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batman/superman worlds finest is my all time favourite dick as robin writing and you cannot change my mind
he’s batmans sidekick but also more than that at the same time
he’s not a sweet and innocent child but he’s also not the feral angry robin
he’s just… him
#batman/superman worlds finest is such a good comic#mark waid ty for giving us this#same goes for worlds finest teen titans bc it was also written by mark and it very nicely deals with dicks internal struggle with#being batmans sidekick AND leading this team AND wanting friends and it’s just GAH i love it#AND bruce isn’t an asshole to him whilst not being a smushy father and it’s literally how their relationship should be#dick grayson#dick grayson robin#worlds finest#batman/superman#batman#batman/superman worlds finest
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Ok so one more thing before I go.
Do you remember when I said Bruce’s plan was his faith in Clark?
GUESS WHAT CLARK’S PLAN WAS?!
My god these two are just so much. I never even noticed this parallel until I was doing this happy rang series my god. I love studying writing stuff.
#batman#bruce wayne#Superman#clark kent#dc comics#dc#dcu#world’s finest#their faith in one another#that was so good!!!#i love world’s finest
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stupid headcannon that on Krypton they kept leathery winged creatures as pets so when Superman first meets Batman he’s immediately aweing all over him and messing with his cape and pointy ears
and then he’s introduced to the concept of furries and immediately bombards Batman w/questions about it
#batman#Superman#superbats#the age old question of is batman a furry#superman is a good guy#just a little confused#himbo superman is so silly to me#dc comics#dc#comics#head canon#batfamily#batfam#superman and batman#world’s finest
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Earth-22 Alan Scott in an unlettered preview for Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022 )#24. Art by Dan Mora.
#alan scott#green lantern#kingdom come#batman/superman: world's finest#batman/superman: world's finest 2022#earth-22#dan mora#mark waid#dc#dc comics#dcedit#comicedit#comicsedit#u can reblog#dying at the second panel#not a good sign: green lantern is hauling ass
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can someone tell me why im being abnormal about a character i've barely touched the content of. like yay yippie i watched like 20 hours of you. there's fucking 80 years of content get me OUT OF HERE?
#yeah this is about nightwing. yes im a freak about him no i don't do well with comics#shout out to duke thomas in the we are robin comic i've had in my browser tabs for three weeks now#sorry king.#i mean i guess it makes sense because theres So many characters in media that you can't even get 20 hours out of . but. BUT ITS NOT FAIR.#i want to read comics so bad. i try to. i have. i've started several#blue beetle 2009 nightwing 2016... superman & batman world's finest#i was able to finish teen titans world's finest but that was only. like. six issues#comics as a medium just has this thing where. you're dropped in and it kinda expects you to know what's happening#and leaves you feeling like you started on the wrong page. like blue beetle. loved you but man that was not the greatest first comic to rea#wait i forgot i read hawkeye 2011(?) and that also had the same issue. but more so each installment like#felt like it was starting on a point AFTER something happened like i was meant to be reading another comic before i got to that issue.#i got. like. idk 18? 19? comics into that one. and 12 into nightwing. nightwing wasn't as bad but it just. gah. like several-issue long#stories carried across batman and nightwing and its like.OUGH.#i know im mutuals with a comic person. hi. i know you're cringing.#there are so many good characters to come out of comics. its just SO HARD to get into.#rn i dont have an excuse with We Are Robin. just that i've been infected with needing to play the sims for 8 hours a day.#mika-posts
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News that’s good, news that’s bad.
(Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #20)
#batman/superman: world's finest#the flash#barry allen#good news#bad news#kingdom come#heir to the kingdom#multiverse#earth 22#mark waid#dan mora#dc comics#comics#2020s comics
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No thoughts, just people being creature
#sad there wasn’t any good power girl content for this :(#dc liveblog#from worlds’ finest (2012) and associated tie ins#dc comics#batman#superman#clark kent#bruce wayne#helena wayne#huntress#kara zor el#karen starr#power girl
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of course bruce “med school drop-out” wayne knows how many miles of veins and arteries are in the body
#batman/superman: world's finest#batman#superman#batfam#dc#con reads comics#conpost#i know i diss rebirth constantly but. sometimes. the comics are good actually
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i want to read batman comics but i’m scared
#💭#scared of bad writing mainly#and being confused#i’m always like i luv batman so much but i have yet to read a comic thays about him#like i read worlds finest but like that also has superman and dick so idk#this is gonna sound soo juvenile but i want good plot good writing but also like i want a little silliness a little batman heart#i want some real brucie wayne in there too and some good feels#i guess#idk !#i found some recs on twt so i’ll prob start there if anything
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Really love any comic panels of flying superheroes carrying non-flying superheroes.
