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Keep drawing this old Grayson these days

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PRE-ORACLE BARBARA GORDON READING GUIDE

aka a (mostly) pre-crisis batgirl reading guide! for the following comics: bolded is required reading, italicized is recommended, and everything else is optional.

[note: for the most part babs appears in the back-up "batgirl" story in each issue of detective comics!]

detective comics (1937) #359, 363

world's finest comics (1941) #169

detective comics (1937) #388-389, 392-393, 396-397, 400-401, 404-409, 410-411, 412-413, 416-417, 418-419, 420-421, 422-424

the superman family (1974) #171

the batman family (1975) #1, 3-7, 9-18, 20

detective comics (1937) #483, 484-489, 490, 491-495, 496, 497-499, 501-502, 505-506, 508-510, 512-513, 514-517, 518-519

crisis on infinite earths (1985) #4, 7

secret origins (1986) #20

batgirl special (1988)

and done! you could read batman: the killing joke (1988) here, but considering that babs is just there to get shot and assaulted for bruce and jim's manpain, i don't recommend it. instead read the batman chronicles (1995) #5 "oracle year one" if you want to see the birth of oracle!babs :)

[tag: @kara-zor-els ]

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Superfamily Powerpoint Presentation!

So, I made a presentation about the Superfam for a powerpoint night in a server I'm in, and I figured I'd share the slides here as well!

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Bruce & Cassandra 

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@jason-todd-week

Day 2: Wing AU

This was just an excuse to draw something based off Le génie du mal

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Batman animation yayy 🙌👍

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Tom Taylor may have made Bruce Nightwing, but at least Dick has a beard.

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I don't know why this came to mind, but I wish to remind everyone and myself that pre-reboot, Dick and Jason's age gap is similar to that of Tim and Damian's age gap.

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Some of y'all are the biggest 'pick me' fans ever. Y'all will be like "even though I'm a stan of Character A, Character B shouldn't be associated with them because Character A is such a loser in comparison"

Now, that's me paraphrasing some shit y'all say. You don't even like the character you claim to stan, you just want brownie points with fans you don't have the balls to cross off.

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Prince of Gotham

(heavily inspired by this post op if you see this, I didn't want to bother you 🙈)

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SPOILER ALERT!

I made a Stephanie Brown dress-up game!

All of her outfits and accessories are taken more or less directly from her many very stylish preboot outfits!

There are 5 outfits which when assembled will open 5 mini-games corresponding to that era/moment in her life. Winning a mini-game will add a new decoration to her room!

Besides that, there are tons of other cute wardrobe items you might want to mix and match, just for fun!

This is my first like big coding project so it might be a little janky (def having audio problems, unfortunately, you might be better off muting your volume) but I worked rly hard on it and hope people enjoy it!

Some images from the game below:

steph in her room / rooftop mini game

batarang toss minigame / sketching minigame (ft. @getthembees adorable doodles)

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I remember earlier this year I tried Jedi-mind tricking myself into believing this run would do something for Shiva's character lol.

It hasn't. Though, I don't think certain fans, while liking Shiva, are gonna care too much other than that it complicates things with Cassandra. I'm sure a lot of people appreciated the attempt to expand on Shiva's backgrounds, but its a bit of a disservice to her character pre-Cassandra. Then again, the og Batgirl run had issues like that too. I enjoyed the issues featuring Shiva in some ways (Batgirl #25 I really enjoyed! It showed so much for Cass's character) but yeah, this isn't great for Shiva's pre-Cassandra characterization. Which is understandable, since Cassandra has been a character for 26 years now! I suppose it is hard to balance out certain things without making big changes. Personally, I don't think its impossible.

My hot take is that Cassandra has done nothing for Lady Shiva's character other than diminish a lot of the aspects that originally made Lady Shiva really interesting. That's alright, because Cassandra is a character that is incredibly interesting and had a pretty solid (not perfect and without flaws) comic series (2000's Batgirl).

That being said, I stand by my previous musings that runs like this open up a possibility for characters like Lady Shiva to hopefully get their own mini-series (or even a one-shot) solely focused on them. Maybe it will happen one day, who's to say?

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The missing R and two Ds stand for Real Dick Down

Dick Gayson & Jason Thot send tweet

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Dick Gayson & Jason Thot send tweet

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Honestly, he did get more out of their relationship in comparison to what Kory got out of it 😭. They were very popular in their heyday in the 80s (after all, TNTT pretty much resurrected DC) and had a big revival with the Teen Titans cartoon, but yeah. On the scale of "are we benefitting equally in this relationship" Dick was definitely getting more out of it than Kory!

That's okay, relationships are complicated and no one should be on OP's ass about it 😭. Dick was an extremely intense and complicated character. Kory's storylines deserved more spotlighting with emphasis on her as a focal point, rather than as a device for Dick + other Titans' rumination.

I loved reading about Kory, Kom and R'yander (he's mostly in Omega Men rather than his short appearances in TNTT and that one time in the Supergirl comics which was lowkey random). I wish Starfire had a story focused on her where Dick only plays as a past reflection, the way Starfire often does in Dick's stories. It makes sense! This was a past part of each of their lives and both deserve to move beyond it. Dick has been allowed too, Starfire's character should be allowed to as well.

When Perez and Wolfman coined her as "Red Sonja in Space" I always hoped for her to one day have a solo story that would really play on that idea! I still do want to see Starfire outside of the context of the Titans and Dick. I want to see her doing her own thing!!

whenever dick is reflecting on his relationship w/ kory and he's like "she taught me to be emotionally open after me repressing my emotions so much with batman" I always feel like adding "And in return, I ignored her, condescended her, treated her like she needed to be restrained and there was something wrong with her and her culture and bitched at her to change but didn't actually end the relationship in any healthy manner"

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This is one of my fave comics that I own guys, the colors and line weights are gorgeous in its physical form. I truly miss this style of comic artistry. We can certainly have this while staying true to modern updates in costume and character design!

dick grayson by jerome k. moore

—edited from new teen titans #86