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barbara gordon in batman: urban legends #2 (red hood and batman - cheer pt 2)
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#i am lowkey loving urban legends#haven't been a big fan of the brave and the bold#this is way better#maybe it's just cause i feel like the arcs are so batman focused#and while i love him#i want more batfamily stories#barbara gordon#oracle#jason todd#red hood#bruce wayne#batman#dc comics#comics panels#batman: urban legends#written by: chip zdarsky#art by: marcus to#colours by: adriano lucas#queue
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I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc
#damian wayne#damian al ghul#damian al ghul wayne#batman#batfamily#for all of the issues that come with having Steph as your fave having too much wild shit happening at once is never one of them#btw I quite like The Boy Wonder Issue 1. wow shocker an artist and writer who I have liked everything they've ever done#has once again written something that I am enjoying with art that makes me want to be part of its world.#it's almost like Juni Ba is really freaking talented or something#like I have some problems with it but it seems like many of those are part of the point. Damian is learning that his siblings are more#three-dimensional than he realized and that is part of this 'coming of age' story merged with fairytale#so I can't be mad at the oversimplistic defining of Dick and Jason and Tim until the conclusion of the series. that might be the point.#I hope that the series will address Steph as a Robin but if not then frankly it's not an issue unique to this series.#I'll be annoyed and disappointed but ultimately roll with it like I am with Babsgirl being here. There's too much good stuff here to get#hung up on shit that seems to be almost an editorial mandate at this point. at least that's where I'm at.#I am also very sorry that Chip Zdarsky is massacring your boy. he has 'X (Tim for him) is the best Robin so everyone else must suck' diseas#where a writer really likes one specific Robin and in trying to uplift them demeans all of the other Robins. instead of like...just writing#for that one character only or alternatively not demeaning the other characters in order to make his blorbo look good#it's wild because I actually think his writing for Tim is pretty solid. but he's not writing a Tim series. he's writing a Batman series.#and if you are going to write a Batman series and include other Batfamily members you need to actually write them well.#instead of assigning them like 2 personality traits while Tim gets to be a whole character#I accept that behavior in fanfic where I have lesser standards because it's fucking free. not a comic run that wants me to pay#tens of dollars in order to understand what the fuck is going on. he's been going for a while now it's gotta be a lot of money.#I can buy Steelworks with that money. I can see John Henry and Natasha Irons in a trade. Fuck you Chip.#it's why it takes such a special person to write a good ensemble story/a good Batfamily story. you have to be good at writing a LOT#of different characters. which I don't think most people are. I sure as hell am not. I can write maybe 3 at a time confidently well.#and you also have to give all of them at least SOME love or else people will be upset that you aren't focusing on their fave#and also the writing as a whole will suffer. Chip Zdarsky is a pretty good Tim writer. I'd maybe read a Tim solo written by him.#I would not read a story focusing on multiple characters that I like written by Chip Zdarsky. because every character who isn't Tim#is at least a bit weak/inconsistent/out of character INCLUDING FUCKING BATMAN. THE NO. 1 GUY MOST ARE HERE FOR
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So far Gotham War has done at least 4 things for the Bat-Family women outside of Selina and only one of them is good, that being Stephanie getting a new costume.
The rest is just awful.
Cass getting absolutely jobbed.
Stephanie getting called Spoiler again when she's Batgirl.
Barbara apparently ACTIVELY helping Bruce imprison Jason from what I know, though I could be wrong on that.
It's just not a good event for them, they deserve a whole ass event after this.
EDIT: Apparently I mistook Barbara for another character, but tbh she still has had jackshit to do in this event so idc, event still did absolutely nothing of value for her.
