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I LOVE THE DICHOTOMY OF THE COWL AGING DICK BUT THE BATSUIT IN ISOLATION HIGHLIGHTING HIS YOUTH

With cowl on: Pulling straight 40-year old man

But then Dick tugs it off to reveal the saddest, eternally teary face known to man.

So long as Dick can hide his face, he can maintain the facade of Batman. He is physically and intellectually capable of doing so. But as soon as you reveal the eyes, as soon as emotional vulnerability is possible, it immediately gives away how lost and unwell he is in the position.

(Note: it also it worth mentioning that this is not a single artstyle choice. The images above were pulled from a Rebirth comic, but the post-Final Crisis Dickbats run had the same dynamic.) See:

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nterror-blogReblogged i-m-snekanarchopuppyFollow"dont feed the trolls" is an even more important rule in an age where that troll is likely to be a chatbot trained on bad politics crawling tags specifically to waste ur time. do not engage32,0522,474
nterror-blogReblogged wwprice1dustinweaverFollowPredator Versus Punisher #2 cover (2026)This series was just announced at San Diego Comic Con, but this image they used in the announcement will actually be the cover for issue #2. It was originally drawn to be the cover of #1 but with this I was just getting warmed up. The cover I drew originally intended to be for #2 is being bumped up to #1.1764
nterror-blogReblogged camo-wolfvverisFollowConsider: Absolute Martian Manhunter in the Dashcon 2 ballpit720
nterror-blogRebloggedhood-exFollowBatman/Superman: World's Finest 2026 Annual82391,011
nterror-blogRebloggedrobs-your-robinsFollowJason leading the Teen Titans but he shoots them with a Nerf Gun every time they fuck up or annoy him. spicy-apple-pieIt’s all fun and games until he accidentally grabs his actual gun.Roy: you SHOT Lian? Jason: would it make you feel better to know it was a rubber bullet?92681,912
nterror-blogRebloggedthree-semicolonsFollowOne of my favorite schticks is Dick narrating some exchange between himself and Bruce and being able to see, from the panel, that he is completely downplaying it. Unfathomable levels of omission.He’s Bruce number one defender even when Bruce is wrecking his shit. That man cannot do wrong. Nuh uh. No way. Bruce? Never. A misunderstanding, it must be.599461
nterror-blogRebloggedelizabethzoopzoop986FollowThere are WAY to many Superboys in current comics so I made a helpful guide: fanveinJust coz I like to add unnecessary confusion, the main story universe is called earth 0 not earth 1 which is for the earth one series of booksNot to be confused with the original earth 1 which is the silver age setting and no longer exist becauseil it was destroyed in crisis on Infinite EarthsEarth 0 is also called prime earth, not to be confused with earth prime which is where Superboy prime came fromAnyway they use the name prime earth since earth prime, like the original earth 1, was destroyed in Crisis, and prime earth was created for new 52 where Superboy prime and earth prime didn't exist... until they decided to bring Superboy prime back 47185
nterror-blogRebloggedelizabethzoopzoop986FollowThere are WAY to many Superboys in current comics so I made a helpful guide: 47185
nterror-blogReblogged bowditchlittlefankingdomFollow~ Batman / Superman: World's Finest Really liked the three of them together in this issue. They really give the vibe thay they are good friends, and they are all competent heroes and smart in their own way, and they are also dumb together.Anyway, Bruce is being funny again. He is on a roll today.1114541
nterror-blogReblogged dccomicsbookshelfahsoka-in-a-hoodFollowApparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.ahsoka-in-a-hoodUm. Yikes9214,83818,838
nterror-blogReblogged lovesick-joeyplanetphoebeFollowa true dc comics fan will always speak ill of dc comics66141,412
nterror-blogRebloggedrobs-your-robinsFollowAnonymous asked:This is a stupid joke but it made me laugh when it popped into my head.You think the other bats/heroes ever tell Dick "Night, wing." Before going to bed? 😂robs-your-robins answered:Dick wants this to happen so much but none of the others pick it up. Then one night, he's laying in bed concussed and somebody snapchats him and its gone in 30secs so he's not sure did it happen.1396
