Red Hood and the Outlaws #8

[aubreys_master]

I post here...never. I don't think I've posted anything since I joined ages ago. I'm such a lurker. But I didn't see this scene posted yet, so I thought I'd do the honors. If I messed it up somehow, broke any rules, or missed these pages being posted somehow, please feel free to tell me and I'll do what I can to fix it. :)



Jason and co are in Gotham saving some kids at a hospital when Alfred sends out his distress signal, concerning the Night of the Owls stuff. Jason is about to leave when Roy points out that a lot of people are on the job already, but Tim picks up that Jason has intercepted their call. He asks Jason to stick around and help, and Kory -- Kori, whatever -- asks Jason if he knows Tim.

This lovely little flashback occurs.





I've wanted some nice brotherly love from Tim and Jason since he came back to life in 2005. I know a lot of people are put off by the reboot, but I think this made it worthwhile for me. (Although the idea of Alfred's cooking being anything but perfect is clearly absurd. :P And I don't like how Tim's being portrayed in Teen Titans... But that's a story for another day.)

Did anyone else love the idea of Tim and Jason being buds as much as I do?

Comments

[espanolbot]

Now, if this was the hypercompetant Tim we had from just before the reboot, he'd had drugged the pancakes so he could pack Jason back off to Arkham or Blackgate or where ever, like he did with Lady Shiva. 'Cause, you know, mass murderer and all. And he doesn't have the excuse of drugs like Cass did.

Evidently the severe beating that Jason gave Tim for "replacing" him over in Teen Titans and the outright attempt at MURDERING him via stabbing him in the chest with a batarang in Battle of the Cowl aren't canon anymore...

Not really the worst or least confusing of the mysterious erasures from Bat Continuity, despite the Editorial saying that it would remain intact like the Green Lantern comics.

At least it isn't just flat out confusing, like the butchering of the Black Mirror in the new Batgirl comics, or flat out insulting, like the removal of Steph and/or Cass' Batgirl tenures, who, by the way, have gone from "We have plans!" to "We have no plans for them, but we'd like to use them, but if we were it'd have to be in a big way and people above the creative process say they're off limits!".

At least that's what the mess of opinions of what the heck is going on with those two when questions were asked at Emerald City Con and C2E2.

[aubreys_master]

I never saw the Batarang thing in BftC as being a murder attempt, despite how valiantly Tony Daniel was apparently trying to discredit Jason as a character. I seem to recall Tim beating the crap out of him with a crowbar (of all things) around that moment. It was hardly the finest moment for either of them.

Are Cass and Steph not supposed to show back up in Batman Inc anymore?

[shadowpsykie]

can... we all just pretend BFtC never happened... that was utter and complete shit...

[espanolbot]

They were originally going to be appearing in it, but when Scott Snyder was asked about them at the convention last week, he basically said that they'd like to use them, but if they were going to use them, it would have been to be in a big way.

If I guess they could be appearing in Batman Inc in a cameo kind of way, a la Cass in that scene where she hijacked a Triad helicopter midflight, but in terms of appearing in the manner that Ms. Cain did in, say, Gates of Gotham... Yeah, probably not gonna happen for the forseeable future.

[whitesycamore]

And he doesn't have the excuse of drugs like Cass did.

Well, maybe they can hastily back-pedal and write one in for him just like they did for her.