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“Jason is rash, impulsive and reckless!!”

Jason Todd:

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batman…..

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Duke Thomas Arbitrary Reading Lists

To celebrate Duke's birthday yesterday, here are some of my Duke reading recs grouped together by arbitrary categories!! Take these with a huge grain of salt I'm completely working off memory

Powers

The Cursed Wheel finale, found in All-Star Batman #9 (Duke's light powers awaken)

Dark Days: The Forge / Dark Days: The Casting (explanation of Elaine's meta gene and also Nth metal... idk I don't understand it)

Batman & The Signal (introduction of Gnomon)

Batman & The Outsiders (2019) (Duke's shadow powers awaken, which dampen his light powers)

Dark Nights: Death Metal Robin King (Duke unlocks his light powers again)

Batman Secret Files: The Signal (Duke unlocks more powers)

Thomas Family

Batman: Zero Year / Batman: Endgame

We Are Robin (you already know this is essential reading)

Batman (2011) #48 and #50

All-Star Batman #1-9 including Cursed Wheel back-ups (PEAK Doug & Elaine reading. read main stories alongside back-ups for the best experience)

Batman & The Signal

Batman: Secret Files: The Signal (Duke's mom disappears)

Batman: Urban Legends #8-9 and #18-19 (aftermath of Duke's mom's disappearance + rescuing her)

Romance

We Are Robin (Dizzy + polyWAR for your reading pleasure)

Batman (2016) #1-6 (in which Tom King replaces Duke's girlfriend of colour with a White love interest)

Batman & The Signal (Duke is back to dating Izzy! so. literally what was the point)

Batman Secret Files: The Signal

One-Shots Where Duke Barely or Doesn't Appear But Is Really Important To My Conception of Him

Batman (2011) #44 (a lovely issue about Bruce and Gotham. REALLY important imo to understanding Snyder's Duke-Bruce-Gotham triangle, even though he isn't even mentioned here)

Detective Comics #982 (only a Duke cameo but again SO important to that Duke-Bruce-Gotham triad)

Batman (2016) Annual #1 (the tiny Bruce-Duke moment is worth the entire thing)

The Robin-to-Signal Transition

Batman (2011) #50 (Bruce extends an offer)

Batman: Rebirth (Duke takes up the offer)

All-Star Batman #1-9 (Duke and Bruce get acclimated to each other)

Batman (2016) #1-6 (Duke and Bruce get acclimated to each other but it's written worse)

Batman & The Signal (Duke officially becomes the Signal)

Batman & The Outsiders (not actually related but you can - and I do - read Cass' Batgirl vs. Orphan struggles as analogous to Duke)

DC Rise of the Power Company (the only time Duke actually on page explores why he left Robin)

The Jason-Duke Supercut Or: The Indeterminability of Whether Duke Likes Jason

The Cursed Wheel Part 1 (Bruce says 'villain' and Duke asks 'Jason'?)

New Talent Showcase (2017) (Duke and Jason train together)

Batman (2016) #33 (Duke teases Jason, calls him "Jay")

Detective Comics #1000 (Duke teases Jason again)

Batman Secret Files: The Signal (Bruce tells Duke he failed Jason; presumably Duke has heard lots of negative things about Jason from Bruce)

DC Rise of the Power Company (Duke insults Jason while talking to Jace)

Duke One-Shots That Deserve More Love

Gotham Nights #8

Dark Nights Death Metal: Robin King

The Unexpected #4 (purely for the Duke-Helena interaction)

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #10

Duke One-Shots That Deserve More Hate

Batman (2016) #16

Detective Comics #1000

Batman Secret Files: The Signal

The Snyder Cut

Batman: Zero Year / Batman: Endgame

Batman & Robin Eternal

Batman: Superheavy

Batman: Rebirth

All-Star Batman

SCOTT SNYDER PLEASE WRITE DUKE AGAIN PLEAAAAASEEEE

My Personal Defining Issues and Runs For Duke's Batfam Relationships (For Jason See Above)

Bruce: Batman: Zero Year / Endgame / Superheavy, Batman: Rebirth, All-Star Batman, Batman & The Signal, Batman & The Outsiders, Batman Secret Files: The Signal (also see one-shots that influence my Duke conception above because they're all Bruce-Duke too)

Cass: Detective Comics #983-987, Batman & The Outsiders

Dick: Batman & Robin Eternal #4, Robin War, Night of the Monster Men

Damian: Robin War (I WISH THERE WAS MORE)

Jace: DC Rise of the Power Company, DC Power Company Recharged

Stephanie: Dark Nights Death Metal: Robin King, DC Power 2024, Batman: Urban Legends #3

Tim: Robin War, Dark Nights Death Metal: Robin King, Batman: Urban Legends #8-9

Kate: Detective Comics #952

(Any Batfam members not mentioned here don't have significant interactions with him; however, for Helena check out The Unexpected #4 and for Harper check out DC Power 2024)

OKAY that's about it!! Obviously these are my opinions, for a more extensive reading list check out @duketectivecomics list here. HAPPY DUKE READING!!! LET'S MAKE THIS YEAR DUKE THOMAS' YEAR!!!!

