Batman and Robin #25 preview

[sherkahn]

So the sons of Wayne don't always get along. Case in point.

ComicBookResources has the preview for Batman and Robin #25.

One behind the cut.





I love how Damien has finally been on the receiving end of a rant.

Not excited about the art, though. I see a LOT of influences, but no coherent vision.

Comments

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Ahh I love this preview. Scarlet is lovely, and Jason is really adding some extra irony to that time he said that *Dick* talks too much.

The art seems a hell of a lot better to me this time (more time to do it?), but that could be because I was already prepared for it (as opposed to last time).

[marco]

Lol, when did he say that? I almost wondered if he was going on and on just to bug them though.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Outsiders 44! "The problem with you, boy wonder- is that you never shut up!" ...pot kettle black, anyone? XD

And lol, yeah I think he was too. Harassing them with incessant chatter to relieve boredom sounds like something he'd do. :P

[icon_uk]

He finally has someone to talk to, so he's making the most of it.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Indeed! He just doesn't know how to make friends properly.. (hah)

[marco]

Lol, I need to read that~.

Definitely. At least he knows how to keep busy while grating everyone else's nerves though.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Yeah do! It was a nice cameo. :)

And hah, yeah. It's a talent really. ;)

[shadowpsykie]

heh i wonder how Damian feels having his OWN Damian:D

[rordulum]

Turn around and stab him in the neck, Damian. You know you want to.

[mercia]

Maybe this time he'll stay dead. (Let me have my hopes, please.)

[biod]

First of all I would like to express my undying love for that cover.
Secondly, I LIKE passive-agressive Red Hood. It's one of the few times Jason has endeared me.
Thirdly, that reference to his previous demise is both hilarious and painful.

[crinos]

Okay, THIS Red Hood I like.

[cypherfdp]

Ahaha Jason is such a Magnificent Asshole, I love it.

[don1138]

Motto. When they tried playing Jason as "the hero resisting the call" in 52, I was like, "so what?", but playing him as all of Bruce's passive-aggressive, manipulative bat-dickery incarnate, he's a lot of fun. Go Jason!

[shadowpsykie]

is tinypic not showing the images (headers and sides) for the com?

[keeva]

I think it's cute how Dick (and in character) is the only one wearing his seat belt.

[whitesycamore]

"You're Batman in your hovercraft, stinking like Christmas."

Hah, that's a sentence you'll never see in a foreign-language phrasebook.

I like most of this preview, but I think Winick is over doing it a bit with the banter. I like Jason subtly snarky, not... manic. Also, I'm puzzled as to why Jason thinks puberty might improve Damian - since it didn't do very much for *his* temperament. :D

[icon_uk]

No, MY hovercraft was full of eels.

[whitesycamore]

I knew someone would say something along those lines. And I also knew that someone would be you. ;)

[icon_uk]

Given S_D's track record for such things, I think I got in before the rush! :)

[kenwyn89]

The Monty Python boys, I presume if memory serves?

[icon_uk]

But of course! :)

[nezchan]

In fact, it was actually mine.

[perletwo]

Those text boxes on the Sasha page - do they mean she was "scared" inside and out or "scarred" inside and out? I guess it works either way, but "scarred" would make more sense to me, given the mask business.

[nickfury90]

Somebody needs to tell Winnick/the letterer how to spell "scarred" :/

[benicio127]

Oh good dear, the irony of this comment as zie spells Winick wrong xD

[nickfury90]

I guess that makes me as bad a writer as Judd Winick now.

I have reached a new creative lowpoint.

[benicio127]

Um, really? A little unnecessary.

[nickfury90]

You're right; I could be Jeph Loeb-tier.

[biod]

I feel Loeb is more Broken than Bad. Damn shame, too.

[benicio127]

Let's get back to focusing on the body of work and not the person(s).

[junipepper]

Yeah, it's the danger of over-reliance on the spell-check program... you know, a human proofreader would have caught that. Like we all did.

[whitesycamore]

I do love the ankle-on-knee posture though. And oh, Damian, he's not trying to disarm you, he's trying to bond. ♥

whilehe disarms you.

[heckfire]

So, Jason Todd is now Deadpool. Maybe the DCnU isn't such a bad id-no, it still sucks.

[whitesycamore]

Eh? This isn't DCnU. And Jason has always liked to intersperse a little levity amongst the brutal violence.

He's maybe a *bit* chattier here than usual.

[kenwyn89]

I figure he's chatty because whilst he is the black sheep of the family he still wants to communicate with them... even if it is winding up the bejeezus out of them. *Especially* as he's winding them up. it does provoke a reaction- stony silence counts completely. He seems smug too. Feels like he's got slight middle child syndrome.

[benicio127]

Yes, this!!

[anothermoviegeek]

I do believe it was Tim Drake conversing once to Dick about Damien being "Cousin Oliver" so Jason being Jan Brady is totally believeable (and yes, that makes Tim be Cindy a fact he admits)

[kenwyn89]

Which issue? (I love reading the bat boys bonding).

Alas, I have not seen the Brady Bunch being a British small town girl. I think I need to go see to match the comparison :P

[anothermoviegeek]

for the life of me I can not remember where that was. I think it was the second brady bunch reference as well about the bat boys.

[anothermoviegeek]

oooh, here it is.
http://lightedclouds.tumblr.com/post/3895642876/cousin-oliver-lmao-good-call-marcia-i

I am pretty sure this was part of Tim's "Hit List" story in Red Robin.

The other reference was earlier (I think) with Tim and Dick talking about Jason.

[anothermoviegeek]

the other reference was in the "Search For a Hero" run at the end of Tim's solo Robin book.

[kenwyn89]

Many thanks! :D that panel was great!

[benicio127]

Than usual? xD I don't think this is all that unusual!

[whitesycamore]

He's travelling in a pine-scented hovercraft, wearing a fancy motorcycle helmet and jodhpurs, trying to make friends withnettle his estranged acrobat/homunculus brothers.

So no, not actually that unusual for Jason I guess. :D

[celestialchild]

This is satisfying like a good fanfic. :D

[darkknightjrk]

...Let's just say I'm looking forward to how Lobdell will handle Jason in the Outlaws and leave it at that.

[fifthie]

"You're Batman in your hovercraft, stinking like Christmas" is easily in the top 100 all-time sentences.

[maxisanacorn]

Did Scarlet's doll mask fall off? I thought it did but it looks like it didn't...confused.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Really? Comparing her to the other woman, it looks like it's clearly fallen off to me... just left some scarring behind, like the dialogue says. :)

[benicio127]

I agree. With the art, it is hard to tell, but in this preview, it did look like this is her face and not the mask.

[eyz]

Scarlet's back! :D
Though, as everyone says, it's weird to have her back under that mask..or is that her actual face now? kinda strange...

And Jason works great with Batman!Dick & Robin!Damian :D

[blackruzsa]

This win does not know how to stop.

[marco]

I read that as 'the win' and thought, 'the Win', like, the Shat?
For a second I thought Winick had a new nickname that I missed.

[blackruzsa]

Oh no XD I am not clever enough to make up names for writers I know little of.

[marco]

Oh, lol. Well you strike me as clever enough, but I'll take your word for it. x'D
but I do agree with the original comment (still)~.

[sun_man]

wow this looks freaking terrible

[liara_shadowsong]

*gigglesnort* Oh, Jason...