#fuck the Bat-Boys i'm tired#it's misogyny idc#COMING FROM CHIP AND HE HAS WRITTEN FEMALE CHARACTERS WELL IN THE PAST!#i'm just tired man#cassandra cain#stephanie brown#barbara gordon#batgirl#batgirls#dc comics#gotham war#chip zdarsky
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actually lol I'm not even gonna pretend anymore. becoming daredevil is singlehandedly the worst thing that has ever happened to elektra
#elektra natchios#second worst is being written by chip zdarsky#i hate hate hate it#congratulations you missed the entire point of her character#congratulations you retethered her to matt which is the last thing that should ever be done to her
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I'm not sorry but making Matt a priest is the one of the shittiest fanfic tropes/AUs/whatever in terms of dd fanfic I've ever seen and zdarsky making that official in his run just solidifies it since his entire run has basically been one shitty fanfic.
#daredevil comics#tfw talking#wednesday spoilers#anti chip zdarsky#idc if you've written it before just block me and keep scrolling I don't wanna hear it#that shit esp sucks when pairing up said priest matt with frank#and granted I fucking hate that pairing now#even before when I liked fr*tt I hated that type of au
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tags by @silvernsold reading: #you're really selling me on the archie comics.... #maybe I should read them
oooo you wanna read the 2015 Jughead Jones comics so bad oooo there's three volumes and they're self contained oooo jughead jones in them to this day is one of the best arospec ace characters I've ever seen ooooo you wanna click this link so bad: https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Jughead-2015
ooo you also wanna read the digital comic jughead jones time police because it's also extremely fun: https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Jughead-s-Time-Police-2019
#im not joking when i say that jughead 2015 initally written by chip zdarsky and drawn by erica henderson#then written by ryan north and draen by derek charm#is genuinely one of my favorite comics of all time#yes i know they're aimed at a younger audiences but like. a lot of the stuff i like is#i would say if you enjoyed phineas and ferb you would like these comics they're about friendship identity and most importantly#Schemes and Whimsy
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mourning the loss of my monthly ghostbat fanfic… i can’t believe it’s over and they didn’t kiss
#batman: the knight#god i love chip zdarsky#tbh btk may be one of my fav batman stories ever#it was just so well done and emotional and gorgeous and well written#batman#ghostmaker#boutta go write some ghostbat fics me thinks
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Batman #146 - "Dark Prisons II" (2024)
written by Chip Zdarsky
art by Jorge Jimenez & Tomeu Morey
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DC June 2024 Solicitations - Comics Featuring Damian! 🦇
BATMAN #148
6/4/2024
Written by Chip Zdarsky
Art and Cover by Jorge Jimenez
Variant Covers: Woo-Chul, Homare (1:25), Gabriel Dell'Otto (1:50), Yasmine Putri, Skylar Patridge (DC Pride Variant)
“DARK PRISONS - FINALE” It all comes down to this: Batman versus Batman! With Damian's life - and the future of Gotham - hanging in the balance, nothing can prepare either version of the Dark Knight for what's about to happen!
BATMAN #149
6/18/2024
Written by Chip Zdarsky
Art by Michele Bandini
Cover by Jorge Jimenez
Variant Covers: Belen Ortega, Dan Panosian (1:25), Steve Lieber (1:50)
“DARK PRISONS - EPILOGUE” When confronted with the totality of your life, and all the choices that led you to where you are, do you build on the ashes, or rise from them? The Batman who is left standing will have to answer this question quickly, as someone is already sifting through those ashes, with an eye toward saving the world!
BATMAN AND ROBIN #10
6/11/2024
Written by Joshua Williamson
Art and Cover by Simone Di Meo
Variant Covers: Gleb Melnikov, Guillem March, Sergio Acuna (1:25)
SHUSH RISES! Man-Bat's plans have been unleashed on Gotham. The only person who can help Batman and Robin save the city is...
SHUSH?! Can she set aside her hate for the dynamic duo and help, or will she let her quest for revenge overcome her?
THE BOY WONDER #2 of 5
6/4/2024
Written by Juni Ba
Art and Cover by Juni Ba
Variant Cover: Chris Samnee
Jason Todd is the exile prince of Batman's kingdom, stalking Gotham's darkest alleys and eternally turning his face from the light of day-all because he cannot quench the burning flame of anger and retribution that consumes his heart. Can Damian learn from Jason's mistakes? Or is the reflective mask of the Red Hood doomed to be a mirror held up to his own future?
