So there are obviously much more pressing thoughts I have about Barbara Gordon: Breakout and the story it is telling about Barbara, but I’ll hold off on that for a few days to prevent too immediate of spoilers.
Until then, on a goofier note, seeing how Dick is depicted in outside media versus his own comics is always the funniest shit to me omg
Like he’s so cute here. He has been having a weeks-long breakdown in Nightwing. He lays on the floor and self-flaggelates for his perceived failures for a few days and then someone calls him out to help and he’s like “okie :D”
And it’s not like this is some unprecedented mis characterization by BG: Breakout; every series does this. I dunno what to tell you.
If it were just one cameo that did this, the argument could be that the author just doesn’t know what’s happening in Nightwing. But I refuse to believe that at this point. Meaning either:
1) This is an editorial mandate to have Dick adhere to his more well-known persona when popping up elsewhere, and that “well-known persona” is Good Boy McGee.
2) This is some kind of 4D chess commentary on Dick’s ability to act and his martyrdom when it comes to the people he loves, choosing repeatedly to present a facade of fine-ness so as not to worry them, or because he doesn’t think he deserves to be worried over.
Like I see Dick being a goofy goober in these panels with the context of the Nightwing comics and I think
Realistically, do I think it's the comics not being coordinated due to lack of communication or long production of separate runs? Yeah.
Does it still work as consistent characterization? Also yeah.
Batman and Robin: Year One #9