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nterror-blogReblogged oneconfusedfeeshcrimebosscommunismFollowi know jason’s og handwriting in the comics was (most often, not exclusive to him) cursive cuz the dudes writing the comics back in the 80s were themselves products of 1960s american high school pedagogy and probably assumed cursive was still the compulsory default penmanship demanded of high schoolers everywhere (and maybe it was! idk!) but i like to hc that jason got into cursive less because of school demands and more because as a kid he used to like to pretend he was a character from his favorite books, just one golden ticket away from everything getting better. i like to think he’d practice his handwriting over and over again until it looked like something elizabeth bennet would’ve penned. crimebosscommunismhe also absolutely would’ve had several mental fanfics of all his favorite characters doing the most epic bullshit ever. hamlet but instead of drowning ophelia gets laser vision and fixes everything so well she gets crowned king and president and pope all at once. lord of the rings but they all have lightsabers. just utter indulgent kid-fantasy madness nterror-blogCan confirm, cursive was still taught in the 80's, but the demand that we should write in cursive went away just around that time. 41846
nterror-blogRebloggedcasscainmainlyFollowThe timeline of Cass' past 20 years is such a roller coaster 😭😭😭😭 like:2006: Batgirl (2000) ends. maybe there's something cool in store!!2006 (continued) : One Year Later character assassination kills all hopes and dreams2008: Batgirl: Redemption reinstates Cass as Batgirl!! and she's adopted!!! even if the run isn't great it's a net positive!!2009: Nvm Cass isn't Batgirl again haha 🫠2010: Cass in Hong Kong... 2011 (first half): Gates of Gotham brings Cass back to Gotham!!! YAY SHE CAN HAVE STORIES AGAIN!!!2011 (second half): New 52 erases her from existence 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠2012-2014: Hell on earth2015: CASS IS BACK!! Oh her backstory is different and worse. Oh she's Orphan. Oh.2016-19: Orphan era of variable quality but includes James Tynion IV and Bryan Hill making their displeasure about Cass' situation known :)2020: Shadow of the Batgirl YA novel released!!! A really good retelling!!! DC making Cass!Batgirl moves again...?2020 (continued): CASS BECOMES BATGIRL AGAIN!!!!!!2021: Batgirls released!! Oh she's written like a 14 year old. Oh her relationship with Babs still hasn't been reinstated. Oh.2023: Cass on Birds of Prey and appearing regularly in Detective Comics. Things are really looking up....2024: FIRST CASS ONGOING IN YEARS IS RELEASED!!2025: DC Finest: Batgirl is released, which is AWESOME, but still no omnibus even though fans have been clamoring... 2026: Cass solo still going, Cass showing up in Absolute, CASS' FIRST OMNIBUS ANNOUNCED 🥳🥳🥳🥳ANYWAY NEVER GIVE UP NEVER BACK DOWN!!!954199
nterror-blogRebloggedtoomanyf4ndoms77FollowTo me, Cass and Shiva would only refer to each other by name instead of “mother” or “daughter”, because that’s just more natural to them.If Cass is referring to Shiva as “mother” it’s usually a jab or she’s in a heightened emotional state. If Shiva is referring to Cass as daughter, it’s usually also a jab or some bit of condescending comment, or as a bit of “You’re my flesh and blood, get off the floor and fight.”28118
nterror-blogRebloggedreoricecakeFollowTim being comfortable coming out because he thought Dick had ages ago. Tim: *observing Dick being a little too close to Wally for a platonic friendship, and Bruce being very indifferent about this*Tim: (in his mind) Oh yeah he’s definitely gay. At least bisexual. Guess Bruce doesnt care.