Shirtless Nightwing & Jericho Part 2 (Now with Shirtless Cyborg!)
New Titans #55 deals with the aftermath of the Who is Wonder Girl arc. Nightwing & Jericho are still shirtless, Cyborg also goes bare chested while he gets a checkup on Earth.
This issue also deals with the aftermath of Death in the Family. Dick learns of Jason's death after their return from space. As sad as that is, I do enjoy it when Titan boys are shirtless together.
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So, they took a poll. This was back when death meant something in comics. The new normal isn't bad, but for every Infinity Gauntlet or Crisis in Infinite Earths, it produces a Countdown. I have little doubt older Batman fans, people who hadn't read a comic book since the Silver Age, had no idea this wasn't Dick Grayson. (In fact, while I was like, five at the time, "A Death in the Family" was my first comic book. I'd caught reruns of the campy 60s show, and started to read the comics. There would've been a tonal shift without the subject matter, but still...) Despite older generations, the mob had spoken, and Jason Todd was to die.
Danny Chase being an utter cunt about Jason Todd's demise fits on a meta level: Nobody liked Danny Chase, either. And guess what happens to him. And I say that as someone who doesn't even like how casually character death is thrown about.
Death is a joke in comics, but Danny Chase seems to be permanent. He wasn't even in Blackest Night, the one arc where his return to the, ahem, moving, requires no explanation.
Dick and Wally were both apprehensive about Raven after she forced them to love her, though Wally really did love her. Dick also knows Trigon gave him a vision of Batman defeated, and it's coming true. First Barbara, then Jason shortly afterward. Bruce himself will be paralyzed a few years later, and won't even be able to attend Dick's wedding. (Which is mostly just him yelling at people because of PTSD over Mirage and Raven crashes the whole thing and you have a kiss between her and Starfire which looks like a lesbian rape scene TBH.)