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scans_dailyI first posted this back in my fairly early days on the community, and it is re-posted largely to highlight the pretty Estrada and Giordano art, who draw a damned cute Robin, and a classic Batman and Superman... as well as a very, VERY camp villain, and some rather over-amorous dwarves... I mean, what IS he doing to Robin's leg there?
Quite a few images under the cut. It's a fifteen page story, so I've trimmed it down from it's original posting to what seems to be about five pages in total, but if it seems too large, I'll trim some images out.
Yeah kid, way to get the grown ups attention; “You may be fighting for your lives whilst I’m floating here without anyone attacking me, but dammit I need some acknowledgement”
Okay, Robin is clearly being pulled underground by something here, if imagining it might be by clinging, probing (and possibly naughty) tentacles gives you a happy feeling, well, you just go with that, it is te weekend after all.
We start with Bruce dreaming about Dick… I mean Robin I mean…. Oh heck, let’s just get all the smutty puns out of our minds at the start. Bruce having a precognitive dream about Jason here? Nope, it’s Dick all right, and it’s just Bruce dreaming about his ward… nope no subtext there at all, business as usual in the Dark Knights subconscious. At least he cares enough to plan on calling Dick, but not immediately as it would make him appear less macho.
Meanwhile... here we see a refreshingly retro (or very new) bunch of bank robbers in Metropolis trying to get away on foot. Their naivete is almost sweet. Then we have a moment which should by rights be followed by Chandler appearing in the background and optimistically shouting “And I wish for a million dollars!”, but this predates Friends by ten years.
Now Superman starts having visions of Robin, this time seeing his reflection in a fountain. Could this be the start of repressed super-jealousy?
And in an even MORE retro moment, we get a non-costumed Gotham cat burglar wearing a good old-fashioned domino mask (a shame he’s not wearing a striped jumper and a bag marked “Swag”). When was the last time we saw that? Actually I don’t think I’ve seen it since either… Now Batman sees the thief’s head turn into Robin’s face then his head bursts into flame, which probably has some Freudian interpretation I’d rather not dwell on.
Superman shows up and explains that he has had not one but two experiences, as he saw a perfectly formed Robin R in the clouds… Personally I just think he’s finally succumbing to the sex waves which Dick Grayson has been generating since he completed puberty, but that’s just me.
Our two heroes put their heads together and their combined scary IQ puts together "The four elements"
Oh and according to Superman, finding Robin could be a “chore”. Gee thanks Supes, I’m sure he’ll appreciated knowing he’s a “chore” now.
We now cut to flashback and find out what happened to our Teen Wonder. After Dick (working at the college newspaper, which must have made Clark just a teeny bit smug and PO’d Bruce) hears reports of weird goings on at the Four Elements Memorial (A Vietnam War memorial) Gosh an eternal flame is going out and they send their ace reporter to cover it (Who promptly decides it warrants an investigation as Robin). It must be a very slow newsday at The Hudon U paper.
Now this was the image that convinced me to post this, Robin, the Teen Wonder, who was the juvenile scourge of Gotham City criminals, brilliant leader of the Teen Titans and all round good egg, being mugged by a gang of dwarfs in a cave. I also love the “Overwhelmed by numbers” bit, there are five of them for heavens sake. No disrespect to dwarves, but I just don’t see Robin being menaced by them (Sorry, we later find out they consider themselves trolls, but do they LOOK like trolls to you?)
So now a captive, he’s dragged in front of a man with a very silly hat and a terribly camp facial hair. Meet... our villain!
What is that dwar.. sorry, “troll” who must be sitting on Robin’s back actually doing there? Never mind, better off not knowing perhaps! The bad guy is Simon Magus, a one time (and I mean ONE time, so Dick clearly does his homework) JLA foe, who now is using the Four Elements Memorial in a plot to absorb the magical energy of Asgard (his home dimension) and the “science energy” of Earth and rule them both, using a fragile looking crystal ball (Can you guess how he’s going to be defeated… go on, give a guess). I also like that Robin uses the word "trounced", it's got a good sound, and it's not used nearly enough these days IMHO)
Deciding NOT to kill him, but to keep him around (wouldn’t we all) Magus (Sorry, it’s impossible to call a major interdimensional threat “Simon” with a straight face) locks him up, but our resourceful little hero reaslises that with all the magic awash in the place he might be able to use it in a crude fashion to send a call for help.
