Solo: Damion Scott - Cass and Tim... Of the Future!

[espanolbot]

Solo was a series that DC released that contained one-shot stories by a variety of artists, so from issue to issue the internal look of the thing changed massively. The trade is coming out in June.

Anyway, Damion Scott, co-creator of Cass Cain, got a couple of sections, both involving his character. Oddly though they were drawn in the style he picked up after he left her solo series... taking on a style that is kind of, er, different?

It takes place 15 years in the future, and Tim and Cass are a crimefighting duo, whose skills compliment each other more than if they were seperate.





Before Tim can tell Cass whatever it is that he has to say, they come across the cause of the gunfire, where the owner of a shop is in the middle of a gunfight with some criminals that robbed him and are trying to get away.

It turns out that Batman has been missing for some time, and that the shop keeper was one of several people who'd decided to take the law into their own hands. Unfortunately, in this case it came in the form of him shooting the younger of the robbers, who was unarmed, in the back as he was running away, which resulted in his friends shooting back at him.

Cass and Tim disarm the robbers and the shopkeeper and leave them for the cops, and continue their patrol, where Tim finally gets around to saying what was on his mind.





Kind of ironic considering where their relationship implictly ended up just prior to the Reboot.

Another story from solo that Scott did was, sadly, the second of only two crossovers between Cass and Steph when she was Robin. The story opens with Steph's training session with Cass being interupted by someone opening fire on her. Steph manages to evade the bullets for a while, but notices that Cass managed to get clocked in the head by the gunwoman, who turns out to be dressed in a cowgirl outfit.









OUCH considering what happened to Steph shortly after this.

Cass lands on another rooftop, where she meets the gunwoman. It seems that the two of them were friends from back when Cass was still being trained by her dad, and that Cass had asked her along to assist in training Steph on the basis that training that seems real is more likely to save her life than just practicing in Cass' gym. Cass thanks the cowgirl, and the two part ways on good terms.

Comments

[rdfox]

Now THOSE are damned good stories. (Even if I never really bought the whole Cass/Tim thing...)

[onceaskrull]

So fifteen years in the future, Tim is Batman and Cass is still Bat"girl". Ahem.

Yeah, I never shipped Tim/Cass, but I'm biased because I've always had a hard time of seeing Tim as straight (regardless of how. hard. they pushed in Red Robin, with almost every single female character that was of the right-ish age). I like it better than Tim/Cassie (Wonder Girl), so there's that. To each their own ships.

[jaybee3]

I liked Tim/Tam Fox but that was it (though maybe because I just liked Tam?). For a hormonal teenage boy Tim seemed totally uninterested in girls even when they were throwing themselves at him. The writers just seemed to ramp up the Chaste Hero trope to eleven as if he was some kind of shonen hero. Of course, that's not even going into his obsession with Superboy.

Now DC has just turned him into another "player" (perhaps they want him to be Dick Grayson 2.0?) which takes away one of his more distinctive characteristics.

[onceaskrull]

Oh, I liked Tam. I actually like Tim/Tam more than Tim/Steph, I was just disappointed (but not surprised) that they took the straight-as-straight-can-be route. I actually enjoyed Red Robin a lot, but it kind of got ridiculous after a while.

But I agree. I dropped Teen Titans waaay back so I can't really attest to Tim's current characterization, but if they are making him Dick Grayson 2.0 that's a little disappointing. There's more than one way to be a guy, even a bat-guy.

[akodo_rokku]

His current "playing" seems to be Trigon-influenced. Otherwise Tim has remained as chaste and mission-focused as ever.

The best part about Tim/Tam though is how fun it is to say. And how delicious!

[minervasolo]

I have tea, but no timtams to slam. No chocolately goodness for me :(

[q99]

-(regardless of how. hard. they pushed in Red Robin, with almost every single female character that was of the right-ish age)-

That actually is probably why it's easy to picture him as into guys- the girls always seem the one interested while he tends to be unsure at best ^^

[jaybee3]

I still have no idea what that hair was about (since she never exhibited it as Batgirl or Spoiler) and they really didn't give her anything to do (but get hired and fired) but I just loved the look of Steph!Robin. More distinctive than any of the black-haired boy Robins thats for sure.

[mrstatham]

I think it was more Scott's style than anything else that just led to how crazy Steph's hair looked. By the time he did the Robin issues with Steph as Robin, he'd gotten way more stylised than he had been on Batgirl, and here, he was even more stylised. It got to the point that I recall there being some criticism about his style with the Raven mini he did a couple of years back - although I think it's pretty stunning and unique, personally.

I'm not overly fond of Scott's voice for Steph, though I'm not really fond of anything that depicts her as being in need of real training from others, which seemed a few dozen steps back from how capable she could be, pre-War Games.

[lieut_kettch]

Wait... where their (Tim and Cass) relationship wound up prior to reboot. What do you mean?

*looks at icon*

Ooooooh yeah.

[zechs80]

And children is how Flashpoint REALLY happened.