#lonely places comic

[batcavescolony]

Nightwing: hey Titans, umm id like to introduce you to Robin

Tim Robin: Hi

Titans: uhhh hi

Kory: h-WAIT you're the kid that showed up at my door asking about Nightwing! How did you get my address?

Dick: yeah he does that but it's fine, he's Robin now.

#comics #dc comics #robin #tim drake #batman #bruce wayne #dick grayson #red robin #nightwing #kory anders #starfire #koriand'r #teen titans #new teen titans #tim in a lonely place of dying is batshit crazy and hes not even a bat yet #like he stalked the Teeen Titans showed up at koris door and broke into dicks apartment #incorect batfam #incorrect teen titans #batfam #batfamily #the other titans are confused because.....didn't one just die? and now theirs a.. you know what thats batbusiness

[litta-jpg]

im rereading tim comics hehe

og panel:

#he's so small and eager to learn :] #tim drake #bruce wayne #robin #red robin #batman #dc #comics #batfam #fanart #art tag #a lonely place of dying

[ferrouswheel11]

A Lonely Place of Dying [New Titans #60] // The Grail [Red Robin #4]

At the beginning and end of Tim's run as Robin, Dick is forced to choose whether or not to trust Tim's wild theory that Bruce Wayne needs to be saved.

#dc comics #batman #red robin #tim drake #dick grayson #a lonely place of dying #panels #tim at the turning points in bruce's life #a time when it was hard to believe that bruce could self destruct and a time when it was hard to believe he could survive

[lemonlimestar]

alpod redraw for the first post B) i care them so hard…..

original panel under the cut :)

#bart (as in bug art) #dc comics #dc #dick grayson #tim drake #dc robin #nightwing #batman #this took me SO LONG but it was worth it because. brotherism #a lonely place of dying #page redraw

[softboyshaven]

Tim Drake is so funny to me as an Icon because Starlin wanted to kill the idea of child sidekicks,of Robin as a light. He wanted to kill the hope and joy of him. Wanted to slaughter the importance and responsibility of having someone relying on you,of having a child to come home to. And he was allowed to kill Jason,was allowed to kill Robin and then not even a year later Wolfman went "Here's a Robin so in love with the idea and responsibility of Robin that Dick Grayson imprinted himself on his brain and Tim hasn't stopped thinking about it since." And he became the Robin that can't stop being Robin and LMAO fuck you Jim Starlin,I'm glad you're here to see it.

#dc #dc batman #batman #jason todd #tim drake #bruce wayne #dick grayson #comics #a lonely place of dying #death in the family #jim starlin #marv wolfman #robin jason todd #dc robin #batman and robin #dc comics #comic books #robin tim drake #robin

[gretahayes]

Batman #440 (Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying)

Hi Tim !! First appearance of our baby stalker. Love how they set him up so we'd think it's a villain and not the world's strangest thirteen year old

#my rambles #rus reads tim comics #<- new tag whooo #rus reads a lonely place of dying #<- ANOTHER new tag <3 #tim drake #comic panel

[shyjusticewarrior]

Rebirth Detective Comics: A Lonely Place of Living

Tim Drake: Robin #3

#dc #dc comics #comics #comic books #detective comics #james tynion iv #tim drake: robin #meghan fitzmartin #tim drake robin #a lonely place of living #batfam #batfamily #tim drake #red robin #robin #jason todd #red hood #the red hood #joker #a death in the family #comic pages #comic panels #parallels #lore #motifs #batkids #batman

[pinkcowzz]

something about tim & dick’s relationship makes me feel so. !!!

they are both such complex characters and it really makes my heart feel so heavy to think about them for too long.

like. dick created robin out of his parents blood. the costume was inspired by his family's colors. the name was one he was given by his mother and the only reason he took up the role was because he wanted to get justice (revenge really) for his parents death. he was taken in by bruce who was SO YOUNG at the time and who was still learning how to cope with his own loss still. their relationship was built off of that shared grief and understanding. but then one day, dick learned to let go of that grief. he was able to not let it consume and control him. and he grew tired of living in the dark nest that bruce built for them. and bruce doesn't know how to deal with someone else he loves leaving him so he kicks dick out. like yes bruce is dick's father figure of course he is. but he was also his brother in a weird way. dick didn't want or need for his parents to be replaced so bruce offered him something different. he offered him a partnership. and partners are supposed to be equal but somehow bruce ended up placing himself higher than dick and it was suffocating so he had to leave.