Credit where it's due, Robin does adapt to situations well, he's stuck in a land awash with magic, then fine, use magic!Now note that he’s upset he can’t send actual words, but as we saw he actually did manage to get his images to talk, so Mr Grayson’s got quite the affinity with magic it would seem. Following Robin to the memorial his Bat-dad and honorary Uncle travel to Asgard, and meet up with an old guy in robes, a pointy hat and a long beard. Using their super intellect and the World’s Greatest Detective skills they deduce it’s Merlin. Ye Gods, I’m glad their on OUR side… Merlin fills them in on the plot (it saves time) and they split up to search Magus’ three bases, on in the clouds, one in the sea and one on the land
As the one who can fly, Superman gets the Air base, and finds himself face to face with something he immediately identifies as a balrog. Clearly Superman keeps up on his magical zoology, though it looks unlike any take on the balrog I’ve ever come across. Still, you don’t argue with a man who can squeeze coal into diamonds, so we’ll just keep quiet and agree with him. He eventually defeats it by causing it to plummet into magical water, dousing it’s magical fire. Gandalf would be so proud!
And meanwhile Batman finds himself assaulted by extra’s from Jason and the Argonauts (Nice to see they got work after the movie finished)
Use the safe word Bruce! Use the safe word!
Suffice to say he wins and rejoins Superman and Merlin (As there would be nothing heroic about an old guy in a dressing gown being heroic (This being pre Dumbledore being kickass), we don’t see anything of Merlin’s valiant battle against… whatever the hell it was he had to deal with)
Realising there’s an element missing from the bases, Merlin recalls the one place where all the elements meet (Anyone who has a bonfire at the beach is instantly suspect, but that’s presumably not a common event in Asgard) “The Cave of Shadows in the Valley of Fire” Now, if you were looking for an evil wizard wouldn’t somewhere called “The Cave of Shadows” be one of the FIRST places you check?
Anyway, they speed there and find Magus and Robin waiting for them, but our lovelorn Dwa.. trolls are clearly still horny for more human hunks (What, Dick Grayson wasn't enough for them? They must be like MACHINES!) and attack Superman, never a wise move, and he literally blows them away. And so we arrive at the finale...
“Great, finally kidnapped by a guy who dresses weirder than I do, and he has a gun against my head for the closing scene. Classy.” Note that Magus is quite smart here, he’s planning on using both magic and “science energy” (A term Superman also uses earlier, which means it’s a real term, you can hear the scientists in the DCU checking their science energy levels before starting research because you don’t want to be halfway through some science to discover you’ve run out of gravity!
Clearly inspired to defend his honour (No hero may ever be killed by a villain in a more absurd outfit than their own), Robin breaks free and in a move worthy of a B grade fantasy movie, smashes the terribly fragile crystal ball holding the spell together, thus reversing the whole thing. (and so another villainous plan is defeated by the criminal forgetting that when you tie up a Robin, you should TIE HIS ANKLES AS WELL!)
Freeze frame, cue laughter from studio audience, cut to credits!
Robin thinks that Magus couldn’t kill him because it would upset the spell (I still say it’s the sex rays he’s giving out, Magus probably had all sort of plans for our hero… Tantric magic perhaps?)
And nice to see Robin acknowledged a little, people forget that for the longest time “The World’s Finest Team” wasn’t “Superman and Batman”, it was “Superman and Batman and Robin” (Check out the old covers, Robin was always included with Batman’s name in the logo).
These days, a plot like that would feature pointless cameos from everyone from the Shadowpact to the Phantom Stranger. I like the idea that complete magical chaos can descend upon two worlds and no one notices but a costumed acrobat.
