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[comics] more 'new earth' nuttiness

Feb 15, 2007 10:21

I have to catch up on 52, but I'm pretty sure there hasn't been an issue that shows Bruce Wayne undergoing traumatic head injury and/or being replaced by DadBot 2000. Or possibly the earnest, dim, and very sweet Bruce in Te's One Bright Day in the Middle of the Night.

Fluffybunny!Bruce is all over the OYL issues and he is freaking me out. ( I read OYL so you don't have to, special Brucie edition [DetC 826-828, Nightwing 129 spoilers] )

dick grayson, comics, batman, tim drake, bruce wayne

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derryderrydown February 15 2007, 15:30:54 UTC

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Dear god, that's scary.

glossing February 15 2007, 15:35:35 UTC

Isn't it??

Remember that freaky conversation Batman has with Wally during IdC, about not knowing what to say to Tim, and Wally tells him to say what he said to Dick the day Dick joined the Titans? I WANT THAT BRUCE BACK.

huzzlewhat February 15 2007, 15:39:23 UTC

Oh, yes. I want my completely-failing-to-cope-on-an-emotional-level Bruce back. Who cares so very very much but who just. can't. deal. It's who he is.

I guess it all went wrong in that issue of "52" when he cast out all the negative demons. It's all been downhill from there. ;-)

glossing February 15 2007, 15:42:34 UTC

Who cares so very very much but who just. can't. deal. It's who he is.
Yes, it's totally who he is. *wails*

I didn't even include the scene in ROBIN when Tim moves into the Manor and Bruce is all "hey, is that the Clash? Kewl!".

tavella February 15 2007, 19:04:54 UTC

Well, as for that... with timeline rebooting, Bruce is actually the right age to have been a Clash fan as a young teen. Though I agree, it's hard to picture him as ever having noticed popular music.

glossing February 15 2007, 19:39:40 UTC

That's an excellent point on the timeline. (Oh, Bruce, stay 33 FOREVER.)

huzzlewhat February 15 2007, 21:28:00 UTC

You know, there's a moment in a JLA issue somewhere where Bruce quotes a hip-hop lyric and Kyle and Wally boggle until he explains that he knew it through research, because villains often leave clues based on lyrics. And that it's much easier with The Joker, who tends to stick to Cole Porter.

So, I figure Bruce knows the Clash through research, and was trying to get Tim to think he was cool. Little did he know that Tim was listening to it for research, too, and tried to pass it off for fun so that Bruce would think he was cool. Of course, if each of them would just come clean and admit that it was research, they'd immediately realize that no pretense was necessary for a sympathetic connection... because they're just equally that fucked up.

Heh.

Thank goodness for Judd Winick, who's still writing cranky, annoyed-at-the-world Bruce over in Green Arrow.

*gold star* glossing February 15 2007, 22:07:28 UTC

Best fanwank yet of 2007!

My favorite thing about the Bruce/Clash scene is that, consciously or not, the art echoes a scene when Bruce enters post-C!Jason's room, down to his weird jazzhands.

Judd Winick gets any number of valentines from me lately, totally. *hearts him hella much*

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