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Duke and Jason swapping out patrols.

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Where to start reading Bart Allen?

Let’s start with his first appearances in Flash vol.2 #92 up to #94

Flash vol.2 #95-100, 101, 105, 109-111, 112, 131-132, 139-141, 142, 145-149, 152-155, 157-159, 189, 198-200, 208, 210, 223-225, 227-230, 235, Annual #12

New Titans #0, 115-130, Annual #11

Impulse (especially #1, 2, 3, 9, 10-11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23-26, 52-53, 62-66, 74, 75, 77, 85)

Adventures of Superman #533

Young Justice (especially #1-2, 44-45, 53-55)

JLA: World Without Grown-ups #2

Graduation Day #1-3

Teen Titans vol.3 (especially #1-5, 19, 21)

Infinite Crisis (especially #4, 7)

Flash: The Fastest Man Alive

Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds

Final Crisis: Rogue’s Revenge

Blackest Night

Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost

Also check out Robin plus Impulse, Legends of the DC Universe #19 and Impulse: Bart saves the universe.

It should be noted that most people skip Flash: the fastest man alive because it wasnt a good series(and i’m being nice) but if you want to check it out

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Things I Wish Writers Would Explore More with Damian

-> His outstanding drawing skills.

-> The fact that he was apparently a "natural" at acting.

-> His love for animals. I DEMAND YOU BRING GOLIATH BACK YOU COWARDS.

-> Cheese Viking obsession or game geek side.

-> More missions/habits connected to his chinese/arab ethnicity.

-> His fascination in magic.

->His surgical skills.

->His love for literature. Give me more of that Batman #666 reciting pieces of literature (although I don't want him to be the next Batman in the future, I just like him reciting literature).

->How incredibly wise he is for his age.

->Explore the truama of his early childhood indoctrination and abuse. Damian has been through alot, I would like to see Damian dealing with that truama to make it more realistic.

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Looking at my files and found I have only crumbs of Steven art that's colored. :(

And one of them's this meme that made me sadder the longer I thought about it.

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Skibidi die.

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Happier days

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batboys for a secret santa!! they get a new brother for christmas :]

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(mob boss voice) so here's the deal, see. you's gonna go home and get a gooood night's sleep, see? and you's gonna have sweet dreams and a reaaal nice rest. reaaal nice. max here will tuck you in *i motion to the thuggish goon behind me and he approaches you with a warm glass of milk held gingerly in his enormous hand*

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"Dick Grayson is the mentally stable one of the Batfamily"

Ah yes, the same Dick Grayson who literally every time a particularly unpleasant event happens his most normal "coping method" is HALLUCINATIONS.

"Dick Grayson, the multiversal constant," yes, just like his hallucinations are Dick's constant in every freaking universe.

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batman calling dick, jason, tim and steph 'robin' to snap them out of panicky moods????? heartbreaking. I love it.

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Dick: So how long have you been doing this whole crime fighting thing?

Peter: Honestly, kinda lost track around the 90s but a long time.

Dick: That's rough. You got any back up like a team?

Peter: Nah. Been on several teams but none that stick. I like doing things on my own.

Dick: Any family?

Peter: Nope. My parents were CIA agents and killed by the Red Skull, the leader of Hydra, when I was young-

Dick: W-wait-

Peter: I was adopted by my aunt and uncle but when I got my powers, I let a robber go and that same robber killed my uncle-

Dick hearing aggressive running in the distance: Pete stop-

Peter: Yea and after being spider-man for a while I was hated by a news organization, was accused of killing my first girlfriend's dad-

*Aggressive running speeds up*

Dick: Pete, stop he is coming-

Peter: And then she died in my arms after I tried to catch her with a web but didn't factor in the momentum. And I have been non-stop struggling since.

*Aggressive running stops*

Dick: Oh no... he is here.

Peter: Who-

Bruce Wayne bursting through the wall holding a robin costume: SO, YOU'VE STRUGGLED ALL YOUR LIFE AND ARE, OR CLOSE TO BEING, AN ORPHAN??

Dick: PETE RUN!

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Dick, holding Wally’s hand while they lie in bed: God I love this bed. God I love this house. And you. Especially you.

Voice: How domestic.

Wally: God?

Damian in his Robin suit, holding his bleeding side: No. It’s me. May one of you please direct me to the nearest medical kit.

[Frantic scrambling]

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Velcro baby Damian