Week of Wonder: "Carrie. Carrie Kelley. Robin."

[alicemacher]

A spotlight on one of the best things about The Dark Knight Returns: the first female Robin.






Batman's first encounter with the Mutant Leader does not go well.






















My assumption is that Bruce is wearing underwear in this scene. That's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it. :I



Bonus fun fact: The inspiration for Carrie was an early Jaime Hernandez pinup of his Love and Rockets character Maggie Chascarillo dressed as Robin. More here.

Comments

[owlbrigade1]

Carrie deserves to be a main continuity Robin. There, I said it.

[silverhammerman]

It's so weird that the New 52 version never really went anywhere. It really seemed like once she showed up the floodgates would open for playing around with some of the ideas from TDKR, but that just never happened.

You'd think that DC would want the publicity splash of making their mainline continuity more superficially resemble one of their most famous evergreen books.

[scorntx]

"Never really went anywhere" - pretty much all of the New 52 in a nutshell.

[owlbrigade1]

It is almost like it was a poorly thought out publicity stunt designed to give a short term sales boost but without any plan for handling the longer term consequences.

[zenfrodo]

The evergreen may have been buried in the horrific shitpile of TDKSA. "Catgirl". (shudder)

[thosefew]

For the longest time I read the word splint as spunt.

[icon_uk]

A great introduction!

[jkcarrier]

Carrie was one of the biggest influences on the "Sparky" character in my Lady Spectra comics: http://ladyspectra.thecomicseries.com/comics/249

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

Hell, yeah, Girl Scouts! 🍪