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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

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I'm obsessed with him lol

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He really would sell JPV for an expired coupon huh

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Merry crimus from my favorites

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One of the really fun things about comics is that they are frequently written from the perspective of the character heading the title, which means characters who are just cameos in that story are shown from the perspective of how the main character relates to them, rather than an objective angle.

Azrael #31 has a stunning example of this.

The art design of this entire page is fantastic. Bruce is in shadow, seated on at throne before the Bat Computer, with Jean-Paul standing as a supplicant at the bottom of a long flight of stairs, his head level with Bruce's feet (and from the framing, it's even suggesting Jean-Paul might be kneeling). Alfred is in the shadows behind Bruce, like a minister or vizier, questioning Jean-Paul in a way that requires him to elaborate and explain.

It's framing the whole conversation around how it makes Jean-Paul feel.

If we were to see this same conversation flipped in Batman or Detective Comics, it's likely that Bruce and Jean-Paul would be standing beside each other by the computer, from Bruce's perspective. Or Bruce doing that thing where he sits and works at the computer and the person having the conversation with him stands behind his shoulder to talk.

But we're here with Jean-Paul, who is feeling inadequate and unworthy and like he can never measure up to Bruce's high standards. And so: supplicant before the throne. The knight begging for a quest to redeem himself, for honest work.

It's just such a fun thing that's basically exclusive to the way comics work as a shared universe.

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ink practise! - artbyhelenhe on instagram and X

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if you're wondering i did also get red robin last night and i have been watching him dance to this for like 10 minutes

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So many older or legacy DC characters have experience of either foster families, adoption, or kinship care. Like, the number of well known characters that do not live with, or were not raised with, their biological parents, or biological family, even for a bit, is extremely high.

And so DC constantly pushing biological children in modern comics is really jarring in comparison.

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Be like Robin: Beat up and spray paint your local Nazis today

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Barbara Gordon in Birds of Prey #022 (2025)

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Tim may not have a solo run right now but he did get the first fortnite skin so who's really winning?

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It’s shit being a superhero when you know that the multiverse exists. You spend all day saving people, you’re tired, you want to go to bed, and right before you fall asleep someone says “The High Evolutionary is going to turn everyone on earth into a werewolf!” and every bone in your body says “Fucking. Maybe we can be the werewolf dimension. The Universe Where Everyone Is A Werewolf. There are infinite dimensions where everyone isn’t a werewolf. It could be fine. It could be good even.”

And you fight the High Evolutionary and you win and your world isn’t the Werewolf Dimension. But the thought was there. God the thought was there

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He really would sell JPV for an expired coupon huh

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Dick has some. Er. Hostilities. To work through.

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Reading DC comics from back in the day and having other characters casually call up Oracle on the regular when they needed information is just making me sad man. Barbara Gordon used to be at the center of the goddamn universe. She used to be the go-to gal for everybody in the cape and cowl community. She was the glue that held the world together. The freaking JSA went to her whenever they were in a jam for christ's sake. Now what the hell does she have? She lost just as much as Cass and Stephanie did in the N52 if we're being honest.