#and the new 52

[mel2530]

Reading comics is like liking to fall down your stairs sometimes. Every time there's a new horrible writer, terrible plotlines, character assassinations of every kind and you're left wondering why the hell you still read them. And then, by some MIRACLE, you finally get good runs and characterization and you finally remember why you like these stories. It's not gonna last, though :")

#dc comics #kon el #conner kent #in light of recent events let me tag him #but ESPECIALLY batman comics #GOSH #do not talk to me about the billions of retcons in Jason's story and personality #and the new 52 #AND the fact that people can't seem to agree on how fucked up they want Bruce to be #personally i don't want WANT a completely abusive asshole #but i don't want them to make him perfect either #because we KNOW he's not #he's fucked up for god's sake #but some runs just take that up to insane toxicity levels #breaking Jason's bones levels #after he apparently murdered the penguin #i will never forget that bullshit #also #the constant shitting on legacy characters #just to preserve the older ones. #the legacy characters who are WAY better people and characters most of the time #if you're gonna give me a progressively more abusive batman #OWN IT DAMNIT #make it an actual negative character development #I'm mad #bruce wayne #batman

[zoe-oneesama]

It wouldn’t be a series season finale without a Chat Noir pep talk.

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Our New Ladybug~

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#time to think up new petnames~ #scarlet lady #scarlet lady au #scarlet lady comic #ladybug #catalyst #episode 52 part 15

[fishfission-dc]

I think Roy Harper is the personification of all those “my unemployed friend on a Tuesday” memes. Even if he was employed. Like you’d walk into his home and it’s just full of Contraptions. He just does Things and the purpose is unintelligible

Jason is like this too but in a less noticeable way. Roy is like “I welded a toaster oven to my assault rifle to see if it would do anything when I zapped it with a taser” and Jason is like “I read four textbooks and wrote an academic paper about the Mesopotamian grain economy”

“what did you guys do today”

“we liberated a country and then I built a motorized couch that’s technically street legal and then Jason blew up the road couch”

#this is specifically about new 52 roy and jason. their red hood/arsenal era #i dont know #it feels right #jason todd #roy harper #jayroy #royjay #red hood #arsenal #red hood and the outlaws #dc comics #dc #batman #batfamily #dc robin #green arrow

[arttuff]

some robin 1 and 2 costume headcanons!!!

shorts on jason inspired by rillette on tumblr's amazing jason design. love this bug

imagine going to work at your henchman job and getting beaten up by a larval stage vigilante. i'd be mortified

#robin #dc robin #dick grayson #jason todd #batman #batfamily #batfam #nightwing #red hood #robin dick #robin jason #jason!robin #dick!robin #dc comics #dc #this is not continuity friendly im sorry fellow readers. i just want them to be cute and little #dick around 9 jason around 11 #the timeline changes in new 52 personally hurt me so im looking away

[zedreh]

I don't know why, but I just randomly remembered that time when Damian Wayne had superpowers.

Also, because of this, I was reminded of this moment from the same issue, when he wakes Bruce up.

#comics #dc #dc comics #damian wayne #robin #bruce wayne #batman #batman & robin #batdad #new 52

[boomstixx]

This took 71 hours (almost 3 days) working on and off at school, please dont let this flop 😭😭

#art #digital artist #dcu #dc fanart #dc comics #dc universe #dc red hood #dc jason todd #jason todd #red hood #new 52 #new 52 comics

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of the B-52's - 1980s Polaroids

#kate pierson #cindy wilson #the b 52's #fred schneider #vintage polaroids #80s bands #new wave #80s music #1980s #1983

[1skittler1]

The B-52's 🖤

#the b52s #the b 52's #cindy wilson #kate pierson #fred schneider #keith strickland #ricky wilson #70s #1970s #80s #1980s #new wave #band #bands #synthpop #love these guys

[creaman]

Scarecrow Redesign because he pecks away at my mind.

