Red Hood and the Outlaws Rebirth #1
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scans_dailyThe Rebirth issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws features Jason Todd to the exclusion of the other two new members of the team; Bizarro and Artemis (The Amazon 90's replacement for Diana as Wonder Woman one) to create the "Slightly warped Trinity" team.
So whilst the equivalent Nightwing issue darts around the world with a speed allowable only when your mode of travel is a narration box, the Red Hood issue zips backwards and forwards in time, from Jason's early days to the present... so yes, this sort of does amount to yet another origin issue for Jason Todd.
In this iteration he's still the tyre-jacking street hood who tries to nab the wheels of the Batmobile and is caught in the act by Batman who, instead of handing him over to the cops, takes him out for a burger, and then they go chat and it ends with Batman asking him to give him a chance...
It's nice to see Jason being shown to be more than "the angry fighting Robin", but also a very sharp cookie.
The usual timline is presented; "Starts out strongly as Robin, growing anger issues, his murder at the hands of the Joker (Whose possible involvement in his origin (as was strongly hinted in the New 52) is never mentioned, thank the Lord) his resurrection by Lazarus Pit and further training from whichever shadowy organisation it was that the New 52 brought in.
We also see the present where the Red Hood arrives at a civic function on a motor bike, shoots a couple of cops and despite Batman's intervention, also shoots the Mayor. Batman is tazered by Jason, who then escapes.
Later Jason finds Bruce waiting for him in his new base of operations, which is hidden under GCPD HQ... which Bruce finds a little TOO clever (I think he's just jealous he never thought of it himself)
Of course, it turns out there's more going on than we know, Jason shot the cops with tranquilisers and the Mayor with the cure for a techno-organic virus that even Batman didn't know he'd been infected with (What, they've transplanted Warlock from the MU? The Techno-organic virus is HIS thing) and then....
So it seems Batman is going to excuse the various people Jason HAS murdered, mighty magnanimous of him, but I suppose the "No killing" rule is an interesting addition... of course, if Jason sticks to it, there's very little to distinguish him from Nightwing, but we'll see where it goes.
And then we get this cute little scene...
Awwww! :)
Look, Daddy-Bats is smiling in his first photo with his new Robin, which is as it should be.
(I know they've established that Jason is an avid reader, but the books here are a little.... on the nose. Machiavelli's The Prince and Sun Tzu's Art of War? Really?)
So whilst the equivalent Nightwing issue darts around the world with a speed allowable only when your mode of travel is a narration box, the Red Hood issue zips backwards and forwards in time, from Jason's early days to the present... so yes, this sort of does amount to yet another origin issue for Jason Todd.
In this iteration he's still the tyre-jacking street hood who tries to nab the wheels of the Batmobile and is caught in the act by Batman who, instead of handing him over to the cops, takes him out for a burger, and then they go chat and it ends with Batman asking him to give him a chance...
It's nice to see Jason being shown to be more than "the angry fighting Robin", but also a very sharp cookie.
The usual timline is presented; "Starts out strongly as Robin, growing anger issues, his murder at the hands of the Joker (Whose possible involvement in his origin (as was strongly hinted in the New 52) is never mentioned, thank the Lord) his resurrection by Lazarus Pit and further training from whichever shadowy organisation it was that the New 52 brought in.
We also see the present where the Red Hood arrives at a civic function on a motor bike, shoots a couple of cops and despite Batman's intervention, also shoots the Mayor. Batman is tazered by Jason, who then escapes.
Later Jason finds Bruce waiting for him in his new base of operations, which is hidden under GCPD HQ... which Bruce finds a little TOO clever (I think he's just jealous he never thought of it himself)
Of course, it turns out there's more going on than we know, Jason shot the cops with tranquilisers and the Mayor with the cure for a techno-organic virus that even Batman didn't know he'd been infected with (What, they've transplanted Warlock from the MU? The Techno-organic virus is HIS thing) and then....
So it seems Batman is going to excuse the various people Jason HAS murdered, mighty magnanimous of him, but I suppose the "No killing" rule is an interesting addition... of course, if Jason sticks to it, there's very little to distinguish him from Nightwing, but we'll see where it goes.
And then we get this cute little scene...
Awwww! :)
Look, Daddy-Bats is smiling in his first photo with his new Robin, which is as it should be.
(I know they've established that Jason is an avid reader, but the books here are a little.... on the nose. Machiavelli's The Prince and Sun Tzu's Art of War? Really?)
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Date: 2016-08-01 01:09 am (UTC)I do have an issue with this, though: isn't Red Hood already a known associate of Batman? If he is a KA, and if that didn't change post-Rebirth, any infiltration play Jason might make against Black Mask would be dead before it even begins.