and in dicks absence, bruce finds another kid. this time, it's a kid who does need a parent. jason's relationship with bruce is so different than the one that dick had and i have to imagine that it hurt. it hurts to see your father be better for someone else. it makes you think why? why not me? why wasn't i good enough? and to make matters worse bruce gave away dick's blood without a second thought. jason is given the mantle of robin and my god i cannot imagine the pain it caused dick to see someone else flying around in his colors. that was his name. and dick is still just a kid. yeah he's like legally an adult but his prefrontal cortex was nowhere near developed. so he's bitter and short and rude to jason. he has to take time to get used to having another kid at the manor and another kid in his colors but its fine! its fine! he does come around eventually and his guard starts to come down and he commits to being there for jason. but it was too late. dick leaves the planet to be a hero and when he comes back? jason is dead. the kid he was just starting to get used to is dead.

not only is he dead, but he's already in the ground and bruce? bruce goddamn wayne didn't even bother to tell him. how in the world could bruce ever consider them partners. as far as dick was concerned bruce was just as good as dead to him as jason was. and it hurts. it hurts to not be able to go home without seeing the ghost of a kid you chose not to protect, the ghost of a kid who died too soon wearing the same colors that your parents died in.

so dick doesn't go home. he doesn't speak to bruce. he builds himself a new life, the teen titans become dicks home. and he's okay with this. his origin is so similar to bruce's but he refuses to be the same as batman. so he faces his ghosts. he doesn't let them haunt him. he hears about haly's circus potentially getting shut down and he goes to deal with it.

and here is where dick meets tim drake for the first time. tim who tried to help him save haly's circus (albeit he accused the wrong guy but he was trying). tim tells dick that he needs to save batman.

and so dick brings him back to the manor. where tim tells dick just how important he was to his childhood. tim explains how that night at the circus shaped him just as deeply as it shaped dick. tim shares this complete and utter faith in robin, as if robin is enough to save batman from his own grief. but dick knows this isn't true. dick was barely enough to save himself from his own grief much less bruces. but nonetheless bruce saved dick when he was at his absolute lowest. gave him something to believe in. so maybe, just maybe, he can try again for bruce. but not as robin. it can't be robin. his partnership with batman died when he was kicked out and it was buried when he was kept out of the loop about jason. but tim knows that batman needs more than nightwing by his side. so he takes up the robin mantle. he takes it upon himself to 'save' batman. and in a way, he does. he helps bring bruce back from the edge.

and dick. the last time someone took up his families colors, someone died. and he refuses to allow that again. he refuses to be the reason that tim suffers. so he becomes the older brother he couldn't quite bring himself to be for jason. and to tim? he's wearing the mantle of two robins on his back.

his own standards are set so high and he tries his damndest to meet them every time that he puts on the mask because he knows where the colors of the suit came from. he knows why dick created this identity. he was there. he saw the grayson's fall.

and for a while, things are good between them. things are great even.

then the attack at titan's tower happens. and tim is told that he is just a placeholder (not a replacement like fannon likes to claim, but the words jason todd used were placeholder). and seeds of doubt start to be planted. was he ever wanted? was he ever truly appreciated? he did steal the suit the first time he put it on. was it fair for him to wear the colors that were born of dicks blood and that jason died in?

then tim loses his whole support system. stephanie. bart and kon. his dad. and finally, bruce.

dick has been so committed to never being like bruce. he has been so dedicated to relying on those who offer him help. nightwing is pillar in the hero community, but batman. batman was the foundation. he is considered a founding member of the justice league. he doesn't want to take up the mantle. it had never been in his plans. but jason proved too unstable to take up the role and of course he can't ask tim to. so he dawns the cowl he has grown to hate.

