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for those wondering how bruce is doing: here

Met Joshua Williamson at NYCC during one of his signings! He said of all the characters he wants to protect the most at DC, it would be Damian because that’s his “baby boy” 🥺 Said he’s tired of people hurting Damian since he’s already gone through so much his whole life.

Asked him 2 questions!

What accent does Damian have?

Others have asked him but he doesn’t want to say, because he wants people to talk about it! He mentioned Damian has only lived in America for 4 years, and would naturally have an accent.

Who decided on Damian’s new hair?

Simone - Joshua said he didn’t notice it at first and then he was like “UMMM IT KINDA LOOKS LIKE TIM…”

He let it go because he thought about how Tim has had different hairstyles, and Damian is young and still growing.

DC January 2024 Solicitations - Comics Featuring Damian! 🦇

BATMAN AND ROBIN #5 1/9/24

Written by Joshua Williamson

Art and Cover by Simone Di Meo

Variant Covers: Kael Ngu (+B/W 1:50), Jorge Molina, Pete Woods (1:25)

BATMAN AND ROBIN ANNUAL 2024 1/30/24

Written by Joshua Williamson

Art and Cover by Howard Porter

Variant Covers: Dustin Nguyen, David Nakayama, Gleb Melnikov (1:25)

NIGHTWING #110 1/16/24

Written by Tom Taylor

Art and Cover by Sami Basri

Variant Covers: Dan Mora, Travis Moore, Ethan Young (1:25)

TRINITY SPECIAL #1 1/16/24

Written by Tom King

Art by Belén Ortega and Daniel Sampere

Variant Covers: Belén Ortega, Jorge Jimenez, Mitch Gerads (1:25), Evan "Doc" Shaner (1:50)

WONDER WOMAN #5 1/30/24

Written by Tom King

Art and Cover by Daniel Sampere and Tomeu Morey

Variant Covers: Leirix, Julian Totino Tedesco, Cris Delara (1:25), Daniel Sampere (+B/W 1:50)

Damian Wayne NYCC 2023 Remarks & Commissions!

Patrick Gleason

Jorge Jimenez

Dan Mora

Jorge Corona

Simone Di Meo

Dike Ruan

I'm sorry but can we please please please PRETTY PLEASE with a cherry on top talk about that comic where Ra's Al Ghul frames batman for his and Talias murders then they both joined the circus and Ra's does drug magic to make himself appear like a drawf and Talia put on a blonde wig and pretended to be a snake charmer and then batman just let Ra's burn to death in the name of getting pussy and justice

That comic was so bonkers.

Like what was his plan?

Why a fake murder? Why Talia?

Even the cover is bonkers.

By the way, if anyone says anything about Talia hurting Bruce we can tell them he killed her XD back in the day. And then we show them the cover.

God I think I'm gonna reread it to put on the other blog again because it is genuinely batshit, it was a plot going over like four comics and in the middle of some of them is an ark about the creep who shows up for the big fight at the end

I genuinely do not remember Ra's motive at all which means it was something really generic or he just didn't have one 😭

The most I can think about was that he did it to get out of jail because he had been there since I think the ionic original battle in the desert when Bruce got stung by a scorpion

It's his usual stupid motive, "I wanted to test him" or something like that

I like how his "tests" for becoming the Leader of the League of Assassins only involve the guys falling in love with Talia. Who wouldn't? Even Azrael said f this and inmmediatly said yes to Talia lol. Bane became obssessed with her and Bruce was literally going to stop being Batman. He even gave two shits about Dick when it comes to Talia. No wonder Dick still hates her over it XD

Tbf alot of the drama with dick was also about the fact that dick had just dropped out of uni I think, wasn't all Talias fault was more of a breaking point

Yeah that sounds like Ra's 💀

God old comics are so funny out of context, and in context

bruce’s identity potentially getting out entirely so he has no secret identity is soooo indicative of how little DC care about bruce wayne any more, like obvs it won’t last but the fact that they seem to be building up to a time in the main book where bruce has apparently no one in his life left from alfred to the batfam to no civilian life is just. ugh. I miss the real bruce wayne

