Bart drives the Batmobile in Teen Titans #9

[sun_soraya]

jelly_ace asked for "more Tim or more Kon or more of them both together", and if possible more funny than wangsty. I looked through the tags and noticed that Teen Titans #9 hasn't been posted yet, so I bring you:

- Bart driving the batmobile (TT #9)
- its equivalent, Bart flying the batplane (TT #50)
- one "Young Justice page" written by Todd Dezago (TT #50)





Teen Titans #9:







I love the batarang budget.






Teen Titans #50:














A~and this one:

Comments

[hatman]

The War Games ish showed Bruce making them himself in the cave. He had a machine that poured molten metal into a mold. Die casting, essentially. Except that he'd somehow rigged the machine to embed the homing circuitry at the same time. Of course, you have a point that there'd be further work to be done after that - the edges would have to be smoothed and sharpened, and yeah, possibly some testing. I wonder if that's part of Alfred's duties.

In any case, if they're made in-house (or in-cave), you don't have to worry about secrecy and paying for the testing. Cost to make would be the raw metal (probably not that much), energy to melt it (expensive, but they've also got a lot of other power-sucking equipment down there), maintenance on the equipment, and, of course, the time invested (which is time not spent actively fighting crime, living a non-costumed life, sleeping, or working on anything else).

It does add up, no question. I'm just not sure that I see it as being more expensive than, say, the Batmobile. It probably takes some kind of jet fuel or something more expensive than what you'd find at the gas station down the street, for one thing. Then there's maintenance. Custom parts, also built to tight tolerance. High wear and tear just from the way it's driven, never mind the damage it takes on a regular basis.

Then there are the various jets - the Batplane/Batwing, the cargo jets, etc. Also not cheap, though not used as frequently. And let's not forget the satellites. Though I guess the one-time expense of putting them up there doesn't count as an "operating cost." And, like I mentioned, the other equipment (custom body armor, made in absolute secrecy with all sorts of built-in gizmos) which also have a high rate of replacement. I dunno. Still doesn't seem like batarangs should top the list.

[arilou_skiff]

Might also be a fiscal definition: It's quite possible electronics et. al. simply aren't a part of the same budget.