Trivia / Red Hood and the Outlaws

• Ascended Fanon: Arsenal calls Red Hood by his Fan Nickname "Jaybird." Red Hood is not pleased.
• Executive Veto: The first issue was going to feature Starfire in a semi-transparent bikini, but the editorial response was essentially a very blunt "No."
• Throw It In!: Issue #13 of the Rebirth series features some scenes in Bizarro's mind, and one of the panel descriptions called for Krypto to be "panting off to one side." However, artist Dexter Soy misread "panting" as "painting" and drew just that. Since the result was both comical and fit with the cartoony style of Bizarro's memories, it was kept.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Lobdell considered Gorilla Grodd and a few other unnamed "handful of characters" before being offered Blackfire and Steel. But then Geoff Johns himself sat Lobdell down and suggested Artemis and Bizarro, characters Lobdell had initially believed were out of reach.
  • Pete Woods went through many different ideas when designing Jason's appearance for the Outlaw era. Among them we have:
    • A design that had Jason wearing Roy's bloodied tunic.◊
    • Designs heavily reminiscent of his Arkham Knight iteration◊
    • Assassin's Creed-esque designs◊
    • Costumes that look like◊ Deathstroke ripoffs.
    • For Jason's new emblem, he also went through many iterations, Arkham Knight inspired ones, skullsand a particularly memorable that merged Jason's red bat with a red arrow as a means to honor Roy.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Scott Lobdell has admitted he doesn't like to plan stories too far ahead under the belief that since real life is unpredictable, his stories should be too.
  Lobdell: I've said in other interviews that I'm not a writer that likes to plan ahead. Because, really, there isn't a lot of planning ahead in life either — and if we want our characters to feel life-like, we have to be prepared for the curves that life throws at them.
  • In another interview:
  Scott Lobdell: I will say that, traditionally, in the past, readers of RHATO and Red Hood/Arsenal can notice where stories were set-up and set-up and set-up, only to have the conclusion of the story go careening off the tracks. I can say that there have been many times where I’ve started a story and someone from upstairs decreed that a particular plot thread had to be dropped, or a whole other plot thread needed to be added, or an entire story arc had to be gutted in the middle of the story. Those times have been very frustrating for me—but as a professional writer of some thirty years, I’ve always felt that part of the profession means that I need to turn in the story the editor/publisher wants and not always the story I want to write, or begin, or end.