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let him sleep well!!

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Winter soldier & Cap tsum

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Sebastian Stan | 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California | March 02, 2025 | 📷 Michael Fisher

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watched the thunderbolts movie and i now have a new character to obsess over, been reading every comic i could find

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Posing and muscle practice with Jaybird 💖

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SEBASTIAN STAN | L’Officiel Malaysia 2025

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Jason's day off

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☀️🌑☀️

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typical Authority workday

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He’s a ghost.

Winter Soldier reminded me that I fucking love comics.

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World’s finest

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James Buchanan Barnes: Unconventional Hero.

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I know I don’t post on here that much these days, but I have Jason Todd related thoughts, and need to preserve them in a concise format, which twitter isn’t very good for. Though it’s less a thought and more a theory.

Jason died again at the end of Under the Red Hood, and I have proof.

So, I’ve had this as a headcanon for a while because, well, let’s look at the sequence of events at the end of the UTRH comic; Bruce slits Jason’s throat with the batarang, and then the building blows up. There’s no way someone should be able to survive that. But that’s not really proof is it? It’s a comic after all, people survive incredible things all the time, and the only way we know someone is dead is by seeing them dead. But beyond that, let’s look at the final page in the trade paperback, when the building blows, which is what really committed me to this headcanon.

Notice that particle effect? That’s the same effect we see in Batman Annual #25 when Jason is resurrected in coffin; therefore, you could very easily theorise that Jason is being resurrected once more here, hence the repetition. But I was still reluctant to categorise this as any more than a headcanon; until I read through the original monthly version of Batman #650, which includes an extra page not included in the trade paperback. This page.

Bruce, modern Bruce in his all-black outfit, on his knees, mourning Jason, surrounded by echoes of other Bruce’s from different timelines (this happened when Infinite Crisis was happening btw). That isn’t meant to be Bruce in Ethiopia (we can see 80s Bruce in the background in his grey and blue outfit). That’s Bruce in the rubble on Crime Alley.

And look at that textbox, ‘We’ve been here before’.

How else is one supposed to read that? Clearly, the intention here was that Jason died once more, Bruce failed him once more, and was reliving that grief all over again. Furthermore, that swirly Infinite Crisis void offers a possible explanation behind his second resurrection; in Batman Annual #25 the narrator says that Jason was never supposed to die in Ethiopia and his resurrection was a cosmic correction of sorts. But what if the Superboy Prime Reality Punch over-corrected? Jason was never meant to die, so now he never can.

That latter bit is just my speculation, trying to offer an explanation based on the evidence, but as for the main idea of Jason dying again at the end of UTRH? I think it’s well past the point of mere speculation. Because I say again, tell me, how else are you supposed to interpret that final page? What else could it be implying? And the fact that it was cut from the trade paperback speaks volumes. Because UTRH ended up not being a one-and-done, and Jason ended up becoming a recurring character, they wanted to bury his second death and pretend it never happened. And since the One Year Later timeskip happened, it was very easy to do just that. They never touched on the fallout so just… ignore that it happened.

But it clearly did, and I’m in pain. Bruce and Jason’s relationship is just a sea of tragedy, isn’t it? Death follows them everywhere, and they keep losing each other, both literally and metaphorically.

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happy pride here’s a collection of my favorite stuckys from the past year xoxo

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Superbat commission

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I love this piece so much 😩 of course I took a picture of myself to have reference for hands, who do you think I am