Superman carrying Batman is always good, but I'm a big fan of this panel of Supergirl carrying Robin from the first volume of World's Finest.
In part because Supergirl spends a lot of this comic carrying Robin around and they're both pissed about it, but also because WHAT is she holding on to? Like, one can assume that she's maybe just holding on to the back of his costume, but with the way the cape and the back of his costume is drawn, it really doesn't seem like she's grasping onto the fabric there.
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What are some of your favorite Dick Grayson moments?
Please and Thank You 😃
My favorites will always be Dick being the canonical center of the DC universe 😌
Dark Crisis Issue #1
The greatest hope and the leader of the ages
Nightwing (2016) Issue #49
The Brave and Bold (2007) Issue #15
"And no one doubts that you're the best one to strategize a counterattack."
"Next to Superman, Dick Grayson is the one guy alive that every other crimefighter trusts."
JLA/Titans Issue #2
"--Founders of the original Teen Titans--"
Titans (2003) Issue #23
"It's a natural thing when Nightwing shows up. None of us are conscious of it, really--but we all look to him for orders."
Nightwing (2016) Issue #9
"You vouching for someone is worth its weight in gold. It was true in my world, and it's true in this one. In fact, of everyone I've met here, you're the least changed from the version I knew. Always confident, always kind, always cool. Dick Grayson--the multiuniversal constant."
JLA (1997) Issue #73
"It was sad at first. We were discussing the work--this work...and I asked him if he ever felt pride."
"He didn't....then he stopped for a second and said...'The only time I ever feel pride is when I look at Nightwing. Sometimes I think he's the only thing I ever did right.'"
Batman: Urban Legends Issue #22
"We have a shorthand I don't share with any of the others, save for maybe Alfred. He's always been the one keeping me centered. Grounded."
"Dick's the beating heart of this family we've created, whether he realizes it or not."
Titans (2003) Issue #6
JLA (1997) Issue #71
Nemesis - The Impostors Issue #3
Batman!Dick - he's so freaking cool!!!
He's so amazing and cool and extraordinary and over competent. He's what everyone looks up to. He's collectively placed on a pedal so high by every hero and anti-hero in that everyone wants to be him or be acknowledged by him. People have died in his footsteps. Even the Titans, his own friends, hero-worship, look up to him as the peak of excellence and goodness.
Justice League of America (2006) Issue #50
Roy
World's Finest: Teen Titans Issue #5
Titans (2016) Annual 1
The paragon of rightness and justice of the world - Superman - thinks dick is the best thing to ever come into existence.
Whenever you read a comic, there's always some character that goes "Nightwing!" when something happens and another responds "Dude, he's Nightwing. He'll be fine. He always is." That's the amount of confidence heroes have in him to always succeed and excel.
Like Kon said - when he shows up, people automatically fall in line. It's like second-nature to just follow him.
Dick has that Charisma, the leadership, and the strength to hold the entire community together and as a result the world. He's proven it, he's done it. Whenever the Justice League evaporates in any situation - because this isn't the first time the JL have died/gone missing - everyone turns to Nightwing for order and direction.
Truly, he's the greatest.
#dick grayson#nightwing#bruce wayne#batman#clark kent#superman#diana prince#wonder woman#oliver queen#green arrow#justice league#batfam#titans#titans as family#batfamily#cl confusedhummingbird asks#cl asks#thanks for the ask!
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Hi! Just curious, what are your favorite comic runs? I've finished the comics on my current to-read list so I love hearing what other people like!
hello! as always i’m sure i’m forgetting plenty of stuff but these are some of my favs, both completed and ongoing series.
completed:
batman: the knight (2022)
miniseries, 10 issues total, so it’s extremely readable and really satisfying in a short amount of time! i like zdarsky’s bruce a lot (i’ve also enjoyed his work on the current batman run) and carmine di giandomenico’s art is fantastic. also, it’s the ghost-maker origin story and bruce & khoa somehow get divorced at least twice before the story’s over. love that for them.
superman: american alien (2015)
anthology collection about clark kent through the years, a really great read for superman—digging into clark’s character rather than focusing on external plot!—with some great cameos too (like young adult clark getting mistaken for some rich guy named bruce wayne at a yacht party, or reporter clark running into pre-robin dick grayson).
future state (2021) batman: dark detective
i am not immune to dan mora’s bruce wayne, especially when he is skrunkly and beat up the whole time.
batman: urban legends (2021)
an anthology so you can kind of pick up/put down as you like! these are a good read if you don’t want to be tracking huge overarching plotlines for a bit. the first few issues have a great jason series too.
