decided to draw the boys, Lonnie Machin is Jason’s best friend from when he was living in Crime Alley. He knows Batman’s secret identity and generally acts as a big brother and sort of a ground control/tech support to Jason’s Robin.
still experimenting with art style, here’s the family. Decided that Jason during his robin years deserves a friend, he’s Lonnie Machin (Anarky) another streetkid. There’s also Talia who is Bruce’s main love here.
I need people to understand that when bruce says Jason is his biggest failure he does not mean that Jason is a bad person and that Jason is a failure, he means that not saving Jason was his biggest failure, he means he failed Jason and he will spend the rest of his life regretting that
I know this, but sometimes even certain writers don’t. Which is why I’m kind of against DC using this phrase since it keeps getting misinterpreted by writers and readers, and because it shits on Jason’s character. It a badly overused quote.
jason couldn’t join the school theatre group stuff because of his robin commitments but he makes up for it by doing lots of dress up as robin, first as two-face and then as some funky little ghost~
(anyway jason should dress up as harvey again in task force z again for no reason other than that it would be fun callback and i think it could be funny, tfz writers i am politely requesting you steal the idea)
okay so obviously i know jason being batman’s son isn’t conditioned on him being robin and all that, but i mean the editorial decision to have post-crisis jason call bruce “mr wayne” until he finishes a mission as robin and bruce tells him he did well is…
Lol I never noticed this detail, this means that Jason called him “Mr. Wayne” for more than a year
Jason was trained for a year until he was good enough to be out in the field, I think this panel takes place after Jason’s first mission as Robin and Bruce finally tells him it’s ok that he could use his first name…
Does this mean that Bruce wanted to see if he could be a good Robin first to be able to call him by his first name and keep him around, or the writer didn’t realize what they wrote? Am I reading too much into it? Maybe. It’s not a good look for Bruce either way lol
During this period, Bruce has some questionable(?) morals and I wouldn’t be surprised if my theory is possible honestly ♀️
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