Dick Grayson And Cassandra Cain Make Pancakes

[superfangirl1]

Nightwing #106 backup story.

Writer
Michael Conrad

Artist
Serg Acuña



This is Cassandra first time making pancakes.

Comments

[john_drake1964]

The guy at the end there reminds me visually of one of the Joy Doctors from "We Happy Few" in terms of design.

[mastermahan]

Wayne Family Adventures is slowly creeping into canon and I am so here for it.

[lordultimus]

Girl grew up on the streets, she knows to savor every bite.

[iamrman]

I don't get why American media makes out having breakfast for dinner is such a big deal.

[full_metal_ox]

Particularly when Breakfast For Dinner (and vice versa) is a mainstay of American 24-hour restaurants like Denny’s and Waffle House. As well as people who keep other than 9-to-5 hours (Truckers. College students. Graveyard shift workers. Nocturnal adventurers.) And people who, for whatever reason, find themselves with only breakfast ingredients left in the pantry, and what’re you going to do (although with Bruce’s megabucks and live-in staff, Broke Cuisine’s not a consideration for the Batfamily.)

[icon_uk]

And I've never understood the concept of going out for breakfast AT ALL.

Breakfast is the meal I can be my absolute worst self. I don't need to be showered, dressed and ready for social interaction of any kind. I can slump in my chair in a worn out dressing gown, shovelling cereal into my mouth safe in the knowledge that no one will ever see me.

[cainofdreaming]

You give some of those good 'cakes to Haley too, or so help me...

[full_metal_ox]

And fling the burnt ones at the Peeping Tom; this is a household of elite martial artists.

[scorntx]

So many terrifying expressions...

[blues32]

Who's this guy? Looks kinda like the Penny Plunderer.

[cygnia]

Gettin' incel vibes off of him...

[cainofdreaming]

He looks kind of like a rat. So it all fits.

[full_metal_ox]

Gettin' incel vibes off of him...

In which case his line of thought (along with the blackmail/celebrity gossip intent) just writes itself: this buxmaxxed! Chad! is not only on breakfast-and-snuggles terms with a bonafide HB10 Stacy! but has suddenly picked up an anime waifu! HOW! DARE!! HE!!!

(And I’m sorry I know all that terminology.)

[shadur]

(And I’m sorry I know all that terminology.)

... And as morbidly curious as I suddenly am about the etymology I'm kind of glad I don't.

[icon_uk]

My icon speaks approximately 3,500 different languages and he still has no idea what you just said.

[full_metal_ox]

Lucky Doug, then. I picked up the lingo roadkill-gawking on We Hunted The Mammoth, a blog devoted to compiling and sporking bigotry in the media. (An MCU counterpart would probably cover mutantphobia as well as our familiar real-world -isms and -phobias. Assuming, of course, that David Futrelle and his commenters didn’t succumb to the trope that every last mundane human has to be a mutant-hater Because The Almighty Narrative Said So.)

Incellian-to-English translation: “This filthy-rich, strong, handsome, and athletic man has had access to the Archetypal Unattainable Hot Cheerleader we all yearned for in high school, a 10 on the Human Beauty scale—-and now he’s also got the sort of cute Asian girl we like to fetishize as a squeaky vacant-eyed anime character! (And that’s not FAIIIIIR!)”

[cygnia]

And sadly, I understood every reference...

[full_metal_ox]

Clearly you, too, have eavesdropped on the Inquisitors’ Council. (The stock joke is, “So what were you doing at the Devil’s Sabbath?”, but the Right has proven all too fond of hijacking the witch-hunt metaphor.)

[superfangirl1]

His name is “Mr. Hatch”. I think he just a character created for this story.

[shadur]

I love how unabashedly gleeful Cass is being here. More of this, please.

[leahandillyana]

Super cute!

[bradygirl_12]

Yum! 🥞🥞🥞

Ha, ha, Haley knows what she wants.

Buddy, Dick's got 'em comin' and goin'. ☺️

[blues32]

Really, Steff? That shirt? I mean, I guess no one is going to get it, but still. You don't need to include a snarky wink with your wardrobe.

So is Cass NOT covered in scars in this reality?

[superfangirl1]

Reading up on it on the subject on the internet. It seems the latest reboot of the DC universe, took away her previous past scars.

[full_metal_ox]

Really, Steff? That shirt? I mean, I guess no one is going to get it, but still. You don't need to include a snarky wink with your wardrobe.

And I’m hazarding a guess that Cass’s shirt is a tribute to—-and perhaps even a gift from—-Barbara. This is a woman for whom verbality at all has been a hard-won ten-miles-through-the-snow-uphill-both-ways accomplishment—-maybe literacy is a goal of hers?