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Tweak says, "Wizwit!"

mysteryfan (mysteryfan) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-01 17:24:00

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char: batman/dick grayson, char: robin/damian wayne, creator: grant morrison, creator: jonathan glapion, creator: philip tan, genre: previews, title: batman and robin

Big (?) Spoiler: Batman and Robin #5

Preview up at ign: http://comics.ign.com/articles/103/1030612p1.html

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ladymirth
2009-10-02 01:49 pm UTC (link)

1. Sick of innocent people hurt by psychopaths.
2. Motivated by his anger and grief at his own history.
3. Unable to rationally consider ideas such as "guns are the symptom, not the cause/guns may not provide the ultimate solution", "some people cannot be saved/ you can't just go around treating crime like a termite problem" and "sometimes you have to let other people in/ you cannot force your way into another person's trust".

Conclusion: Jason is exactly what Bruce would have become if his parents had been less moral, if he had been less sheltered from the world's vagaries after that first tragedy by his social status and Alfred, if his substitute father figure had loved him less and let him down, if the one living member of his family had sold him out to the Joker at the peak of his adolescence who then proceeded to torture him to death and if he had had to dig his way out of his own grave to find that he had been almost casually replaced. Jason Todd, in effect, personifies Bruce's "road not taken".

I for one, would be thrilled if he were allowed to stay around as DC's version of Punisher. They need more greys in their monochromatic morality scheme.

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sistermagpie
2009-10-02 04:11 pm UTC (link)

I'd love it if they'd play exactly that kind of disturbing connection stuff too. I mean, with Bruce and Jason. He's not just some guy with a competing idea about criminals, he's a kid that Bruce impulsively took in, lost, mourned, and now...what? It's like they just don't take advantage of that hugely dramatic history. Nowadays it seems like the family member who relates to him most often is Tim, and that's almost because they didn't know each other when he was alive before.

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