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LET MY PEOPLE GO

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Jury Nullification: Your Power To Choose

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Naruto art !! it's been a while :)

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THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT

Hickman & Checchetto for the win

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HFIZBFIEBOFBDID

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What if boys were adopted since baby

except Damian.

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He was so serious about it

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this is his upgrade comparison

I love how he went from this robin to this babygirl

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BatDad and BatBaby.

Nightwing #100

by: Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, and Adriano Lucas

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Currently hyena laughing because you know at least one of Batman's kids spilled their smoothie on themselves when he pitched-and-rolled a little too fast and they would NOT stop complaining about the lack of cupholders. His kids are whiners, is what they are, and he's tired of hearing about it.

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Okay, hold on for a second, just hold on... You're telling me, that the nightmare magic that makes people live out their absolute WORST nightmares got a hold of Barry... and his worst nightmare is Wally getting hurt?!

I just- I need to sit down for a second. I can't see, it seems to be raining on my face.

This is the Dad™ of all time.

Barry is Dad. Look at that dad

Oh and see this? See how nightmare dream Jay says that Wally randomly 'slowed down' in the fight and that's why he got hurt? How much you want to bet that it'll end up being Barry that causes that? Either Wally-after-Barts-Death: Part 2 Electric Boogaloo where he'll blame himself for using too much speedforce and limiting how much the other could take, or this could potentially be Barry blaming himself for Wally's mental block.

Which would be very interesting because Jay specifies that this happened on 'his watch' in Keystone and Jay was injured. So it could be Barry manifesting his guilt for dying and leaving Wally on his own, because Wally operated in Keystone and was (semi) supervised by Jay. Barry could feel guilty that Jay should've been retired and shouldn't have been out in the field with Wally, and that Wally should've had a mentor that could keep up with him (aka Barry). Plus the fact that Wally went from keeping pace with Barry to barely breaking the speed of sound after Barry's death. It caused Wally a lot of trauma and pain and it was solely due to Wally watching Barry die.

(also Barry not being there when Wally got hurt is very telling. Wally got beaten to a pulp fairly frequently when he first started as the Flash and Barry was 'dead', completely unable to help)

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The other reason I think Red Robin 12 is a moment of trust between Tim and Dick is that Dick catches Tim.

Dick has a lot of issues with the concept of catching or failing to catch someone who is falling. It’s haunted his dreams.

(Nightwing #4)

It’s not so much the fall itself - Dick is fine with heights and with throwing himself off high places.

(Gotham Nights #10, Nightwing #140)

It’s about the fact he doesn’t make the catch.

One of my favourite bits of the Freefall storyline is Dick catching the Mother of Champions’ baby. Because it ties back to this fear of not getting there in time.

(Nightwing #6, Nightwing #146)

Nightwing catches the baby and is able to hand him to his mother. Wu Mei-Xin has never held any of her children before, it’s a lovely moment. It really caps off the growth Dick goes through over his solo.

(Nightwing #146)

And similarly, Dick being there to catch Tim is important imagery in their relationship.

Dick catches Tim when they’re playing around, train surfing:

(Nightwing #25)

Dick ‘catches’ Tim when he’s depressed. “You’re not catching me at a bad time”.

(Robin #156)

Dick is there to catch Tim as he falls apart after pouring out the water from the Lazarus pit.

(Nightwing #139)

And Dick is there to catch Tim as he falls from a building.

(Red Robin #12)

Dick’s grasp has never missed, when it’s Tim. It’s IMPORTANT to Dick that he make the catch for anyone, when they’re falling in front of him, but it’s especially important to him when it’s a child (and when it’s his baby brother).

Tim can honestly say to Dick “you’ll always be there for me” because a little part of him, deep inside, trusts that no matter what, no matter how impossible it might seem, Dick will be there to catch him.

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the amount of people in the replies saying “what career” lmao

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The closest I’ll probably get to political cartooning

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this interaction: a short analysis because i'm so insane about this

so first of all, i want to hit on the fact that dick and bruce have a thing for using names at certain points, taking off/keeping on masks during interactions etc that hold a lot of meaning to each other. a good example of this is batman #416, where dick and bruce argue about jason becoming robin. during this time, dick immediately takes off his mask and demands that bruce takes off his cowl as well. it's shown in a 3 panel sequence that bruce is hesitant, but takes it off as the argument becomes more personal and bruce becomes more vulnerable.

to dick, arguing with batman is different than arguing with bruce. he knows that bruce uses the cowl as a form of protection to not have to face emotional vulnerability. almost immediately after he takes it off, he becomes stoic at first, then angry, then admits the real reason he wanted a new partner (being that he missed dick). notice how he calls dick 'nightwing' during this, even without masks and cowls. he doesn't want to face the fact that dick isn't his partner anymore and is ashamed that he admitted it in the first place. he tries to shift the tone of the conversation back to professionalism (and fails) because of that. meanwhile, dick has been calling him 'bruce' throughout the whole thing, almost calling him out for that, but also because he wants the truth, which is personal to him.

anyway bringing this back to the panel from a lonely place of dying. jason has BEEN robin. jason has died already. his first response when he hears dick? "robin". after they had that whole conversation in batman #416 where he was able to keep the name nightwing fresh in his head. jason's death has put him so far out of focus that he's literally reverted to hearing dick and thinking of the name 'robin'... its so over for me. anyway i don't know if i worded half of that correctly enough to get my point across but these panels bring me so much pain

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at this point its on them for continuing to let him in the facists' clubhouse

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