Quite a few images under the cut. It's a fifteen page story, so I've trimmed it down from it's original posting to what seems to be about five pages in total, but if it seems too large, I'll trim some images out.
Yeah kid, way to get the grown ups attention; “You may be fighting for your lives whilst I’m floating here without anyone attacking me, but dammit I need some acknowledgement”
Okay, Robin is clearly being pulled underground by something here, if imagining it might be by clinging, probing (and possibly naughty) tentacles gives you a happy feeling, well, you just go with that, it is te weekend after all.
We start with Bruce dreaming about Dick… I mean Robin I mean…. Oh heck, let’s just get all the smutty puns out of our minds at the start. Bruce having a precognitive dream about Jason here? Nope, it’s Dick all right, and it’s just Bruce dreaming about his ward… nope no subtext there at all, business as usual in the Dark Knights subconscious. At least he cares enough to plan on calling Dick, but not immediately as it would make him appear less macho.
Meanwhile... here we see a refreshingly retro (or very new) bunch of bank robbers in Metropolis trying to get away on foot. Their naivete is almost sweet. Then we have a moment which should by rights be followed by Chandler appearing in the background and optimistically shouting “And I wish for a million dollars!”, but this predates Friends by ten years.
Now Superman starts having visions of Robin, this time seeing his reflection in a fountain. Could this be the start of repressed super-jealousy?
And in an even MORE retro moment, we get a non-costumed Gotham cat burglar wearing a good old-fashioned domino mask (a shame he’s not wearing a striped jumper and a bag marked “Swag”). When was the last time we saw that? Actually I don’t think I’ve seen it since either… Now Batman sees the thief’s head turn into Robin’s face then his head bursts into flame, which probably has some Freudian interpretation I’d rather not dwell on.
Superman shows up and explains that he has had not one but two experiences, as he saw a perfectly formed Robin R in the clouds… Personally I just think he’s finally succumbing to the sex waves which Dick Grayson has been generating since he completed puberty, but that’s just me.
Our two heroes put their heads together and their combined scary IQ puts together "The four elements"
Oh and according to Superman, finding Robin could be a “chore”. Gee thanks Supes, I’m sure he’ll appreciated knowing he’s a “chore” now.
We now cut to flashback and find out what happened to our Teen Wonder. After Dick (working at the college newspaper, which must have made Clark just a teeny bit smug and PO’d Bruce) hears reports of weird goings on at the Four Elements Memorial (A Vietnam War memorial) Gosh an eternal flame is going out and they send their ace reporter to cover it (Who promptly decides it warrants an investigation as Robin). It must be a very slow newsday at The Hudon U paper.
Now this was the image that convinced me to post this, Robin, the Teen Wonder, who was the juvenile scourge of Gotham City criminals, brilliant leader of the Teen Titans and all round good egg, being mugged by a gang of dwarfs in a cave. I also love the “Overwhelmed by numbers” bit, there are five of them for heavens sake. No disrespect to dwarves, but I just don’t see Robin being menaced by them (Sorry, we later find out they consider themselves trolls, but do they LOOK like trolls to you?)
So now a captive, he’s dragged in front of a man with a very silly hat and a terribly camp facial hair. Meet... our villain!
What is that dwar.. sorry, “troll” who must be sitting on Robin’s back actually doing there? Never mind, better off not knowing perhaps! The bad guy is Simon Magus, a one time (and I mean ONE time, so Dick clearly does his homework) JLA foe, who now is using the Four Elements Memorial in a plot to absorb the magical energy of Asgard (his home dimension) and the “science energy” of Earth and rule them both, using a fragile looking crystal ball (Can you guess how he’s going to be defeated… go on, give a guess). I also like that Robin uses the word "trounced", it's got a good sound, and it's not used nearly enough these days IMHO)
Deciding NOT to kill him, but to keep him around (wouldn’t we all) Magus (Sorry, it’s impossible to call a major interdimensional threat “Simon” with a straight face) locks him up, but our resourceful little hero reaslises that with all the magic awash in the place he might be able to use it in a crude fashion to send a call for help.