#I want to throw rocks at him #redesign #jonathan crane #scarecrow #fanart #new 52 contributes an ancient sadness to the design #one of. many of his outfits I intend on designing #batman rogue redesign #digital illustration #character design #creaman #vinegarclown #vclownverse

[dailydccomics]

Tim Drake in Batman Beyond vol 5 #5

#tim drake #batman #dc comics #batman beyond #BB vol 5 #futures end #dc #new 52

[winter-seance]

Doctor Who (2023) - The Giggle

#dwedit #dwgifs #doctorwhoedit #dtedit #tennantedit #david tennant #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #fourteen #my gifs #mygifs:dw #mygifs:dt #dw spoilers #“52 is the new 32”

[thedrunknextdoor]

people arguing over fanon vs. canon batfam is so funny considering the comics wouldnt know character consistency if it hit them over the head with a steel bat

#pre 52 this new 52 that IT ALL MEANS NOTHING!!!! #batfam #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #bruce wayne #damian wayne #duke thomas #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #EDIT: i cant believe i have to say this but this post is solely about personality and not representation #dont fucking whitewash characters

[therandomfandomme]

I know this is not what they intended with this, but I'm choosing to intrepret this as Alfred telling his bi son to get dicked down sometime lmao, or at the very least making a dick joke, just because I can xp

#51 of the New 52 Batman

#rrrambles #image in alt #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #new 52 comics #new 52 #new 52 batman #batman #dc #dc comics #bisexual bruce wayne #image described #superbat #(bc it is about justice eyes emoji)

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

DC Database’s guide to helping you keep track of retcons and changes is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

#dc comics #dan didio #dc rebirth #new 52 comics #flashpoint

[ferrouswheel11]

The original batkid age differences still work in the current comic era, and I'm gonna keep assuming they're canon unless they tell me otherwise. (sequel to this post)

Damian is canonically 14 (as of 2021).

This makes Tim about 21, which fits with his recent 'college dropout who lives alone on a houseboat' character arc (also 2021). A comic in 2015 said Tim was 16 when Damian was at least 10, but since it's a minor difference I'm gonna stick with the ~7 year gap they had pre-n52.

So Jason must be 23 — as far as I know, no canon contradicts this.

And Dick is about 29. This causes some minor issues, actually — in 2014 he was supposedly 21 when he should have been about 24, and in 2018 he's described as 'mid-20s,' which could be a stretch depending on how much in-universe time passed between 2018 and 2021. Overall though, not too messy.

So that makes Cass 24, Steph 21-22, and Babs around 30.

Honestly I have no idea how old Duke is beyond 'high school age" — from at least 2015 to present. Which actually kinda screws things up, if we assume that all the other characters aged 4 years in that time. Like, in 2015 he was closer to Tim's age, and now he seems to be closer to Damian's. For what it's worth tho, I think of him as ~17.

Anyway, point is DC DOES let their characters age (at least since the Rebirth era started in 2016. pretty sure n52 was like, a stasis bubble or something). I'm sure the timeline will continue to get wonkier as the youngest generation of heroes grows up, but for now the Bats seem to be doing alright.

#and I am NOT about to tackle all the other hero families #flashes? never heard of em. I'm sure they age on a TOTALLY normal and linear timeline tho #batman #batfam #dc comics #damian wayne #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #ehh no i don't want to tag every character mentioned. #batman meta #dc rebirth #dc new 52 #me posting about characters ages as if no other fan has done this kind of analysis before lol

[dickheadcanons]

The potential of a decade(s) long DickBatman and DamianRobin era literally haunts me at night.

Don’t get me wrong, one of the most interesting things about the Robins imo is how baked into each other they are. I know it’s a joke that Bruce will just adopt any random orphan in reach, but the truth is, especially for the boys, their entrance into the Batman world is predicated on the one before; Jason is only taken in because Bruce misses Dick, Tim only because Jason dies. (Steph becoming Robin is even more of a story choice, and not one I particularly like, but a narrative nonetheless.) Their narrative is tight in a way that “replaced sidekicks” aren’t usually. Somehow, they made a pure narrative choice (Dick needs to move on, readers wanted to see a dead Robin) into a very compelling character choice for Bruce too.

But Damian takes us back to the heart and soul of the dynamic duo. A young boy with a dead family, and a young man with a mission that’s too big for him.

Despite the differences, Dick is working to help Damian in the same way that Bruce worked to help him. And Damian, a wildly different person than Dick, still has really wonderful moments of giving Dick exactly the advice he needs to hear. Their partnership isn’t quite the same as Bruce and Dick’s (Dick and Damian are honestly much less damaged, comparably), but it’s closer than the others imo.

Damian and Dick purposefully take the original duo and flip it directly on its head. The exact opposite inside the same frame. They really felt like a new era. The perfect circle. If only we got a little more time before the close.

#dick grayson #damian wayne #dickbats era #new 52 you will always be hated in this household