World's Finest Three: When Kon and Tim met for the first time

[sun_soraya]

mllesays asked for early interactions between Tim and Conner, so I'm posting a few pages from the World's Finest Three mini-series (1996), where they met for the first time.





What happened so far: Metallo got tired of destroying Metropolis and tries out Gotham for a change. Oh, and he stole a nuclear reactor. Unfortunately, Batman is out of town and Robin has to take care of a big, tank-like Metallo on his own, which - he fears - is a bit out of his league.







Poor Timmy... though Superboy is totally busy kissing "Miss Kryptonite"-contestants, he takes off to Gotham when he hears that Metallo is on the rampage there.
And as if all that isn't already trouble enough, Poison Ivy felt danger approaching the city, got sick, manipulated the meds taking care of her on their way to the hospital and is now running around freely.
In the meantime Tim tracked down Metallo...



(Ok, I admit that I only posted this scan because of the combination of metallic tentacles and a Robin. *cough*)
A~and Kon arrives!













Kon manages to destroy the currently blind Metallo, but brings the building down as well.













Time for Tim to pack out the kryptonite ring.

If there's interest, I could also post scans of the second part tomorrow.

Comments

[protogarrett]

There is interest.

Also, apparently, Con was an idiot back then. Becasue a woman in a costume coming out of nowhere is obviously a good thing where nothing bad can happen. Hormones or no, that's just stupid.

[nezchan]

Pretty much everything I've read of him from back then painted him as totally unlikeable. A dumb, superficial, arrogant glory hound.

Seems like a totally different character from the one running flying around now.

[jarodrussell]

Well, back then he was kind of glory hound. That was a pretty major part of his character's growth in his book, realizing there was more to being a hero than fame, fortune, and fawning fangirls. That was also kind of why he was fun.

You could equally say that back then Impulse was a spastic, selfish poster child for twitch gamers and you'd be right. Those books weren't about the destination, they were about the journey.

Then sometime around 2000, every aspect of being teenagers got wiped out except for emo. Now all you've got is a choice between the Teen Titan jerk squad and the Tiny Titan Death March of Happiness.

[ladymirth]

He was a stupid, wise-cracking jock, yes, but he was also real and he had real heart and warmth and adorable teen cockiness and none of this teen emo angst that Johns seems to think can supplant actual character. I loved the hell out of him in YJ (where he got some great organic character development and eventual maturity). When I saw what Johns had done to him in TT, I nearly got whiplash. Conner's grown on me since then, but I still can't reconcile emo!Conner Kent and the perky adorkable flirt that was Kon-El.

[jlbarnett]

what's so great about real when you're reading fiction? I've always found the idea that people will be the same no matter how different the situation is pretty ridiculous.

[ladymirth]

I meant real as in beliveable.

So by your logic, there's no such thing as OOC?

[jlbarnett]

not at all. I consider that consistency. When I say "the same" I'm talking about human beings from the DCU with visible gods, aliens living among them etc. etc. being the same as people in the real world.

[auggie18]

While he was pretty dumb, superficial, arrogant and glory hound-ish, he still managed to be likeable. I mean, most of his series was about the kid defining himself, coming to terms with the fact that it took more than the right genetics to be a hero.

Really, most of his jerkish tendencies were due to him not really getting stuff.

[icon_uk]

If you're near enough to notice Poison Ivy, you're probably already inhaling lungfuls of her pheremones.

[jarodrussell]

Especially considering Kon's invulnerability was directly tied to his tactile telekinesis back then. Unlike Superman, who's only affected by her pheromones when they're laced with Kryptonite, he's close enough to human that he's probably affected by them.

That, and he was kind of a horn dog.

(Wasn't this before his second Annual, when he got named Kon-El?)

[icon_uk]

I think it was quite some time before the naming.

[sun_soraya]

IIRC this mini was before the naming. I'm just so used to writing "Kon" that I wrote it automatically.

I kinda liked him being a horn dog, btw.

[halloweenjack]

Well, all you have to do is look at that splash panel where he's surrounded by the Sisterhood of the Low-Cut Top to figure out which head is in charge.