Batman General Discussion

Sadly those jokes are made at Roy

That's about as disappointing as the lack of "Red Robin! Yum!" for Tim.

I hate that no one has ever called him that, AFAIK. I'd even settle for something like "Burger Boy".

Youtuber, Evan Geary explains why real life psychiatrists wouldn't classify the Joker as a "psycopath".

Edited by windleopard on Nov 4th 2018 at 9:42:00 AM

Sean Gordon Murphy talking about Jason in the White Knight verse.

Apparently it'll be revealed in next week's issue of Action Comics that Talia is dating Jimmy Olsen

Man, they really haven’t had a clue what to do with Talia since Damian was born, huh?

I don't think they ever had a clue what to do with her. I mean, did she ever have anything going for her besides being the other villainess Batman was attracted to?

She had some stuff with her father. Agreeing in his cause, but not his means, and being torn on what to do. She has potential, but they just keep fumbling around with her.

It felt like she mostly paid lip service to being against her father's methods. She still kept going back to him over her "beloved". You're either with someone or against them.

Apparently Tom King was planning to make Tim Drake as the new Nightwing After Dick got shot, But with Bendis having creative control on Young Justice next year pretty much drop the plans and a reason why Dick got replaced by Kyle Rayner on Titans.

In my opinion a Tim Drake becoming Nightwing is great idea on paper but the fact i'm not happy with King with his handling Batman #50 and Heroes In Crisis in general

And also the recent Bat Family books are not longer that exiting due by Scott Lobdell writting Nightwing by bringing Joker's Daughter and continue the storyline since Eric M. Esquivel was originally going the new writter before his allegations which proff has no idea what to do with the character and A-List writter are willing to take it.

Oh a they're trying make Selina a Mob Boss again which is a terrible decision since another cat burglar from another got same treatment.

...does anyone in the Batfamily ever consider just signing up to be a cop/detective/corporate leader (yes, sign up to run the Red Cross) instead of swapping between the supplementary Bat-family roles?

Gotham needs a "Batman or a Batwoman" sure, but I don't feel like it needs 3-4 Robins, 2 Batgirl's, a Bluebird, and whatever Duke currently is. And not that I've been reading them but I don't imagine the comics focus on Nightwing taking care of Bludhaven anymore.

The idea of there being multiple Robins' made sense to me as Batman needed a partner/something to help his loneliness. But someone else taking up the mantle of Nightwing? Is that really a necessary role? Or am I just underestimating how iconic Nightwing really is?

Edited by Soble on Dec 30th 2018 at 9:16:47 AM

Nightwing is generally the Batman of Bludhaven. I dunno if Lobdell still has him there, but he was still in Bludhaven during Sam Humphries’ run.

Aside from that, Bluebird has been retired since around 2015/2016, Spoiler is who knows where. Duke (The Signal) is supposed to be a daytime hero, and besides that, he and Cass are joining The Outsiders, which is more of a global team.

Hell, Bruce actually doesn’t have a partner right now, unless you count Cass and Duke. Tim and Steph left, Dick and Jason and Babs are independent, and Damian is off on his own now too.

Ric's still in Bludhaven... its protected by the Nightwing Squad

Dick was a Bludhaven cop during Devin Grayson's run on Nightwing. That ended following Bludhaven's destruction.

Edited by windleopard on Dec 30th 2018 at 9:52:17 AM

and then the blud was brought back in new52 and dick moved there during rebirth era.

but as of right now, ric is in bludhaven doing vigilante stuff through muscle memory, jason is off fighting some evil underground group selling weapons, tim is gonna join the young justice, steph was last seen with tim to try and find out about the conner future tim mentioned, both outside of gotham. duke and cass were gonna join the outsiders, and harper was retired, barbara is in burnside a small part of gotham, damian is in teen titans, and Kate goes around a lot, I think her books have her more out of gotham than in.

There's a "Nightwing Squad?"

a bunch of cops found one of ric's old hideouts after he torched it because he doesnt want to deal with his past anymore. so they took 4 old costumes and are trying to stop crime as nightwing.

I haven't read anything after Snyder's New 52 run yet, but I'm thrilled to hear Bluebird was retired. Harper always felt to me like a writer's pet character who kept hogging screen time from everyone else.

Oh, and thinking about Snyder's run reminded me of something: that over dramatic origin story he gave Gordon's trench coat in Zero Year was one of the most unintentionally funny things I've read in modern comics. It's almost as funny as how X-Men: Apocalypse turned out to be a two and half hour origin story for Xavier's bald head.

Harper has been a lot better outside of Snyder’s hands. She works better as a civilian supporting character, as Stephanie and Cassandra’s friend, than as a superhero.

So according to issue 2 of Old Lady Harley, Dick and Harley were married at one point.

And here we were, assuming she would tie the knot with Bruce; and their marriage would be the final joke, inciting the Joker to finally punch his own ticket. Or at least, I have been.

She always felt like a diet version of best Bat girl (same with the current version of Barbara Gordon) in m opinion

Must be canon with Batman & Harley Quinn, then.

We might be getting a Court of Owls game.