Darwyn Cooke - New Frontier - The World's Finest meet for the first time

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...and remember that the World's Finest isn't two people, it's three.

The first time Superman met Batman, Batman was in full on "early days lone avenger" mode, terrifying everyone who saw him, whether they needed to be scared or not.

The second time though..

..things were a little different









I love Cooke's take on early Robin as an excitable, hyper little jumping bean in a cape.

And the Bruce/Clark conversation is spot on too.

Comments

[shadur]

That quiet little smile on Supe's face as he hears Robin gush in the second panel.

[jetpack_monkey]

I freaking love Dick's whole "hey Superman lookitwhatIcando" thing.

[icon_uk]

Dick should ALWAYS be a massive Superman fanboy, he would be "fun" uncle after all! :)

[bradygirl_12]

These pages are so perfect! Exactly how I envision that first meeting between Clark and Dick. Fanboying Superman is how it should be for our merry Robin. :)

I love the easy give-and-take between Clark and Bruce, too. A pity they didn't use that 'staging a fight' thing in the movie.

It's also a nice insight into Bruce's character that when he realized he was terrifying children with his Bat persona, he deliberately set out to tone that down, and his 'lost soul' made the perfect sidekick: joyful, enthusiastic, smiling. :)

[starwolf_oakley]

Seems odd, Dick calling Bruce "sir." Wonder if it is a holdover or something.

[locuatico]

I assumed it was something of the time period it was set in.

[timefire]

Well, they do call him the Dark Knight...

:P

[thedocyoshi]

I've said it once, I'll say it again. Taking Superman out of Dick Grayson's story line cripples his character.

Did they ever actually meet in the DCAU?

[icon_uk]

Now you ask, I realise that no, I don't think they ever did. Tim met Superman a time or two, but not Dick.

I like to think that when Tim disappeared in "Return of the Joker", the reason we didn't see Nightwing or Superman was that they were searching for him in Ra's and Penguins many offshore facilities and other international locations, so Bruce and Babs could focus on Gotham.

[lego_joker]

Cripples whose character?

[Standard rant about how putting Gotham and Metropolis in the same universe works to the benefit of neither Superman nor Batman, etc., etc.]

[thedocyoshi]

Dick Grayson's. Given he received most of his earlier development in a team book and every attempt to cover his transition to Nightwing in just Batman has never worked. Like in the DCAU he ended up a bigger loner than Bruce did. No thanks to a certain Embargo anyways.

Sure the shared universe aspect doesn't work for SOME characters. I felt like it worked for Dick Grayson. I think once your first major love interest was an alien princess there is no real point in trying to hide it.

Because Batman was always such a grounded series. With its plant controlling ladies, giant clay monsters and magical youth fountains.

[lego_joker]

My sticking point with the shared universe isn't the "grounded-ness" of Gotham, per se. You know what the "plant controlling ladies, giant clay monsters and magical youth fountains" all have in common? They're EVIL.

It's just my own opinion, but any explicit fantasy in Batman's world should make his crusade *harder*. Superman and the other JLAers, and even the TItans to an extent, are the exact opposite.