this just leaves one little problem. damian.

damian who has just been dropped off on bruce's porch by talia. damian who grew up in the league of assassins and is so out of place in gotham that dick doesn't know what to do. he never asked to be batman and he definitely never asked to be a father. yet here he is. having to do both. so he does what bruce did all those years ago and provides damian with the mantle that he created in order to give this kid some sort of outlet. he knows damian needs it.

by some unfortunate twist of fate, dick has unknowingly created such a painful parallel between his own firing and tim's.

and then tim discovers that bruce isn't really dead.

and this kills dick just a little bit more. of course he wants to believe tim. of course he wants his dad back. he wants someone else to be the one to make these hard calls and he wants someone else to parent damian. he doesn't want to be the one who has to fire his little brother in order to save the other.

but he can't take that chance. he can't risk the hope. because losing it would actually ruin dick. so he tells tim it isn't possible. because to dick? it can't be possible.

and this just furthers the wedge between the two of them. tim feels abandoned and lost and he feels as if he has nothing left.

and dick doesn't understand why tim can't see that he's right here. he's right here tim i'm still here why aren't i enough for you to stay?

anyway this got away from me a little bit but god their relationship could make angels weep it truly makes my heart stop if i think about it too much.

#batman #tim drake #batfamily #batfam #dc comics #dick grayson #a lonely place of dying #red robin #sorry this is so long #i just have so many thoughts #they mean so much to me #tim and dick #nightwing #robin

[wightning]

It's funny how unenthusiastic everyone was upon meeting Tim. Of course they warm up to him eventually, but he just barrels into their lives distressingly blasé about knowing their biggest secret and starting conversations with “Ever since Robin, who I know was Jason btw, died-” without explaining who he is or why he’s in the loop and everybody very understandably reacts by going I’m sorry who the fuck are you. Everything out of this kid’s mouth has people going ?????

The fact that he’s both incredibly nosy and chatty throughout all of this doesn’t help. He involves himself in a murder investigation at Haley’s Circus. Upon Dick bringing him to Wayne Manor, still completely bewildered about who this random kid is, Tim starts gushing about the art and asks to see the rest of the house. Alfred at one point straight up tells him “You ask too many personal questions”.

Incredible case of Not Being Able To Read The Fucking Room disease

#bullying is ok as long as it’s Tim drake #tim drake #cy posts #dick grayson #alfred pennyworth #batman #bruce wayne #batfam #DC comics #batman comics #a lonely place of dying #batboys #batkids #Jason Todd #Red Robin

[thethingaboutnapkinman]

Tim and Dick's first interaction

the ages look off I can't explain it

#dick grayson #batman #lonely place of living #batman comics #tim drake #robin

[thegeekylady52]

tim drake really did invent being a fanboy

(Batman: Lonely Place of Dying)

#rereading death in the family and lonely place of dying #for the who know what-ieth time #fucking love this comics #tim drake #dick grayson #tim is the biggest dick grayson fan and if you think jason was his robin you're crazy #sorry for batfamily posting it just be like that sometimes

[batcavescolony]

Tim: *going to the circus to find Dick to get him to become Robin again*

Circus: *lion tamer gets killed in front of everyone*

Tim: wow I have bad luck with the circus....hey while I'm here I'll help with this too. Side quest, then I'll get Dick to become Robin again.

#comics #dc comics #robin #tim drake #batman #bruce wayne #dick grayson #red robin #jason todd #nightwing #red hood #batfam #bat family #he went to the circus when he was a baby and watched some acrobats die then he goes again and seea a lion tamer die is he an omen of death? #....that'd be in interesting fic. #batman comics #a lonely place of dying #as you can tell thats what im reading rn #i mean dick was there bolth times too some mybe its both of them at the circus at the smae time causes death #well we cant take dixk out of the circus so timmy can no longer go to the circus. poor timmy but gotta stop people from dying

[okanra]

The whole “Trunks and Goten in High school AU” webcomic is being soft-rebooting, more properly this time and not just a “fan art stuff”. This is more like an adaptation for an art assignment now, which is really nostalgic for me.