ongoing series aka my current pulls at the comic shop:
spirit world (2023)
this one is new and is SO fun and compelling; i love xanthe already, and the assorted cast (including constantine and cass!) and new side characters (bowen my beloved, i’d die for you if you weren’t already dead) are delightful. one of those comics where i’m genuinely interested in the plot too and not just reading for my favs. alyssa wong is doing some really cool things with this concept/cast and i hope they have a chance to do way more in this world.
batman/superman world’s finest (2022)
again, i am not immune to dan mora, or the delightful superbat of it all. (and robin!dick! i love him.) i also started reading waid’s teen titans spin-off that takes place in this same era and there are only a few issues out so far but i’m having a great time.
city boy (2023)
i am OBSESSED with this concept (sentient cities! sharp-edged/lonely character figuring out his connection to them!) and the writing is super fun so far. also the intro comic (free on kindle/elsewhere; also has a free spirit world issue) has a great nightwing run-in.
i’m also subscribed to nightwing, superboy: the man of tomorrow, action comics (anything with kon crumbs…), and dark knights of steel (listen…i am still holding out hope for more royal court spy!tim crumbs), and i don’t know much about shazam yet but i’m giving the new series a try too.
#hope there’s something here for your reading list!#asks#comics#batman#superman#spirit world#city boy
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Ok one more then I have to drive.
I’ve skipped ahead quite a bit but here is Hal Jordan and Alfred being mind controlled.
This art is just absolutely gorgeous
(Also help, help me why is…)
What I love most about these two pages is the lighting. God the way the light just flies off Hal’s ring just looks so beautiful. How the green light reflects off of each character. How the bat computer’s light illuminates Alfred and Nezha in a sinister way. Just gorgeous.
I love these artists!!
#batman#bruce wayne#clark kent#superman#hal jordan#green lantern#alfred pennyworth#world’s finest#dc comics#dc#dcu#dan mora#Dan mora is so good!!!
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I just had the idea of a comic where batman is investigating the joker cause he was quiet for a while and batsy is ~suspicious~ and when he finds him it looks like uho! The joker is dead! But how could it be? Ensue a very serious investigation by batman with an add of tragic obsessive homoerotic undertones!
Meanwhile joker wakes up in hell (bcs ofc he does, hell is fucking canon in the dcu) and suprise! He actually wasn't killed in any epic way, just fucking, idk slipped on a banana peel and died. So joker is like "Nah fuck this. The only acceptable death is to die by my Batsy's hands." And proceeds to just, try to fucking get out of hell (and let him have fun while he's at it).
I kinda want john Constantine to make a cameo bcs I love him
Oh and I want it to be played like a black comedy
This would be a good companion story to Batman: Damned, only it's Joker we follow and it's funny and it's actually good. (And I guess instead of having full frontal nudity that later gets censored, there could first be censored nudity and then in reprints SURPRISE NAKED JOKER.)
But seriously, this is such a great idea that would work perfectly fine in an official comic. We need more Joker hijinks! Nowadays they still seem to happen mostly in comics that are their own universe (eg, One Operation Joker) or in, like, peripheral comics where maybe it's canon or maybe it isn't (eg, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #25). Whereas in the main storyline in Batman, we've got Joker pulled into grim backup personality nonsense with bonus AI art accusations.
We must end the god-mode brilliant Joker era and return to chaotic idiot Joker. It would be fantastic to see him get himself killed in the stupidest way possible, in a huge blow to his ego. The way he's able to fight his way out of hell should be stupid too, not the usual "oh he's impervious because he's the Joker and figured out a way." I was talking to @distort-opia about this, and she had the idea that it should be because Joker's name is already in the book of the dead because he died temporarily in the acid vat, and I said what if it's because he temporarily died so many times that an overworked afterlife auditor just figured he has to be dead and stamped it in. So thanks to bureaucratic confusion, Joker gets to run around looking for a second loophole that gets him back to the land of the living. And yeah, maybe he's just so obnoxious that someone calls Constantine like, "Please get this guy the fuck out of here."
Wait, oh my god. Joker is insistently pleading (haranguing) his case to everyone, going on and on about how Batman created him and they're inextricably linked, and therefore dying at Batman's hand has to be his only possible demise. And at the end, some weary afterlife Account Manager asks, "Okay, then how has this apparently amazing fighter and strategist managed to not kill you before?"
Joker's like, "Oh, that's the best part of our connection. He thinks he has a philosophical and moral obligation to never kill me. Once I'm out of here, who knows when you'd see me again!"
The Account Manager responds, "I see."
A few minutes later the Curses Department is processing a form that says Joker can literally only die if Batman kills him.
