Re: I want to start reading Batman...
Also: Don't just toss around the word "gay". It's definitely been happening more often Lately.
I apologize. It was typed in haste.
Knights have Knight Apprentices. Training to be a Knight under the wing of the best and the brightest.
Too bad "Knight" is just a neat nickname comic readers call him and he's actually a vigilante who's trying to convince people he's a giant bat-like monster and would never, ever do anything so stupid as taking a teenager in brightly-coloured tights with him, because it would be extremely dangerous for the kid and blow his entire image.
Ah, well...
And Robin chose the role he took, and Bruce would have been a hypocrite to stop him. Bruce could have sent him out into the world like he had done, or trained the young kid himself. So he decided to train him.
There's a difference between training him in the Cave and bringing him along to fight the exact same goons he does on a nightly basis. Which no 5'1 inch teenager could do after a few months of training.
Jason and Tim were both around 16 when becoming Robins.
Tim was 13. As in probably pre-puberty muscular composition.
There's no way you can spin that to make it anything but absolutely ridicuous.
I'm fine with it. It can work. It can be stupid as hell, but it CAN work.
My problem is that, even when it works(which is rarely), it still automatically puts the character into a gear that I really don't like.
With Robin there, no matter how dark the story is, it's still just a story about a well-trained vigilante partnership, one of whom wears a Bat-like costume for
no reason at all because he's already displaying to everybody he's just a regular man by tagging a kid along with him.
The Batman wears the Bat-suit because he wants to make criminals think he's something other than human, some sort of monster. That's the way I like it. When Robin's there, all that goes out the window and he's just a very competent vigilante.
It's the same problem I have with the public meetings with Gordon and the rest of the force at crime scenes, where they just stand there and chat it up.
Dick - Tribute to his parents: He wears the colors they wore in their act. Pretty sure the panties were directly a part of the suit.
Jason - Tribute to Dick, also so that people wouldn't think there's a new robin.
Tim - Tradition... And then recently he changed the colors to a more sensical and much better looking Red and Black.
Yeah, I'm sure
Batman's gonna care about more about "tradition" than getting your *** shot off a building ledge because your bright red costume can been seen against a wall from two stories down and across the street.
The situation is different. The costume's silliness and uselessness remains the same.
Yep.
They did, just a few months ago it was mentioned earlier. But people didn't go an riot. most artist like to honor the past and the character. Look at Batman, he's not in all black even though that would make him more realistic, and he still has that underwear superheroes wear on the outside. It's called being classic.
Don't even get me started on how much I hate the blue/black and grey costume with the bright yellow belt.
