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"It’s really examining the dangers of looking at the past through rose-colored glasses and doing a great service by having most (though not Superboy) of the characters realize that this is not the past as they remember it to be. This is the past as seen through Peter David’s eyes and as such it is much more immature and problematic. A key moment of this was the interaction that Robin had with Batman. As we saw in Batman: Urban Legends #10, the Bruce that Tim knows was supportive and happy for Tim finding his own happiness with Bernard. However, the Bruce of the Peter Davidverse? Less so, going as far as to call Tim’s sexuality a phase, a phrase that absolutely would have felt right at home in David’s era of Young Justice." - Cori McCreery
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"There are a lot of comics that I absolutely recognize that are problematic, and I still love them because they mattered to me at specific times. And, I'm not saying that all of them were, but definitely to your point, we've moved, we've changed as people, and that's okay. And we are still able to go back and go, you know, I don't love that this was happening, but this was happening, and we can talk about it now. And we can recognize it now. We didn't recognize it then, some of us didn't – I certainly didn't. And so I think it's having that love and wanting to maintain that love but recognizing that you can't stay there." - Meghan Fitzmartin
Trigger warning: homophobia
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"There were a lot of female characters at the time who struggled to be in those spaces. And I recognize that, I recognize being in a very male dominated space. And I think there's a lot of angst that we don't always talk about. And there's a lot of, "Well, you should just be happy that you're here." And I think for Cassie, I think that's a lot of people being like, "Well you should just be happy enough that you're here." And that takes away from a lot of the stuff that she's had to put up with and go through. And so wanting to give Cassie that voice and give her that space to put paint to the fact that she's frustrated. She's got a lot to say. And as I said, as Dave and I were digging into the story, it was a lot about how Cassie is just done. Cassie is just angry. And it was fun to be able to write that, it was fun as a female creator, to be able to write being angry. Because it's a space that we don't always get to see." - Meghan Fitzmartin
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Mr. Lodge is about to destroy Sweetwater Swamp, a wetlands reserve between Gotham and Riverdale that is the home of dozens of rare plants that can't be found anywhere else in the world for development. This doesn't sit well with environmentalists. Two of them, Harley & Ivy, attempt to use reason to convince Lodge not to do it, but when that fails, they decide to kidnap his daughter to persuade him. They arrive at the heroes and villains themed costume gala Lodge is throwing to celebrate the groundbreaking, dressed as themselves. Unfortunately, Betty & Veronica are also dressed as them, and Veronica is not happy about two people showing up in the same costumes.
Meanwhile, a group of Gotham criminals are seeking revenge on Harley and Ivy. They are Lenny the Lamprey, Peach-Head Henry (Ivy turned his head into a peach), and Giggles Magee (He's sad all the time, but can't stop laughing because of what Harley did to him).
To add to the drama, the Blossom twins have been kept out of the gala by Veronica.
Oh, some trivia... The earliest Batman stories were set in New York City, but the location was changed to the fictional Gotham City, Gotham being a nickname for New York. The earliest Archie stories were set in the real life Riverdale neighborhood in New York City before Riverdale was made it's own fictional town, a suburb of the Big Apple, while Gotham is now a sister city of New York. Yeah, Gotham and Riverdale are representations of the same place.
But first, some music...
We'll make the winter springtime
And Jingle Jangle singtime
Right on through the summer and the fall
So darlin', don't be weepin'
And please don't you be sleepin'
When I come a-creepin' down the hall
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