Credit where it's due, Robin does adapt to situations well, he's stuck in a land awash with magic, then fine, use magic!Now note that he’s upset he can’t send actual words, but as we saw he actually did manage to get his images to talk, so Mr Grayson’s got quite the affinity with magic it would seem. Following Robin to the memorial his Bat-dad and honorary Uncle travel to Asgard, and meet up with an old guy in robes, a pointy hat and a long beard. Using their super intellect and the World’s Greatest Detective skills they deduce it’s Merlin. Ye Gods, I’m glad their on OUR side… Merlin fills them in on the plot (it saves time) and they split up to search Magus’ three bases, on in the clouds, one in the sea and one on the land
As the one who can fly, Superman gets the Air base, and finds himself face to face with something he immediately identifies as a balrog. Clearly Superman keeps up on his magical zoology, though it looks unlike any take on the balrog I’ve ever come across. Still, you don’t argue with a man who can squeeze coal into diamonds, so we’ll just keep quiet and agree with him. He eventually defeats it by causing it to plummet into magical water, dousing it’s magical fire. Gandalf would be so proud!
And meanwhile Batman finds himself assaulted by extra’s from Jason and the Argonauts (Nice to see they got work after the movie finished)
Use the safe word Bruce! Use the safe word!
Suffice to say he wins and rejoins Superman and Merlin (As there would be nothing heroic about an old guy in a dressing gown being heroic (This being pre Dumbledore being kickass), we don’t see anything of Merlin’s valiant battle against… whatever the hell it was he had to deal with)
Realising there’s an element missing from the bases, Merlin recalls the one place where all the elements meet (Anyone who has a bonfire at the beach is instantly suspect, but that’s presumably not a common event in Asgard) “The Cave of Shadows in the Valley of Fire” Now, if you were looking for an evil wizard wouldn’t somewhere called “The Cave of Shadows” be one of the FIRST places you check?
Anyway, they speed there and find Magus and Robin waiting for them, but our lovelorn Dwa.. trolls are clearly still horny for more human hunks (What, Dick Grayson wasn't enough for them? They must be like MACHINES!) and attack Superman, never a wise move, and he literally blows them away. And so we arrive at the finale...
“Great, finally kidnapped by a guy who dresses weirder than I do, and he has a gun against my head for the closing scene. Classy.” Note that Magus is quite smart here, he’s planning on using both magic and “science energy” (A term Superman also uses earlier, which means it’s a real term, you can hear the scientists in the DCU checking their science energy levels before starting research because you don’t want to be halfway through some science to discover you’ve run out of gravity!
Clearly inspired to defend his honour (No hero may ever be killed by a villain in a more absurd outfit than their own), Robin breaks free and in a move worthy of a B grade fantasy movie, smashes the terribly fragile crystal ball holding the spell together, thus reversing the whole thing. (and so another villainous plan is defeated by the criminal forgetting that when you tie up a Robin, you should TIE HIS ANKLES AS WELL!)
Freeze frame, cue laughter from studio audience, cut to credits!
Robin thinks that Magus couldn’t kill him because it would upset the spell (I still say it’s the sex rays he’s giving out, Magus probably had all sort of plans for our hero… Tantric magic perhaps?)
And nice to see Robin acknowledged a little, people forget that for the longest time “The World’s Finest Team” wasn’t “Superman and Batman”, it was “Superman and Batman and Robin” (Check out the old covers, Robin was always included with Batman’s name in the logo).
These days, a plot like that would feature pointless cameos from everyone from the Shadowpact to the Phantom Stranger. I like the idea that complete magical chaos can descend upon two worlds and no one notices but a costumed acrobat.
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Date: 2020-03-28 08:29 pm (UTC)(Like me, I'd have had Magus make use of his captive, a noble hero of pure spirit who'd wandered in HAS to be useful to an evil sorceror.. Tie him to an altar (what could it hurt), use his life force to speed up the spell as a focus, which is how he's able to access magic) and why Magus can't just kill him immediately. It wouldn't even be the first time Dick has run afoul of the occult in a suitable bondage friendly manner