the two often go hand-in-hand.

I’m hopeful they won’t kill Dick off, since Dick is Scott Snyder’s favorite Robin. He’s said so on other media platforms iirc. That said, it would be very funny to continue the trend of killing Dick off in relevant Elseworlds. Injustice, anyone? And I think that DC Zombies story? Idk. Make him the Absolute Deadman at the very least if we’re going this route, though. (I doubt Scott will. The mechas are too neat to only deploy a few times. Hell, the popularity of the Robins alone would probably have editorial breathing down his neck were he to kill them off, just through sheer loss of cover sales.)

because I’m killing myself right after this.

What the actually fuck. oh my god. holy smokes.

Please don’t take any history lessons from me, because I’m the furthest from educated about any of it, but it’s understandable that the cultural zeitgeist of the United States is a bit more critical of policing as an institution. Historically, police have been used as a vector by the state to oppress, from Jim Crow era policies to the War on Drugs.

There’s also their general role of aggressors or limiters during protest, which Americans find irritating both on principle and because of our specific enshrined right to protest. And, because of the prevalence of police unions — funnily enough, one of the very few groups of workers to still have union-style protections — police are given a unique opportunity to abuse their authority without the worry of facing consequences. Hence, a lot of talk about police brutality. This doesn’t make every police officer in the United States evil either. There are plenty of individual Good Boys who genuinely wish to improve their community. But as an institution, the US police force is fundamentally flawed.

THAT SAID.

I think the problem is simply that, in comic books, we rely on suspending disbelief regarding this abuse of power (barring, of course, comic books aiming to critique the concept). Jim Gordon wouldn’t pull this shit because he’s Jim Gordon. He’s our protagonist. He’s not a corrupt cop.

Likewise, during Dick’s tenure as a cop, he was specifically aiming to take down police corruption in ways that would otherwise be prevented by the “thin blue line”, or the union, or whomever else. He was directly targeting what makes American policing so inherently dysfunctional.

It’s not like comic books neglect problems with American policing. Quite the opposite. EVERY TIME the police are relevant, there’s usually some critical commentary included. The very run where Dick was a cop included this commentary, the Tom Taylor run, the earlier arc of Dan Watters’ run, the current run of Batman (and, quite frankly, every other modern run of Batman to some extent). And wouldn’t you know it, Dick was opposed to police violence every time. Bruce was. Tim was. Everyone is.

But our heroes are not included in this corruption for the same reason we do not critique our heroes for being vigilantes. In real life, I would be wildly opposed for vigilantism. Let’s see: unmitigated power, license for violence without checks or balances, lack of accountability. All of these sound like the problems we historically have with police on steroids. And yet, no one calls out Bruce for being Batman, or whoever is currently Robin for being Robin, because the conceit is that OUR PROTAGONISTS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM (usually). We see inside their heads, we know they’re acting in the best interest of society, we know they aren’t corrupt or oppressive. And, as fiction, we are somewhat required to put away our reservation about unjust power imbalance and whatnot because… well… funnie story haha.