In case it seems like every third comic has Batman in it... you're not wrong. He's been in 38.6% of DC issues since 2020, with a stark increase of 8% each decade since the 90s and surpassing Superman in popularity. Despite this, there's been a massive drop off of comics where he is teamed up with Superman or a Robin (although the amount of group team ups between Batman Family members has increased, as well as Nightwing solos).
just imagine how stressed the jl would be after finding out that bruce has a biological son. he's batman, so of course, he's not going to get laid, right? then he introduces the new robin that acts and looks a lot like him and the jl malfunctions
Diana: So, he's not adopted?
Bruce: No, he's my son
Clark: How did you? How can you? How did this happen?
Hal: What Clark's trying to ask is, how did you get laid?
Clark: Especially with you brooding all the time
Bruce: It just happened
Diana: *Picks up Damian* He's quite cute
Damian, about to stab Diana: I am not cute
Diana, who is used to kids with a sword due to being raised on Themyscira: Oh and he's a warrior by heart
i have this thing where i involuntarily make really high pitched noises because i literally cannot help it. it's basically a vocal stim.
so now i'm imagining baby jay during his robin run who has little vocal stims that sound like a baby chick. he already looks like one with his yellow cape wrapped completely around him and only his little wide-eyed face poking out.
sometimes he gets so excited or worked up during patrol that he makes baby chick noises while hopping around and hiding in bruce's cape. it just happens, okay! bruce absolutely loves it-- he imagines his inner self just falling to his knees and clutching his heart because oh his little baby is so precious...
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bruce: robin, this is superman and wonder woman.
little jay who's so happy he can't form words: *squeaky baby chick noises*
i love love love the way you draw donna. tell me something important to you about her?
this is SUCH a sweet q ty anon so im gonna expand a lil on wondergirls as a whole
my intro to donna was actually after her death — one of the first comics i ever read was graduation day and tt03. her profound loss, her presence haunting the narrative, the literal space she was supposed to inhabit in the world, totally caught me off guard. reading back through her history portrayed a character made up of a million threads and holding onto herself for dear life. she’s a daughter, a god, a hero, a ghost. i think how she’s been recreated, resurrected from death, over and over again by the people who love her. how she changes shape and struggles to know herself. i think of her capacity for kindness.
i think about how wonder woman was born of clay in the hands of her mother who loved her, who endured violence in the world and still found hope in a future that her daughter would grow up into. i think about their desire for change.
my first (and only) cosplay as a child, before nonbinary entered the public lexicon and tomboyness was the acceptable excuse to like… have short hair, was as the first iteration of cassie sandsmark. idk i think that was so very important to me as a 13yo, especially compared to her look in tt03. how she was herself, she rejected any idea of what she should be. how she carried donna’s legacy into something else entirely. something more.
Superman's eyes glow a deadly red. He then takes his other hand and rips Jason’s Hood off, luckily the red domino he wears under it is lead lined, another basic Bat procedure. Superman's eyes narrow.
“What is your involvement here tonight?” Superman bites out.
Jason can’t respond, he can barely breath and his vision starts to blur and darken.
“Superman, we need to leave this area. The criminal spoke the truth when he said we are not welcome in Gotham. Let’s bring him in and we can also contact Batman and inform him of tonight's events.” Wonder Woman states.