Comments | glossing: [comics] more 'new earth' nuttiness

glossing

[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!".

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rubynye February 15 2007, 15:40:02 UTC

It's terrifying, but your analysis makes things ever so much better.

glossing February 15 2007, 15:41:12 UTC

...and, hey, Dick looks happy and sated, so there's that.

BUT STILL.

no_absolutes February 15 2007, 15:47:01 UTC

i don't understand. was i absent? did his heart grow two sizes that day? man, this is not gonna work. between Dick parading around like "the hills are alive..." in NW and all the Jason-bashing that's going on in Green Arrow, i don't know. maybe he's just sublimating all his tension about Jason.

glossing February 15 2007, 15:49:03 UTC

Jason's at least getting some playing in Outsiders, so there's that; I haven't read yesterday's GA.

I hope Bruce is sublimating what ought to be MASSIVE ISSUES re:young Mister Todd, but why is his behavior not freaking out Tim, at the very least? *confoundedface*

shrift February 15 2007, 15:51:23 UTC

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

glossing February 15 2007, 15:53:46 UTC

Tissue? Barf bag? Listerine?

I'm right there with you.

inlovewithnight February 15 2007, 15:53:29 UTC

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Um...

What?

Can Jason come beat him up now?

glossing February 15 2007, 15:55:26 UTC

Jason needs to deliver some good old fashioned PAIN on DadBot. Srsly.

And I'm pretty sure that Beechen's Tim, at least, would lend him a hand.

inlovewithnight February 15 2007, 16:01:25 UTC

The artwork is freaking me out, too. It's so...clean and bright and cartoony. This is Batman?

glossing February 15 2007, 16:03:56 UTC

Yeah, exactly. Williams' art in ROBIN and the last OUTSIDERS is brilliantly cartoony, but this stuff is...crappy, worthy of the early 90s cartoony. Notice how Dick's eyes don't even match up?