It's so weird to me that everyone says that Talia just dropped off Damian and dipped immediately because that's absolutely not what happened

She introduced Damian and Bruce and then took Damian back for a while and he kind of flip flopped between being in Batman's life and even after Damian Wayne living with Dick she was still like actively there

how did the question of “how much Chinese is in talia’s ancestry” get altered so much, like we’re playing telephone? i just saw a post about Asian women in comics, and Talia was included there for being half Chinese. Firstly, she’s more like a quarter Chinese and I am 90% certain that information about her mother wasn’t in canon. Secondly, Talia is canonically Arab! Arab people live in Asia! It’s not MENA, it’s supposed to be SWANA (southwest asia north africa). The region of Arab countries is called West Asia, not the orientalist name of Middle East. Lastly, you guys realize that watering down Asia to just East/Southeast is inaccurate and harmful and reeks of a western outlook? Asia is HUGE, and there are many ethnicities within. Like south asian like me, west asian, central asian, hey guess what? we’re all the same race - Asian! Let’s get rid of this assumption of what the word Asian means please. Talia belonged on that list because she is Arab/West Asian.

The flip floppy-ness that so many writers give to Damian's character really pisses me off sometimes. Like. how are we supposed to perceive his growth if you keep changing him? He has obviously grown and has so much more to do and even more to explore concerning his character, but it feels like barely any writers scratch the surface of the literal goldmine here lol

I think the fighting ability element especially bothers me. One day he's portrayed as the person he was brought up as, a highly skilled combatant that can take down many people in a variety of the ways and then another he can barely lay a hit on anyone and someone else has to step in, usually in the case of him being haughty and getting humbled for some reason for the millionth time.

I love Damian SO dearly. I just wish more writers felt the same/actually understood him and his character. And I also wish they'd stop whitewashing him PLEASE!

The writers need to stop resetting he's character development and nerfing him simultaneously. He is a trained assassin, knows multiple martial arts and weapons and he's fucking knowledgeable. That was the whole thing in the beginning, he was an unknown Threat to the family. But he was also a Child and was somewhat easy to pressure and manipulate. Like desperate for approval and shit.

He was a smart-ass that knew what he was talking about but didn't understand social shit. And he was an heir to an organization whose intention was to rule the world and had access to magic. He can engineer shit and perform surgeries but God forbid he does anything by himself successfully these days.

He's deductive reasoning is so nonsensical at times that I have to assume it's lazy writing to drive the plot forward. I know he is impulsive but I think hes would still cautious about investigating stuff and fights. I mean he grew up in the league of assassins bro. He's arrogant not delusional. And if he didn't know then then he should know now after getting beat to hell and back so many times T°T

And personality wise he was a brat but he matured to be sassy. He is compassionate and shown time and time again that he has a high capacity for empathy. He still gets demonized.

How many times is he going to get humbled only to do it again. Like he can't even banter like the other Robin's without having consequences down the line

Idk I usually keep this in the tags and never post. Long ass rant sorry.

I agree with you is what I'm trying to say. I've been saying the same stuff to my brother since I joined this fandom lmao

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If Clark is kidnapped, he knows without having to ask that Bruce is going to hunt him down with the help of the entire Justice League. They’ll find him! He’ll be fine!

If Bruce is kidnapped, he’ll just sit there — maybe getting lightly tortured — and dread the arrival of all 17 of his kids, one angry Kryptonian without his emotional support human, Alfred having a RED moment, the Batcow, and all of the active JL members who don’t hate him right now (Hal Jordan will probably still come with, but he will complain the entire time)

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hate what people did to the dead dove tag

mothers and fuckers of the jury. "Dead dove: do not eat" is a label on a bag in the fridge. It means "the content of this bag is exactly what is labeled". It does not mean "trigger warning uhhh something". In fact, it means the exact opposite of "trigger warning uhhh something", because tou use it with other tags. You write a fucked up fic with extreme violence and gore, you tag it as "extreme violence", "gore" and you tag it with "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with emotional abuse, gaslighting and manipulation, you tag it with "emotional abuse", "gaslighting" and "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with your extremely niche kink that appeals to like 3 other people and may skeeve out the rest of the fandom, you tag that with your kink and "dead dove: do not eat". It's so people know you're really mean the content warnings.