— (A couple years into the future, the whole batfam in one of their many living rooms)Tim: Hey, Bruce?Bruce: What’s up, chum?Tim: I just wanted to tell you that I will not go to patrol this saturday.Jason: *putting his book down*Dick: *leaning forward and focusing in on the conversation*Damian: *Pausing his hand that was petting Ace*Steph: *stops her scrolling and stares*Cass: *already knows*Bruce: *lowkey sweating*Bruce: Why?Tim: *not even looking up from his laptop*Tim: Hmm? Oh, I’m going out with my boyfriend.Jason: Hold up. Boyfriend?Tim: *raising an eyebrow*Tim: Yes?Dick: Wait wait wait. You didn’t even— you never told us!Tim: That I was bisexual?Steph: Tim, I think we would all remember you coming out.Damian: I do not recall you having told us such significant news.Tim: I mean, I guess I never really.Bruce: *clasping his hands together*Bruce: Did you.. think we wouldn’t accept you? Why tell us now?Tim: Wait, what? I knew you guys wouldn’t care.Dick: Wha— what do you mean? Tim: I mean, Dick’s out. No?Everyone: Jason: ..Dick, do you have something to tell us?Dick: I— what?The whole family goes into chaos as Dick tries to explain that all his male friendships are very platonic and Tim misunderstood, and Tim walks out, still texting his boyfriend. Not giving a damn about the situation he created. 71671,661
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nterror-blogReblogged vampykitty-kun2nightwingsgypsyrepFollowJason Todd, seeing the 30th meme on the Teen Titans discord server which uses unintelligible Gen Alpha slang to make fun of him: I used to be a crime lord.12109
nterror-blogReblogged batbabydamianckalaveramFollowHAPPY 20TH DAMIAN ANNIVERSARY ||hiding behind masks||7136728
nterror-blogRebloggedthree-semicolonsFollowMy brothers.Damian will return in Nightwing #143. Rejoice, I say. Rejoice.They yearn for each otherThey complete each otherThey’re GOOBERS togetherThey even. They even have the same smirk.MY BOYS.590617
nterror-blogReblogged starburstpaladin-96dianaof-themysciraFollowNightwing by George Pérez42109
nterror-blogRebloggedoifaaaFollowMy favourite office duo is the 20 something year old girl who is obsessed with k-pop and her 60 year old boss who sit next to each other and directly behind me as one talks about his grand kids and classic cars and the other explains photo cards and the fan club shes signed up for oifaaaUpdate on my favourite office duo the boss now has a mug that says "Worlds best work dad" and the girl just asked him "if he was turned into a snake and could unhinge his jaw what one person would he eat?" 1103547
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nterror-blogRebloggedlovesick-joeyFollowwe seriously CANNOT let that slidejoekitsuBatman and Green Lantern witnessing Superman eat radioactive waste while expanding like a cartoon character, burp and go back to normal like nothing happened: 111431,246
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nterror-blogReblogged bowditchbrucewayneseyeshadowFollowAlfred did not need to cook Bruce’s ass like that2069
nterror-blogReblogged sorryimnotdittosolarprominenceFollowI maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked upstoryweavingspiderThis was the mainstream feminist belief like. A decade ago. Thats how hard we’ve regressed within mainstream feminism and it’s mainly because of right wingers/radfems/TERFs deciding trans women need to die. 37432,01944,512
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nterror-blogRebloggedbat-raccoonzFollowJust had the silliest of thoughts and now Imma just post it without reading it twice 'casue I'm sick and haven't eaten in 14 hours.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [Batboys observing some gang]Jason: can't we just, drop down and stop them.Damian: we need the information, Todd, plus father has finaly un-benched me and I'm not letting you ruin that.Jason: yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. But like, Y.O.L.O. and all that.Damian: ...Dick: ...Tim: ...Duke: ...Jason: ...Jason: I can't really say that anymore, can I?242579
nterror-blogRebloggedbatsandbirdbrainsFollowJason: Just imagine. If he says yes, we’ll have an entire summer without Bruce.Dick: We could play outside.Jason: We could sit on the left side of the couch.Tim: I could use the bathroom at 8:20.All: …Damian: Your dreams are very small, aren’t they?241960
