Comments | withpins: "If I could walk on water, if I could tell you what’s next; I’d make you believe, make you forget.."

withpins

"If I could walk on water, if I could tell you what’s next; I’d make you believe, make you forget.."

Mar 28, 2010 23:17

…So, I gave in and read the last eight issues of Devin Grayson's run in one sitting. ( And it sort of took me a while to shut up about it. - Nightwing #71-117, plus excessive picspammage )

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isilweth March 29 2010, 04:46:04 UTC

*holds your hand* Jones is rather nightmarish after Devin and Dixon. I'm sorry. Jones' run is thankfully short and only one arc, but honestly I didn't care much for Wolfman's arc following it, either. You'll have to wait until Nicieza's Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul tie-ins and Tomasi's run before Nightwing gets decent again.

Also, I agree with pretty much everything you have to say about Devin's run except the Bruce/Dick stuff because (according to my bff) I am lame and have squicky issues. :)

withpins March 30 2010, 02:37:26 UTC

I honestly think rewriting it with Mad Libs with the assistance of Sims 2 avatars would actually result in a story more thoughtful, well-constructed, and faithful to established characterization. Man, were they scraping the barrel with this one.

I read Nightwing The Lost Year a while ago, and I remember being incredibly unimpressed with Wolfman's take on Dick's past. I'm actually pretty happy to see it quietly slipping out of continuity, and given that I really don't have high hopes for the rest of his run either.

LOL No, I know exactly what you mean. Having squicky issues with Bruce/Dick is completely acceptable, I think. As much as I ship it relentlessly, there's certainly enough troubling implications there that there are times I sort of wish I didn't. Heh

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withpins April 10 2010, 21:01:55 UTC

OMG, she thinks exactly the same things as I do about Dick!

Seriously! I’ve always read canon Dick as one of the most quintessentially bisexual characters that there is in comics, but we’ll never see it actually acknowledged beyond nodwink subtext just because it’s much safer in our hetero-normative society to siphon queerness over to the sidelines, and particularly onto characters without much other context in the story.

The concept of bisexuality is an especially difficult one for comics, I think, if only because it sort of necessitates imagining sexuality as something other than an easily quantifiable binary that we can identity and then dismiss when it becomes too threatening. I’m not sure I’m actually making sense here, but I hope you get what I mean.

their 'problems' seem to be a cavalcade of reasons that aren't really reasons, designed to keep them apart and keep the wangst train rolling.

Yeah, I’m actually with you on that aspect of Dick/Babs. It does make sense to me for them to have issues to begin with that would need ( ... )

strange_lydia March 29 2010, 15:29:10 UTC

come live with me! It'd be nice to have a vegan around ;) hahaha.

withpins April 10 2010, 21:05:02 UTC

Aww, you are precious! <3 It's so nice to be appreciated. :P

ewanspotter April 12 2010, 01:33:00 UTC

Who raped him?

... also, I kind of want to know, what happened to the table exactly?

withpins April 12 2010, 02:18:01 UTC

Oh gosh, it was pretty much the culmination of a long storyline in which a wannabe superhero developed a massive crush on Nightwing, and then spent months inserting herself into his life, isolating him from his girlfriend and family, and then eventually murdering his nemesis in front of him, while he did nothing to stop her because she'd already messed with his head so much. And then she took advantage of him while he was indisposed and inconsolable, all but right on top of the corpse. It was really pretty disgusting ( ... )