#robin (1993)

[chronicdelusionistsart]

Bernard Dowd & Tim Drake: Robin Analysis Masterpost

Oh god, I've made so many of these I need a central listing. Next I'm going to make a video essay or something. Help

Here's a list of posts I've made about Bernard Dowd and the Tim Drake x Bernard Dowd ship, usually about his appearances in Batman Urban Legends and Tim Drake: Robin! I'll throw a little descriptor in, too. They're sorted in (mostly) chronological order of posting. Hopefully these will be useful touchpoints for people looking to do fic or something????

Bernard Dowd and the Art of Recontextualization

A general overview of the writing sleight of hand used in Urban Legends and TD:R to characterize Bernard and reward rereading the run with a new eye.

The Continuity of Bernard Dowd

A more focused exploration of how Bernard's scenes in the 2000s, which didn't have much to them, were retroactively given depth because of the TD:R run's characterization choices.

"Does He Know, Chat?" - The Conflict of Timbern

After writing a lot about Just Bernard, I zoom out here to talk about how TD:R's central conflict revolves around both Tim and Bernard's perceptions and misunderstandings about each other, which takes a reread and the context that the run was prematurely cancelled to really understand.

The Conflict of Timbern: More Thoughts

I go a bit more into the signposting of the conflict in the post above and talk about how the narrative foreshadowing in the existing issues gives us hints of what was to be in the Timbern dynamic before the run was cancelled.

Bernard as Mirror to Early Tim

A shorter post pointing out a really cool aspect of Bernard's intro and subsequent characterization - that he mirrors the motivations of Tim in his original run origin story, but towards modern Tim himself.

[miggywebster]

Donna Troy and Dick Grayson in Justice League of America (2006) #50 and Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne in Robin (1993) #13

[unwellaugust]

A few days ago I asked where I started reading about Young Justice and some answers were Robin (1993). So, today I started. I'm still at the beginning, but enjoying. Was Tim Drake the most famous Robin or did Dick Grayson at that time still steal the show?

[kovacs-on-comics]

i think people should read a character’s solo(if they have one) before forming their opinion on them. why yes i am talking about tim drake how could you tell. anyway the 93 solo is fantastic and defining for robin as a character/title and i will not hear slander from frauds who can’t spend a few minutes on readcomicsonline

[sydney-sargent-superfan]

i don’t think people who don’t read comics/mostly read wfa understand how much of a dweeb tim drake actually is because he was supposed to be a Good Role Model For Tween Boys in the 90s. one time he found out his roommate at boarding school was an alcoholic so he poured all his alcohol down the drain instead of just ignoring it like a normal person. his girlfriend wanted to have sex with him and instead of just saying “i’m not ready” he launched into a monologue about how “making love is like opening a door” and he “isn’t ready to open that door yet” because they “might have adult feelings for each other, but [they’re] still just kids.” 90s tim was the type of kid to remind the teacher to assign homework. he somehow got mad bitches even though everyone highkey thought he was weird. in one panel of one issue he randomly said he had to be “vewwy quiet” and never spoke like that again. he canonically plays dungeons and dragons (or the fictional dc equivalent). the money his dad left him after he died wasn’t even a lot because his dad went bankrupt shortly before his death. like it was a substantial amount but not enough to make him rich. i cannot stress enough that tim was SUCH a Regular Guy TM and constantly worried about not standing out. he purposefully did bad at sports and pretended to be winded in gym class so people wouldn’t suspect anything. like he wouldn’t even try and be average, he would purposefully almost fail. he is not a cool rich skater kid guys he’s such a dork

[gnomewithalaptop]

ACHIEVEMENT: new Tim Drake descriptor unlocked

[hauntingrabbits]

....calendar man

(Heavily referenced off of some 1993 Robin panels/kind of a Tom Lyle style study)

[thesecretdcblog]

You're all goofy

[yyyeowza]

young justice if it was even funnier

Based on Young Justice 1998 #20

[veliya01]

Tim's clothes

The first two is based from Robin 1993 while the suit is from red Robin hence the hairstyles and clothing styles

[ohmygodshesinsane]

one of my fave things about tim (and robin 1993) is how much he’s just an average teenager really. like this is the horror of being grounded and having to mow the lawn without your airpods. rip

[tim-drake-scholar]

Dick Grayson being annoying is actually so important to me

[tinkerbitch69]

Caption from Robin #101

Why yes, Tim Drake, I will call you a spoiled, squeamish , bourgie white boy actually.

[dailytinies]

Robin (1993) #138

[thefairmaidenoffandom]

id, ego, and superego

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

In the middle of yet another stupidly long stephanie brown analysis post and I just needed to point out this real quick bc it kills me every time I see it:

That is not what you call your car Batman. “the Car”. Be real right now.

You call that shit the Batmobile, you should own it. Why are you lying to Stephanie Browns face like this. What a coward. He is terrified this 16 year old girl will call him lame.

Robin #87 (1993)