nterror-blogRebloggedrobs-your-robinsFollowDick, going through it, accused of all sorts, with Babs in jail, Bruce being weird, Kori left the planet, has nothing good going on in his life: I have to turn this into sonething useful. I need to stay busy and be helpful, give my skills to other heroes. Yes, that will make things better.Jason: S'up.Dick: Who- Who are they?Jason, glancing back at the half a dozen kids behind him: Oh yeah, them. I'm leading the Teen Titans now. I'm their mentor or whatever. Can you believe the Justice League okayed that? Dick: that's... great1185965
nterror-blogRebloggedpapayafromtvFollowcodependent league brothers Damian and Jason who are so used to being side-by-side and able to communicate 24/7 that living in different parts of Gotham after Damian is introduced to Bruce and Jason becomes the Red Hood is basically torture for them. they’re not within earshot of each other for the first time in over five years and. they don’t take to it well. they end up getting tiny bluetooth ear pieces to keep in one ear so that they can be in a call with each other all day every day without anybody getting suspicious, and it works really well. it’s certainly not an issue for Jason, who lives alone and isn’t really close enough to anybody else for them to notice if he seems to talk to himself on the regular. the issue, of course, is that Damian lives in the manor with the rest of the family. and it is a little hard for them not to notice their youngest talking to air all throughout the day. especially because Damian doesn’t even really hide it, he just keeps talking to nothing in front of them all and then telling them to mind their business when they ask what the fuck he’s talking about.~at breakfast~*the bats chilling at the dining table, eating food* Bruce, to Tim: so i got that meeting moved to Thursday, and we can talk to the board this afternoon about those plans you discussed with me last night.Tim: oh, cool. so i’ll come to your office at like, three i guess?Bruce: sounds good to me.Jason, in Damian’s ear as he grocery shops in Crime Alley: neat, there’s a three for two offer on that ice cream brand i like. i’ve been craving ice cream all weekend.Damian, not looking up from his cereal: you should try the new flavour they came out with, it has caramel in it.Jason: oooh, good shout,the rest of the table:Bruce: what was that, chum?Damian, glancing up at them: i wasn’t talking to you.Jason: so rude, interjecting themselves into our conversations like that. Damian: i know, right?Tim, baffled: …what the fuck is happening?Bruce decides that Damian must just have an imaginary friend or something, so he leaves it be. honestly, anything even remotely childlike Damian is willing to do in public is a massive step forward in Bruce’s eyes, so he’s pretty happy to pretend like nothing’s changed. he even takes part in the conversation sometimes, when he can pick up context simply from what Damian says and has something potentially helpful to add. confused but not willing to look a gift horse in the mouth, Damian occasionally ends up acting as a go-between while Bruce unknowingly has conversations with his dead son, which is weirdly healing for Jason even though Bruce has no idea what he’s really doing. ~Damian quietly drawing in the corner of Bruce’s office while Bruce works~Jason, in Damian’s ear, as he tries to fix a leak in his apartment: i don’t even understand where the water’s coming from- *grunt* i swear i turned off the valve! Damian, mildly: this is the third time your sink has broken, at this point just pay for a professional.Bruce: ?Jason: i’m not paying some shmuck to do something i can do myself perfectly well.Damian: except you can’t do it perfectly well, you’ve been trying to do it perfectly well for the past forty-five minutes and you haven’t even located where the leak is.Jason: shut up, i’m getting there.Bruce:Bruce, wants to bond with Damian and encourage his make-believe: *tentatively* try feeling along the p-trap with a paper towel…?Damian: *blinks over at him*Jason, can hear Bruce through Damian’s earpiece: it’s not the p-trap, i checked that. Damian: …it isn’t the p-trap. Bruce: then maybe put the plug in and fill the basin with water; it could be an issue with the drain strainer. Damian: Jason: ….hold on. *a minute later*Jason: ohhhh i got you, motherfucker! i got it! Damian: it was the drain strainer?Jason: it’s the drain strainer! tell B thanks.Damian: thank you, Father.Bruce, oddly proud of himself: no problem! you know