This webcomic series’s name is “The UNSPOKEN” anyway, it’s much shorter than its original name and much more concise ✌️

#the unspoken webcomic #truten in high school au #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dbz #goten #dbz goten #trunks #trunks briefs #trunks dbz #it’s hilarious how i’m updating this more into a place where nobody really cares about what i’m doing #which is both liberating and kinda lonely but eh #it’s like i’m monologing lmao #the price of ‘not drawing fanart’ I guess #in a way #i should really stop tagging lol to the Tumblr habit #my comic #comics

[ferrouswheel11]

That one panel from A Lonely Place of Dying, but recolored so Tim's face isn't dumpster green.

#batman #dc comics #tim drake #dick grayson #a lonely place of dying #alpod #nightwing #robin #comic scans #comic edit #my edit

[heroesriseandfall]

Part of what’s so fun about the earliest Tim comics is how he is clearly an outsider with an abnormal amount of information and self-investment. He has spent about 4 years learning things by guesses and intuition and a child’s passionate detective work, all without ever actually talking to anyone directly. He thinks he knows…but he doesn’t.

He knows their identities, he’s super passionate about what those identities symbolize, he knows their addresses and a creepy amount about their schedules and associates. He knows the stories he’s found in newspapers and on tv or that he’s seen himself. He remembers meeting Dick, and seeing Batman, and he’s seen them again many times since, from a distance or in photos/videos. But he doesn’t know anything else! And most importantly, he doesn’t know them personally in the way he’ll end up knowing them over time.

He didn’t actually know where their base was until Dick showed him the Batcave! He’d never actually met Alfred despite knowing his name! He knew the places Dick lived in New York but he didn’t know the messy situation that led to Dick moving out of Kory’s apartment! He essentially studied Batman and Robin for years and yet still, he has to badger Dick for more information on the history of Robin because Tim was a child and not there during that history, no matter how much of a Robin fan he was.

His only clues as to how to navigate their emotions and personalities is based on guessing how they might react, he doesn’t have the experiential framework to actually know. He assumes Dick will be upset to hear Tim talk about his parents dying, so he avoids bringing it up and apologizes when he does. And he’s not wrong, Dick is a bit upset to talk about it, but Tim doesn’t actually know the feelings Dick has on it or how he’d handle those feelings. (He probably doesn’t know Dick has been going to therapy.)

And Tim initially assumes Dick must take on the Robin mantle and support Batman, completely unaware of exactly how complicated and unfitting and bad that is for Dick at this point. To Tim, Dick is his Robin! Of course he is the perfect person to fulfill the role of Robin. But to Dick, he has set Robin aside, he has been building independence from Bruce as he grapples with the ways Bruce treated him over the years. He has already become someone new and cannot return to what is, for him, his child self. Tim doesn’t see this! He knows the fun facts but he doesn’t know anything beyond that! (Until later.)

(Tim knows about Jason, but he does not know Jason. He had never met him. And yet he spends the next several years until Jason’s return telling Dick that he thinks about Jason and what it means to be the third Robin every day. Jason might as well be fiction to him, existing in his mind, in legends, and in the ripples he left behind.)

#thinking. thinking. the way tim is so clumsy around them at first for lack of a better word. dick was weathering it so well. #for the most part #tim drake #dick grayson #batfam #jason todd #dc meta #batman: a lonely place of dying #+ the other comics I’m thinking of like the beginning of prodigal + Tim’s earliest interactions with Dick #bonds: I knew it was you #bonds: no one could forget you #heroesriseandfall #batbros #robin mantle

[dick-the3rd]

Tim meeting Alfred for the first time is so hilarious. The boy just keeps fangirling about every small thing in the house. "I don't want to cause any trouble" says he while playing the piano loudly

Both panels are from Batman (1940) #441

And even when Alfred loses his patience he still goes "you do have parents, don't you?"

Like. I just Know his mind is going 'please Lord, don't give us another black haired, blue eyed orphan boy, this household is not strong enough '

#batman (1940) #old comics #batman lpod #a lonely place of dying #tim drake #alfred pennyworth #missing alt #my panels