WONDER WOMAN #10
6/18/2024
Written by Tom King
Art and Cover by Daniel Sampere and Belen Ortega (Backup Story)
Variant Covers: Julian Totino Tedesco, Daxiong, Jeff Spokes (1:25), Phil Jimenez (DC Pride Variant)
This cat has claws! Cheetah enters the fray as the Sovereign recruits Diana's greatest foe to deal the killing blow! Meanwhile, the Wonder Girls may have promised their mentor that they'd stay out of her fight, but well-behaved heroes seldom make history. Will they reach Diana before it's too late? Plus, Trinity takes to the skies...literally!
BATMAN: WAYNE FAMILY ADVENTURES VOL 5
8/6/2024
Written by CRC Payne
Art by Starbite
Cover by Vasco Georgiev
Collecting the finale of season two of the smash-hit WEBTOON series! When your superhero life is just as busy as your personal life, there's never a dull moment in the Bat-Family. Bruce Wayne's young heroes are still learning to fight and live side by side, but they always have each other's backs.
Whether it's teaming up to fight a massive villain or a massive head cold, Nightwing, Robin, Oracle, Spoiler, the Signal, and the rest know what it takes to smash that problem in the face!
Collecting episodes 98-116 of the massively popular WEBTOON series, optimized for a brand-new reading experience in print!
BATMAN AND ROBIN VOL 1: FATHER AND SON
8/6/2024
Written by Joshua Williamson
Art by Simone Di Meo, Nikola Cizmesija, Mikel Janin
Cover by Simone Di Meo
The Dawn of the Dynamic Duo
Isolated from their friends and allies, Batman and Robin have moved into a Gotham City brownstone to rebuild their lives, reconnect with one another, and, of course, fight crime. No sooner do they settle in when they are attacked by their most monstrous villains, led by the mysterious Shush. Whispering from the shadows, she is intent on revenge with a plot to turn one of Batman's greatest assets against him!
With his father incapacitated by Shush, can Damian help solve the case before it's too late? Can he survive the tribulations of high school at the same time?
A brand-new fun and exciting adventure begins for comics' greatest father-and-son duo, from DC Comics architect Joshua Williamson (The Flash, Knight Terrors) and superstar artist Simone Di Meo (Batman:
White Knight Presents: Red Hood)! Collects Batman and Robin #1-6!
#damian wayne#baby bat sighting#the b&r variants specifically caters to me GLEB MELNIKOV BASEBALL DAMIAN!!#Guillem March Bruce tossing Damian like a football reminds me of Dick and Dami's ALLEYOOP#just the entirety of Damian's room in Sergio Acuna's#according to Ortega/King there might be corgis and samurais for those Trinity backups loll who knows what happens next in those
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Some Tim stans are acting like Damian fans are just mad Damian messed up and are insisting it is fine for a character to mess up. But Damian isn't messing up for his own character. This isn't for Damian to learn or grow. It doesn't even align with how Damian would reasonably mess up. This 'mess up' is most likely to sideline Damian for Tim. This is really obvious. Damian shouldn't have in character trusted Zur but he did so Tim can be the good Robin.
EXACTLY!!!!! I've seen several posts about how Damian wasn't OOC and he was "just a child who wanted his father's approval"
People who say this apparently didn't understand Damian's character.
Damian is the child who found his father's identity from a crowd without knowing anything about him. He understood that imposter Insomnia wasn't his father and immediately stabbed him with a sword.
Damian is clever, smart and cunning. In Batman and Robin (2011) he tricked both Batman and Nobody. And neither of them suspected anything until Damian revealed it himself.
But in Zur arc, Damian is just there to look dumb so he can show how "smart" and "perfect" Tim is. Beacuse Chip Zdarsky is basically screaming about his fanboying Tim.
As you just said, this is not something Damian would do. This is not a "mistake" that Damian can have. This incident does not, under any circumstance, add anything to Damian's character development. We have seen, since 2016, that Damian's development he had over the years were thrown to trash. All DC wants to do with him is to be villain.
