Batman #07 - now with Dick

[sherkahn]

Dick Grayson (the birthday boy), that is.

Prelude to the Batman arc "Night of the Owls".

With revelations about who the Bat-clan is facing.
*SPOILERS BEHIND THE CUT*



Batman is saved by someone (sorry, I know it is someone we have met before, but I don't recognize) with battery jumper cables, and a wounded Batman makes his way through the sewers to one of the satellite Bat-caves. Of course, Batman's Batman finds him and takes him in, and the Bat does what he does best.

Prepare to engage the enemy with tons of prep and research to kick their butt.

Nightwing comes down to the Batcave as Bruce is doing an autopsy.
Bruce wanted to keep some info close to the vest, but with this and new revelations from the Nightwing book, the deeper threat and danger comes to light.


A Wolverine healing factor? Not regeneration ability?
Wow....



Of course this is just one shoe to drop. Dick knows Bruce is still holding out on him, and starts pushing buttons to get the truth out of him, since everyone has been worried for some time now as Bruce was in the maze of the Owls.

Of course Bruce responds the only way he knows how.


It's not like Bruce is going to get that with his tongue, now is he?
After knowing Robin so intimately for all these years, Batman, how could you have missed that?

All those talented people who have died in Haly's Circus (Grayson's family) and previous versions of said circus over the centuries... that's who Batman is fighting.


Meanwhile, the Court activates ALL of their Talons, and they take flight prepare to take over Gotham.

Comments

[whitesycamore]

No. He is Batman, and he must thwack the teeth out of his beautiful boy children. To do otherwise would be sentimental.

Have I mentioned how tired I am of callous, stonefaced drill sergeant Bruce?

[icon_uk]

Thing is I can see WHY he did it, just not the WAY he did it. An X-ray would have been a good idea to make sure that it was the same tooth on different Talons/proto-Talons, then perhaps some novocaine, the tooth has been in Dick's mouth for lord knows how many years , I doubt another hour or two are going to be an issue.

[whitesycamore]

But would that have been as BADASS as performing impromptu dental surgery with his fists?!

The answer is yes, and also it would not have made him look an inhumane freakshow.

[junkurosu]

*while wearing a Robin costume* Dr. Batman! I need to get my wisdom teeth out!

PUNCH!

*wisdom teeth pop out!*

Thanks old chum!

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Hey, it works for Dr.McNinja!

[sistermagpie]

Let's face it, the reason he didn't do it was because one or two hours ruins the dramatic reveal of Bruce holding up the tooth in Dick's face.. They just don't seem to mind that he looks like a psycho doing it.

And frankly, this sort of violence doesn't make sense for badass Bruce. Why would you want your team going out with injuries?

[darkknightjrk]

One could probably argue that since Dick was already thinking that Bruce was having a paranoid period he might not have agreed to do anything else.