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There are some things in DC's voluminous back catalog that they ought to properly reprint because they're good — gems of past eras. However, there are also some things they ought to properly reprint because they're delightfully stupid, like the Superman/Batman team-ups from WORLD'S FINEST COMICS. DC has actually reprinted all the stories from the '50s, through about 1961, but a lot of the '60s material has only been reprinted in the B&W SHOWCASE PRESENTS books, which is a shame.
The WORLD'S FINEST team-ups went through several distinct phases. Superman, Batman, and Robin had shared the covers of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS since 1941, but it wasn't until 1954 that shrinking page counts obliged them to actually share the lead feature. The '50s stories are pretty good of their time, with some lovely Dick Sprang art, and the presence of Superman meant the drift into science fiction was less jarring than in the contemporary Batman books. In 1964, editorial control of WORLD'S FINEST passed to Mort Weisinger and it became a Weisinger-era Superman book that happened to have Batman and Robin in it. Starting in 1967, though, things started to get stranger and stranger as Weisinger's stable of sci-fi veterans like Edmond Hamilton and Otto Binder gave way to Bob Kanigher, Cary Bates, and Bob Haney, who turned out some exceedingly weird material. Stories like the two-parter about Superman having died and willed his super-organs to various people (#189–190) aren't quite as ghoulish as the covers suggest, but their inexplicable weirdness is emblematic of the period.
For a little while in the early '70s, DC evicted Batman from the series, making WORLD'S FINEST a general-issue Superman team-up book. (DC reprinted those issues in trade paperback in 2020.) This apparently wasn't a big commercial success, but rather than immediately returning to the expected Superman/Batman format, WORLD'S FINEST began to feature the Super-Sons, the teenage sons of Superman and Batman in a hazily defined parallel reality — written by Bob Haney, whose stories consistently evoke the sensation of mild concussion. The "real" Superman and Batman also returned, although they had to alternate with their hypothetical future sons, appearing roughly every other issue through 1976. From 1976 to 1982, WORLD'S FINEST once again became an oversize anthology book, with a Superman/Batman main feature backed by a variety of other characters like Green Arrow and Hawkman. The stories in that period are not quite as ludicrous as the late '60s (although if you see Bob Haney's name in the credits, you know you're in for a wild ride), but even the soberer installments are consistently very silly, full of nonsense like Kryptonian lycanthropy and the return of some especially ridiculous older villains like the Gorilla Boss of Gotham City and Doctor Double-X.
It wasn't until issue #285 that Superman and Batman again had the book all to themselves. The late period dials back the zaniness and has mostly uninspired plots, but writers Doug Moench and David Anthony Kraft compensate with some eyebrow-raising and apparently deliberate "Superbat" ship-bait; my personal favorite is Kraft's "No Rest for Heroes!" (a short story in the back of WORLD'S FINEST #302), where Superman and Batman go to a dive bar in the middle of nowhere to talk about their relationship and Batman ends up throwing a knife at someone.
Very little of this stuff is actually good by any normal standard — although the 1964–1967 period is no more or less weird than any other Weisinger Silver Age Superman stories — and the artwork is only occasionally better than passable. However, it's so stupid and so ridiculous that it's consistently fun, in a way DC doesn't really do anymore, at least not on purpose. Assembling all the Superman/Batman stories (leaving the Super-Sons to their own TPB), omitting the various backup strips, and giving it decent color reproduction would make for a nice package, and the presence of Superman and Batman would make it more commercially viable than some of DC's more artistically worthy back catalog material. Low-hanging fruit, if you ask me.
#comics#world's finest comics#curt swan#neal adams#murphy anderson#superman#batman#robin#jimmy olsen#mort weisinger#cary bates#robert kanigher#bob haney#david anthony kraft#doug moench#superbat
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hey do you perchance have like. idk a beginner's guide to superbat? I think that they're insane (good) but am afraid of actually getting into comics (so many. such a large amount of things. etcetera)
my motto is typically to never get anyone into comics unless I hate them very much but ... sure !
idk what ur entry level knowledge is .... "The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest" (1997) is a very good starting point for them, followed by their interactions in the Justice League (2000) and Justice League Unlimited (2001) cartoons.....
another good one is the "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" (2009) animated movie based off a comic by the same name.
for comics.... honestly ? my favorite superbat comics are the original World's Finest Comics (1941-1986). will cover a lot of superbat content before the lore started getting well. super confusing (still not super clear on what pre-crisis means. fake fan ig). the first issue they appear in together is #71 (which references their first meeting in Superman (1952) #76 - also a cute read). they continue to team up in these comics til the 80s and man. does it get weird. weird and gay.
I might rb this post with more when I think of more comics/cartoons that I feel confident recommending, but this is a good start for now I think :]
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