Anyway, my proposal for a run on Detective Comics where I write a series of one-shot stories showcasing all of the various supporting cast Batman has accumulated with stories, including, but not limited to:
Batman invites Nightwing to Gotham to help him solve a murder. The murder is very straightforward and they dance around the real reason Bruce invited him, until at the end, he finally admits in a constipated Bruce way that it's the anniversary of him adopting Dick and he wanted to spend time with him.
Huntress and Robin (Tim Drake) team up to investigate Killer Croc. It turns out he's turning over a new leaf in the sewers near the Marina. Huntress is dubious, but Robin convinces her to give him a chance, though she says she'll be watching him. We re-canonize Joker: Last Laugh.
Damian and Duke team up to take on a street-racing operation--a mission that naturally requires them to do some high adrenaline racing together.
The Riddler gets on social media with a plot that involves lots of puzzles and clues all over Gotham. Oracle taps into old members of "We are Robin" to take it down.
Batgirl (Stephanie Brown) and Batman end up on the same missing persons case. With the pressure on to find the missing child, they snipe at each other as tensions rise. In the end, after saving the kid, Bruce sort of kind of apologizes in a Bruce way and expresses some measure of respect for her.
Jason teams up with Ghostmaker to take on, idk, one of the Clayfaces. Does Gotham still have one of those? I haven't read any comics ghostmaker's in yet, but from I've heard it sounds like they'd have an interesting dynamic. Jason gets flashbacks to digging his way out of his grave.
Luke Fox recruites Harper Row (She does engineering stuff right? I also need to read comics she has a significant role in.) They take some new tech for a joyride and go bother the Penguin.
Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) and Azrael team up to take down Mad Hatter. He probably has some elaborate Alice in Wonderland theming going on that neither of them get. (I think neither of them should have read it.)
Batwoman and Catwoman team up to steal back some Kane family heirlooms, possibly from Jacob Kane (What's his and Kate's relationship looking like anyway?), possibly from someone else.
Gotham Girl and somebody. Me advancing my Cass & Claire agenda Possibly Oracle trying to rehabilitate her in that controlling yet well-intentioned way she has sometimes? Someday, I will get to being more up to date on what Claire's status quo in current comics is.
A handful of representatives from Gotham's various crime families get together in the backroom of a bar somewhere. They play poker and exchange stories of being busted by the various bat-affiliated vigilantes in which they are very scary and almost inhuman. It ends with Batgirl (Cass) busting in and beating them up.
Helena Bertinelli takes a gig as a substitute teacher at Gotham Academy. She teams up with Maps & other supporting cast when Mr Freeze takes the school hostage while trying to escape the police.
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I love that when Cass was first learning how to speak the people she was closest to were Barbara “probably reads the dictionary for fun” Gordon, Batman, and a guy who talked like Papyrus Undertale
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Rank the batfam's hero names
Nightwing, Flamebird, Azrael: 10/10 no notes
Huntress: 9/10 I don't think the name quite matches the look but it's still pretty badass
Oracle: 8/10 I can see where she's coming from but aren't oracles supposed to see into the future
Bluebird: 7/10 because it's better than what's coming after this
Robin: 6/10 since so many people have held that title
Batwing: 5/10 a little derivative but it fits
Red Hood: 4/10 I feel personally victimized that Jason Todd isn't a real person that I could have a drink with
Batman/Batwoman/Catwoman/Batgirl: 3/10 anything with a man/woman/etc. suffix loses points for originality in my book
Spoiler: 2/10 sorry Steph I love you but it doesn't work outside a specific context
Signal: 1/10 you're named after a lightbulb
Orphan: 0/10 I get the message but that doesn't automatically make the name good
Red Robin: -5/10 might as well call yourself Applebee's
Drake: -1000000/10 who greenlit this I need to have a word
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jean-paul valley orrrrr noriko ashida & sam blindspot (hanging out) (i think she could be his friend that he doesn’t like that much)
two of them
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