It's NOT a catch-all term for "uhhh this may be fucked idk". TAG YOUR SHIT GENEROUSLY.

today on science twitter.......

an article about the incident. michael eisen is jewish and has israeli family and they fired him for "siding" with palestine

how is he supposed to know these things if no one tells him?

you don't get it. i miss batman. except not that batman, and not that guy's batman, and not that guy's batman, but this highly specific iteration of batman that coalesces after you're hundreds of batman comics deep and you figure out that everyone in your entire life has lied to you about batman this entire time. i miss that specific batman

i miss this batman from detective comics #457

i miss batman from legends of the dark knight #79

i miss batman from legends of the dark knight #67

i miss this highly specific sequence of panels from batman: black and white that is genuinely one of the best pages about the character anyone ever fucking wrote and i'm so fucking pissed no one ever doubled back to this shit

I MISS THIS STUPID CUTE SHIT FROM DETECTIVE COMICS #474

I MISS GOTHAM KNIGHTS #45

they did the, "what would happen if bruce wayne's parents never died?" story decades ago. they've done it again, and again, and again since then, but no one has ever done it half as fucking good as they did it in detective comics #500, and the hilarious thing is, it's not even the full issue, it's one story in an anniversary issue, and it is fundamentally the best batman story ever told. the singular best one. the whole gist is that phantom stranger appears to batman and is like hey, i found a universe where your parents didn't die, would you like the chance to save them? and batman of course says fuck yeah, carts in robin, and they go a-huntin, but the strange thing about this universe... is that it lacks, entirely, the concept of a hero. there's no greek heroes. there are no superheroes. you don't have achilles, perseus, or superman. there are no stories about heroes; it's a universe where "luke skywalker" a character concept is impossible to fathom.

and robin's the one who discovers that, and he's like, look, dude... you're this universe's last shot at a hero. if you stop your parents from dying, you'll never be batman, and there will never be a hero here, and in the narrow worldview of cape comics this is a Big Fuckin Deal, because then who is going to save all of those innocents? and naturally batman is like dude, fuck you, i'm gonna do it anyway. and then he goes and he saves his fuckin parents. but then you get:

he just becomes batman fucking anyway. because the whole fantasy of batman is that it is never wrong to save someone's life - even at the deep personal cost, this is fundamentally worth doing. batman's not bruce's Darker Side or this twisted alter ego that is a monument to his trauma and pain - it is the precise and exact opposite. it is the weaponization of something that terrified and scarred you (bats, violence, the night) and using it to help people, therefore this is the greatest batman story every fucking told, bar none.

and yet frank miller slaps his dick repeatedly on a typewriter and i'm supposed to think that's somehow better. but once you fucking know this is out there, people could just be writing about this goofy-yet-elegant character concept instead of trying repeatedly to beat the shit out of it and make it into something it isn't, once you fuckin know, you fuckin know forever. you have to spend the rest of your goddamn motherfucking life seeing batman stories that reach a mere fraction of, what, 10 pages published in the fucking 70s? you've had since the fucking 70s to do this shit better and you made it worse? what the fuck? you don't get it. i miss this highly specific version of batman, i don't miss that guy's batman, or that other guy's batman, or that other guy's batman, i miss this very one right here. i miss this fuckin guy

pov ur kon kent and all ur friends are pulling off red hair way better than u

From 2014.

Face it, Zionists. You’re losing the propaganda war, you can’t suppress the once dominant Jewish antizionist tradition anymore. We’ve been here just as long as you have and we’re not going away.

Thousands of Palestinians missing. Thousands. In fucking camps.

Dick: Dami. Damian no. Do not add a garrote to your costume—