Cass and Tim Having A Civil Discussion

[espanolbot]

Since the dreaded Robin: Wanted storyline is being posted at the moment, I thought that I'd post the last time that Cass Cain and Tim Drake spoke to each other prior to Infinite Crisis, OYL etc.

It takes place in the immediate aftermath of the Penguin, who was attempting to set up shop in Bludhaven to take over the void left by the death of the Nightwing villain Blockbuster, forcing Batgirl and Robin to fight for the amusement of an assembled group of local gangsters. The reason for him leaving Gotham is due to... errr... Black Mask over the city due to the whole War Games debacle.

Anyways, in order to throw off the betting in the fight, Tim shot Cass through the shoulder, and now he's having the courtesy of stitching the resulting bulletwound closed again.






And that's the last thing they say to each other until returned as a mouthy crazy woman with a magic flintlock pistol (it fires twice without reloading = it's magic, and possibly now owned by a behatted comicbook reviewer).

Personally I have the theory that the reason why Tim and Cass were moved to Bludhaven by the editorial was partially due to them thinking, "Hey, Black Mask is control of Gotham now right? Well he's already in a feud with Catwoman, and soon to be in one with the returned Jason Todd. Having him be King of Gotham whilst his most prominent victim's super-intelligent crimefighting boyfriend and her ex-assassin best friend are also knocking about with serious grudges would be stretching crediblity somewhat."

Comments

[icon_uk]

Any story where Batman's reaction to Tim losing his father and Steph is short order is to endorse him going to live by himself in BLUDHAVEN (?!?) has given up any chance of being anything other than a crappy idea.

The Penguin fight in particular was an arc so painful it hurt to read. Penguin has Robin and Batgirl captive, wrapped in about ten miles of duct tape and his great idea "Let's untie them so they can fight each other to amuse us, that can't POSSIBLY backfire, now can it?"

[zechs80]

It was the peer pressure that made him do it though. The gang lords wanted to see who'd win. In theory he did have a ton of thugs and super powered mercs at the mansion when he decided to untie them so.. in hindsight next time he should just shoot them.

[grazzt]

Is it just me, or does Tim's shirt seem sort of painted on? Like the penciller had drawn him shirtless, but someone objected so the inker and colourist added a shirt at the last minute.

[auggie18]

So... is this before Cass had that brief fling with Superboy? Because I know that that probably doesn't qualify him as her boyfriend, but it still should be counted.


I know I'm focusing on the wrong bit of these scans, but a lot of what I come here for is the gooey soap opera melodrama, so...

[zechs80]

Nah this was way after Cass/Kon fling.

[arilou_skiff]

That's... Some pretty heavy UST.

[venatosapiens]

Oh, so it's not just me.

[blackruzsa]

They even look like brother and sister.
Sweet moment :)