scans_daily: One of Tim's early career defining moments

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@ 2011-11-14 02:11 pm UTC

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char: bane, char: killer croc/waylon jones, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, creator: chuck dixon, creator: jim balent, creator: trevor mccarthy, genre: previews, title: detective comics, title: nightwing

One of Tim's early career defining moments

From fairly early in the Knightfall run, we have Tim vs a couple of the heavier hitters in Gotham for the first time.

I'm not normally a fan of Sam Kieth's style, but I love Tim's "I SO hate my life right now" expression.

7 and a bit pages from 22.

Whilst trailing Bane in an effort to find out more about him (Stalker!Tim to the fore again) Tim has been bushwacked by persons unknown (Guess who)

Jim Balent is guest penciller of this issue and I really like his style.

On the next page, the one who "pretended" to be Batman was Jean-Paul Valley (oh the irony). Oh and Bane's casual comment about how much easier it would have been to blind Tim is one of the more creepy moments Bane has had IMHO (But then, I'm squeamish about eyes)

Yay Tim!

He's blindfolded, with his hands tied, on a narrow brick walkway, in the middle of deafening water and he's STILL trying to fight. That's the proper Robin spirit!

Also have to say, if we have to have Croc as a monstrous beast, that's a "good" look for him.

Y'think Tim?

I'm not quite sure what move Tim is making in this next page, I can imagine what move he's TRYING for (trying to get his wrists in front of him, but I'm not sure the movements match. Still, Robins SHOULD be bendy...

This is also some good fight choreography here, you can FEEL those punches.

You almost have to admire Croc and Bane's dedication to trying to whale the crap of each other, even when they have what should count as other more pressing concerns.

And there we run out of page count, so let's just assume that they all lived happily ever after....

Trevor McCarthy has posted, on his twitter feed, a sample panel from his one-off issue of Nightwing, to be seen in #4.

He's certainly improved since his last run on the title, IMHO.

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	no subject brooms 2011-11-14 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	i don't read dc, are tim fans worried dc will off him in the near future? (he's still around, right? and he and fanfavorite damian don't get along?) i almost never hear this kid being mentioned when there's fan-talk about the bat family anymore. it's always damian this, nightwing that, jason todd whatever. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-11-14 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	Ummm... not remotely afraid of that happening, as Tim now known as Red Robin is the lead in the "Teen Titans" comic. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

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brooms
2011-11-14 10:45 pm UTC (link)

oic. i was just reading a discussion about the robins and what they mean to batman (with some hypothesizing dick's or alfred's death would drive bruce to kill), and ppl kept going on and on about dick being the perfect robin, jason being the fuck up robin and damian being THE SON.

and i was like... wait, isn't there ANOTHER of these kids? he sounded very afterthought-ish, the surplus robin.

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	no subject icon_uk 2011-11-14 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	Tim is usually depicted, especially over the past few years, as the Robin who is most fundamentally like Bruce in approach and outlook. He's primarily a detective and a strategic manipulator. He'll set long term plans into motion, and has contingency plans for his contingency plans, contingency plans. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

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starwolf_oakley
2011-11-15 12:43 am UTC (link)

He'll set long term plans into motion, and has contingency plans for his contingency plans, contingency plans.

But Tim *doesn't* have the whole "You can't trust people; they'll only hurt you, so you had better figure out a way to hurt them first" limitation that Bruce had going for so long.

Of course, with Superboy, Young Justice and the Teen Titians no longer in Tim's past, that could be VERY different now.

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icon_uk
2011-11-15 01:13 am UTC (link)

Tim does have problems with trust though, as some of his behaviour leading up to his Red Robin career attested. He was shutting out those who cared about him (Like Dick and Alfred) when he really needed to open up to them. (Of course what Morrison had Dick do to him by firing him as Robin and giving Damian the role without talking to him, is another matter)

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