I was actually starting to gain hope with Batman and Robin (2023) since Damian is not a villainized there (But I don't like how Williamson writes Damian either but at least he is better than Zdarsky. But that's another story.). Unfortunately, however, Damian is still contiuned to be used as a villain, a demon child who always makes stupid mistakes and causes disasters in return.
Like I said in my previous post, Damian will have to apologise for "the things he have done". And, once again, he will be shown as a dumbass who doesn't understand obvious things, and doesn't think the consequences of his actions.
If Damian was written in character, Damian would've notice the moment he laid his eyes on Failsafe, that it wasn't his father. Damian would've become a double agent. He would've secretly make plans to defeat Zur from inside.
Yet, with this writer, we will have a heroic Tim while down grading Damian.
Damian is only there so that Zur can have an evil sidekick and thus, DC can have their "Good B&R vs Evil B&R" fight.
I used to like Tim, actually. I thought he was cool and had potential and could be good brothers with Damian. But in last years, writers always downgrade and badmouth other Robins (particularly Damian) to shine the spotlights to Tim. And while Tim has awesome moments with Bruce, while he saves him, Damian has a horrible relationship with his father. Bruce tells him that even though he loves him, he doesn't like Damian, or just how brash and cruel Damian is, or blaming Damian for Alfred's death etc.
Tim can be written as a good Robin, and for this, DC doesn't need to sweep the floor with the other Robins.
#damian wayne#tim drake#bruce wayne#damian al ghul#batman 147#batman#batman comics#robin#dc#dc comics#long post#batfamily#batfam#anti chip zdarsky
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All Timber kisses so far (in the comics):
Batman #132 - The Toy Box: Part 2
Written by Chip Zdarsky with art by Miguel Mendonça
Tim Drake: Robin #6
Written by Meghan Fitzmartin with art by Ricardo López Ortiz and Riley Rossmo
Tim Drake: Robin #7
Written by Meghan Fitzmartin with art by Serg Acuña
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barbara gordon in batman #126
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#don't get me started on the soldiers thing#i'm so mad this good art is being WASTED on this arc smh#barbara gordon#oracle#dick grayson#bruce wayne#batman#dc comics#written by: chip zdarsky#art by: jorge jimenez#colours by: tomeu morey#batman (2016)#issue 126
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Some more coherent thoughts about Gotham War, now it's settled on me.
(Spoilers below cut, for length and as it's still only Wednesday)
It's not a huge surprise, but Selina's whole 'train henches to steal from the rich non-violently!' ended up being a complete side issue that only existed to get the plot moving. Nobody's conception of this plot, in two years time, will really include this detail, despite the thousands of words spent arguing how ridiculous it was.
Yes it remains a poorly thought out plan on Selina's part (she's never heard of earning money legally) but the narrative also frames it as long term ineffective from the very first issue and knocks it down on multiple occasions.
DC editorial definitely tried to dress this up as a full family event, but realistically it was a Bruce, Selina and Jason event, written by their three current writers, with solid bit parts played by Tim and Dick.
Vandal Savage remains ridiculous and ready to sacrifice anyone and I appreciate that about him. As a villain he was just the right level of stakes for this event.
I enjoyed getting to see Scandal, even if her fans would say she got done dirty here. Scandal usually has enough sense not to believe anything Vandal says, and I admit I was somewhat waiting for some level of twist here as to why Scandal was all for immortality at this point in time, but it never came.
I still agree it felt a lot like three separate plotlines intersecting, but I think they managed to land the event successfully (while leaving some nice loose threads). I actually appreciate they didn't overreach in their goals.
It still finished out with two separate plotlines: Bruce and Selina and Jason; and Dick and Tim and the rest of the family. Structurally this again reminded me as much of Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul as Batman #138 did; the main plot and then the far more interesting Dick & Tim sideplot which is what I go back to reread. (Chip Zdarsky is clearly also a fan)
Also promisingly for an event yes, it did actually shake up the status quo and push the participants off in new directions.
