More brotherly love from Nightwing #97
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scans_dailyI was organizing my comics today and one just fell open to this little moment of brother love so I had to share.
This is from War Games. Tim has been looking for Dick. He says he just wanted to ask his opinion on something. Dick gets all angsty about the worth of his opinion (he's in that downward Blockbuster spiral here), until the worst happens (he thinks)...
But then...
Dick doesn't tell him what "that" was. I love the wordless exchange before Tim starts talking again. Dick's despair is obvious to us readers, but Tim misses all of it, never guessing that Dick was sitting in a fire freaking out without oxygen because he thought Tim just died.
So you've got Dick not feeling like he's not able to be there for his little brother, but when he gets lost, Tim takes care of him. I like that he sticks the mask into his mouth for him and the obvious contrast of Tim looking down at Dick and Dick looking up at him before Tim helps him out. Tim probably assumes whatever went wrong was physical, that the tears are from the smoke, etc.
Also, Tim didn't really have a pressing need to talk to Dick. More like he just wanted to be with him, even if it was briefly. When it comes down to it, that's really what the Batfam gets from each other.
It's kind of ominous looking back at it, knowing that Tim kind of will be blown up soon after this, metaphorically. But still, best brothers ever!
Tags: title: nightwing, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, creator: mike lilly, creator: andy owens
This is from War Games. Tim has been looking for Dick. He says he just wanted to ask his opinion on something. Dick gets all angsty about the worth of his opinion (he's in that downward Blockbuster spiral here), until the worst happens (he thinks)...
But then...
Dick doesn't tell him what "that" was. I love the wordless exchange before Tim starts talking again. Dick's despair is obvious to us readers, but Tim misses all of it, never guessing that Dick was sitting in a fire freaking out without oxygen because he thought Tim just died.
So you've got Dick not feeling like he's not able to be there for his little brother, but when he gets lost, Tim takes care of him. I like that he sticks the mask into his mouth for him and the obvious contrast of Tim looking down at Dick and Dick looking up at him before Tim helps him out. Tim probably assumes whatever went wrong was physical, that the tears are from the smoke, etc.
Also, Tim didn't really have a pressing need to talk to Dick. More like he just wanted to be with him, even if it was briefly. When it comes down to it, that's really what the Batfam gets from each other.
It's kind of ominous looking back at it, knowing that Tim kind of will be blown up soon after this, metaphorically. But still, best brothers ever!
Tags: title: nightwing, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, creator: mike lilly, creator: andy owens