if you’re interested in fixing things, Damian, i could always show you how to-Damian: i have no interest in mechanical endeavours whatsoever.Bruce:Bruce: alright then.Dick is a little concerned that Damian’s hallucinating or hearing voices at first, but he eventually subscribes to Bruce’s imaginary friend theory and responds pretty much in the same way. the only other theory that keeps cropping up is Tim’s theory, which develops after Damian doesn’t realise Tim’s in the same room as him and mid-debate about the best type of poison firmly refers to Jason by his full government name. this leads Tim to decide that Damian can commune with the dead, and is being haunted/followed around by the friendly ghost of the second Robin. Tim then becomes worried that he’s upset Jason’s ghost when he became Robin, and starts flitting about Damian nervously while trying to find out if there’s a way to make peace with Jason’s restless spirit.Damian goes with it because he thinks it’s funny.Tim: is it like- is it an unfinished business thing? is he trapped to this mortal realm with no way to pass on? do we need to help him???Damian, baffled:Jason, having the time of his life: tell him my ghost wants twenty dollars.Damian: *snorts*Tim, looking around frantically: what’d he say?!?!?!Damian: nothing.Jason: no, shut up, tell him i want twenty dollars.Damian: no, piss off.Tim: tell me!Damian: ….he says he wants twenty dollars.Tim: …why would a ghost want twenty dollars?Jason: to buy stuff from the ghost vending machine. obviously. Damian: ok. you’re an idiot.Tim: what’s he saying?*noise of water from the earpiece*Damian: …are you taking a fucking shower right now?Jason: what, ghosts cant have showers? listen- you gotta tell him that to get physical items into the spirit realm you have to burn them as sacrifice. we’re gonna get him to set all his shit on fire.Damian: why would you want everything to be set on fire?Jason: dunno. bored.Tim: he wants us to set stuff on fire? *slightly worried* …is he a vengeful ghost? Damian:Damian: why can’t you just be like Father and presume i’m simply a whimsical child? Tim: …?the family literally only finds out that Jason and Damian have been in a constant never-ending phone call when Jason finally ends up back with the family and joins them on a group patrol, and three minutes into being in the same vicinity Damian complains about the feedback-echo and digs the earpiece out. family patrol night rapidly devolves into a Gotham-wide screaming match as everybody indignantly tries to come to terms with the fact that Damian’s been fucking perma-skyping Jason for the past year and a half without telling them, while Jason delights in telling them all the stupid shit he’s heard through Damian’s earpiece while they haven’t known he’s listening. 132201,275
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nterror-blogReblogged officialbruciewaynesoranatusFollowQUEEN HIPPOLYTA, GENERAL PHILIPPUS, & PRINCESS DIANA In Warriors and a Wee Wonder (2025) #10 soranatus#wait wonder woman’s mom was gay.#IM JUST FINDING THIS OUT NOW?!!? WHAT?YEP!!!Every Amazon is canonically sapphic at DC! (Even Diana herself has been confined bi/pan in multiple runs and by multiple writers and yet DC has never made a formal acknowledgment of it)But specifically, Queen Hippolyta, who has always been Diana’s mother since she was created, IS in a relationship with Philippus, General of Themyscira Philippus was created in the 80s, and while they weren’t a couple for most of their history, they’ve always been extremely close. Them as a couple was the next logical step their relationship could take, and it was confirmed in the 2016 run! Since then, writers have made them a couple much more openly in multiple different runs, even to this day And now many writers have been portraying Philippus as Diana’s other mom who has helped raise her alongside Hippolyta. From a step-mom - to actively helping create Diana alongside Hippolyta and being one of Diana’s bio-moms! if you’d like to see these Amazon wives raising their daughter, I recommend the official webcomic, Warriors and a Wee Wonder, which follows their escapades and baby Diana’s magic shenanigans!132315
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