So Bruce is now doing the Loner Batman thing (in that he's locked out of the fam computers/comm lines), Selina is officially 'dead' (what is with all these fake dead people with titles, Penguin is too right now), and Jason has what's effectively permanent fear toxin response to stressful situations. Also, apparently, we are getting Dick and Barbara back 'running' the Batfam while Bruce is on the outs.
As far as Bruce goes, what has been really notable in this event is how much Chip Zdarsky loves early 2000s Bat comics and their dynamics, and particularly Joker's Last Laugh. There's a lot of structural things about how this event was shaped, what specific characters did, and emotional beats that feel very JLL as someone who's read it at least half a dozen times. It's not the only influence, but it's a pretty prominent one.
Bruce ending the event in a position where he's effectively not working with most of the other Bats actually tracks reasonably well over to Batman & Robin, to my surprise. It makes sense that it's just Bruce and Damian and they're focusing on homelife and domestic relationship details between the two. It gives Bruce an excuse for why he's closely focused on Damian there.
I will admit I have not been reading Catwoman, but from the event it seems they're spinning her off to keep moving her back into a more antihero position. Tini Howard clearly has a direction she wants to take Selina.
I actually think this has pretty interesting storytelling potential for Jason. It means that he has to stay calm, or has to overcome his own fear to achieve things. It gives him a goal? Matthew Rosenberg clearly seems interested in using it for his Jason storytelling and he's got Jason right now, so...
I'm personally delighted by how much Tim Zdarsky wrote into this storyline. He used the space more to show off Dick and Tim's brotherhood and what Tim is good at, rather than push the Tim side of the Zur story we're all expecting to occur (there's that waiting Zur-Robin costume). Means he's planning it for Batman as a title itself rather than getting it tangled up here.
"It was the only way to become the second-best Robin". Yes, this is Tim getting to show off his core competencies - he probably is the only Bat other than Bruce who would have extensively studied all the trophies. Dick would remember a lot of them simply because a lot of the trophies are from old adventures, but pretty much all the others are not particularly retrospective, respect the past sort of members of the group, while Tim has always been surrounded by the shadows of the past. I loved this note.
I haven't talked about Babs yet! She's in green, in glasses, sitting down at her computers with a novelty mug, directing everyone, answering to Oracle. That's her! That's my Oracle!
I do think Bruce expecting Dick to take over running the Batfam right now is a big ask, given he's also running the Titans as the main superhero team on the planet and handling Bludhaven, but Tom Taylor's writing both those books so I don't expect to see the stress catching up with Dick there. Benefits of writer choice right now, I guess. Also personally 'Babs and Dick organise everyone while Bruce has a breakdown elsewhere' is one of my favourite Batfam dynamics so you know, I'm pretty excited if we actually get to see this play out.
New Lazarus Pit in Gotham! This won't be a problem at all.
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Batman #136 - "Dusk to Dawn" (2023)
Written by Chip Zdarsky
Art by Belen Ortega & Tomeu Morey
#batman#the batman#dick grayson#nightwing#jason todd#red hood#tim drake#red robin#robin#damian wayne#damian al ghul#cassandra cain#black bat#stephenie brown#the spoiler#bruce wayne#wayne family adventures#batman wayne family adventures#barbara gordon#oracle#batgirl#batgirls#duke thomas#wayne manor
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From Avengers: Twilight #004, “The Firefighters”
Art by Daniel Acuña
Written by Chip Zdarsky
#avengers: twilight#captain america#steve rogers#iron man#james stark#thor odinson#rosa rogers#hawkeye#ramona jones#tyler#ms. marvel#kamala khan#luke cage#tony stark#red skull#johann shmidt#marvel#comics#marvel comics
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I like how it's painfully, glaringly obvious which parts of Gotham War were written by Tini Howard and which ones were written by Chip Zdarsky.
A twitter friend said this is the lowest point for Zdarsky Batman but an average day for Howard Catwoman and he was so right for that honestly. Jesus christ man.
#batman's conflict is he's a rich superhero but in real life rich people are the bad guys therefore batman is a bad guy#daring today aren't we#batman#catwoman#bruce wayne#selina kyle#gotham war
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