One Last Romp with a Happy Tim

[manofbats.insanejournal.com]

This is from Batman: The Widening Gyre #3 by Kevin Smith from the Source.



Tis the season.





Now for some fun banter between Bruce and Tim.

Comments

[jasper_stars.insanejournal.com]

Last scan is SO much win. I like this Robin, he needs to stick around.

[bashzilla.insanejournal.com]

...ew

ewewew

EW

And, yes, Robin is awesome.

[thebigapricot.insanejournal.com]

I haven't been reading this but I will buy this just for the cover.

[manofbats.insanejournal.com]

I posted the variant cover as it is much better than the standard one.

Here is the standard cover.
(http://tinypic.com)

[jaybee3.insanejournal.com]

Dick I could understand making that comment but Tim? What does he know about girls? The only girl he's macked on in the last 2 years was his dead best friend's girlfriend who was only using him as a substitute. And judging by Batgirl, even Stephanie has a new love interest now.

[nevermore999.insanejournal.com]

She doesn't have a new one YET.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Cornelius Stirk looks pretty crappy when Norm Breyfogle isn't drawing him.

[punishermax.insanejournal.com]

Hahahaha, okay any villain who calls Batman accursed mountebank is alight by me.

[kingrockwell]

Interesting role-reversion with the bondage-Batman there.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Oh Stirk, Stirk, Stirk, will you NEVER learn. Tying up your Batclan captive in fairylights and ballgagging them is SO 2006, and it looked better on Robin... as most forms of tying up do. Plus stealing the Joker's gags (literally) is not going to make you his buddy in Arkham...

The Tim/Bruce teasing is indeed fun, but the thing is, I can see this sort of teasing being an example of the role reversal in the current Batman and Robin, just WAIT until Dick finds out Damian has a crush on Steph, the kid will NEVER hear the end of it, or better yet Babs! :) Of course we may never see it, but I'd like to!

[taggerung301.insanejournal.com]

Damian has a crush on Steph? Seriously?
Hahahaha, that's hilarious!

[retro_nouveau.insanejournal.com]

I also love the cover except there's strangely five Robins, and everyone knows there's only been four. Definitely getting a "which of these kids is not like the others, which of these kids just doesn't belong?" :)

Whoa, Tim - when's the last time that head met with some shampoo and water?

Spoiling nice fish! Give it to us raw and wriggling. You keep nasty chips.

[manofbats.insanejournal.com]

Dick is on the cover twice as his younger Robin self and then as Nightwing.

[benicio127.insanejournal.com]

The Tim/Bruce banter scene is just wildly OOC for me. And Tim, why do you have Dick's hair now?

So from the cover, does this mean Kevin Smith is going to take on Steph and Jason in this, too? Why do I get the feeling that Kevin Smith will either write Jason semi-well or basically like a huge pig?

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

The hair really struck me too!

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Keven Smith's dialogue always feels a little off for the bat-characters, but I can forgive him a hundred times for fun little moments like this.

[caeliluminar.insanejournal.com]

I can't believe this is what I pay attention to, but: what's up with Tim's hair?

[shadowvalkyrie.insanejournal.com]

It's unusual, but pretty!

[darthnat.insanejournal.com]

The art in this book is so bad. The perspective in the first panel of that last page is all kinds of fucked up.

[(Anonymous)]

How can the villain be annoyed at Batman not taking a bite of the food he's offered when he's got a ballgag in his mouth?

[manofbats.insanejournal.com]

Why are you looking for logic in the actions of a madman?

[sailorlibra.insanejournal.com]

OK, the Robins variant cover has icky art, but it also has Steph on it. Yay Steph!

[yaseen101.insanejournal.com]

Actually that's an improvement over the standard cover:


(http://img202.imageshack.us/i/zv7ss2.jpg/)

[auggie18.insanejournal.com]

Jeez. Tim. Barber.

Or, hell, Alfred. I bet he's the one who usually does the boys' hair anyway.

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

Okay, there's having longer hair, and then there's "Achy Breaky Heart" territory, and Tim is firmly in that territory here.

The last scan is pretty funny, though. :)

[manofbats.insanejournal.com]

Hair that dances on the border to mullet land seems to to be the style these days.

[mooppoom.insanejournal.com]

Did the many different Robins on the cover play into the story at all?

[lanternicity.insanejournal.com]

What? No ceiling Robin jokes? I'm disappointed, SD.

[jelly_ace.insanejournal.com]

Nice granny panties, Tim!

And Tim's hair kinda reminds me of nineties Dick hair on the first few issues of Nightwing. *Shrug*

They sure enjoy bondage themes.

[3goodtimes.insanejournal.com]

Kevin's Smith's writing is sometimes very much in his voice and not always in the characters' (maybe I notice that more because I hear him on his podcast so often). However, this issue seems to be an improvement on the last two. Still not willing to dish out cash for it. Yay torrents.

I like Tim's Nightwing hair.

[lyraeinne.insanejournal.com]

Man, that's not happy Tim, that's Dick. In what fantasy world has anything resembling this kid ever been Tim? Banter-ey heart-to-hearts are so not his thing.

That said though, the variant gives me chills.

[chipsnopotatoes.insanejournal.com]

what's he eating?

[lanternicity.insanejournal.com]

I think it's a kidney.

[dustbunny105.insanejournal.com]

The upper right panel of the last scans reminds me of that Japanese fanart with the tiny Batman. I really need to make sure I have that saved in my files...