Holy fanservice, Batman! Robins has a series of variant covers in which all the former Robins are in workout clothes.
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Anonymous said…
Great covers. The Grayson cover reminds me of Prizefighter on a variant cover of Commanders in Crisis 5. There are great shirtless shots of Prizefighter in issue 11.
Anonymous said…
The Grayson one is borderline porn. Continuing the degeneration of his character since Infinite Crisis.
So, this one introduces insane amounts of fanon into canon.
1. Dick apparently keeps cereal for guests? Who does this? In older canon, his favorite breakfast item was pancakes, and had no other preferences, besides ranging from social drinker (one drink and no more liquor) to teetotaler. And even being a self-righteous cunt about it to Roy at times.
2. Damian was born to be Robin. Because we know Talia loves the only Robin at the time.
3. Dick wanted to help Batman. This is a personal bugaboo of mine, Dick's motives are all over the map because of author incompetence. Nice to know John and Mary Grayson are completely forgotten.
4. Tim felt Robin was his destiny. Okay, could be worse. But that doesn't explain a why he asked Dick to be Robin first. Especially since Seeley gave Tim's motive to Dick, the one character whose origin everyone knows.
5. And Jason, who now wanted to be a crime boss. Funny, in the 80s, he saw criminals as parasites, preying on the poor and vulnerable. He saw rapists and drug dealers as worthy of extermination, a category he broadened as the Red Hood.
6. Steph doesn't bother me, but that's mostly because her origin as Robin matches the autocratic tendencies Batman has developed in the past couple decades, and Seeley barely talks about her.
7. Who is Jose Garzonas? That's just lazy. Also, Firefly? Not Deathstroke or, I guess Brother Blood is currently dead. Though frankly this continuity is bizarre.
All that said, the wannabe Robin (I've started calling her Eobin, due to her similarity to the original Reverse-flash.) does have a cool costume with castoffs from various evil Robins, or not even evil, but a deep cut. (Target?)
Missing Jason's Flying Todds outfit and Carrie Kelley's glasses. I mean she's a girl, so none of the Deathwing stuff.
Yeah, the fans hate this mini already & only one issue has been released. That being said, I don't mind Dick's pose, nothing wrong with a little fanservice & this is not "porn" at all. I have more of a problem with Jason's autopsy scars. That's one bit of fanon I'm not thrilled with which could potentially be canon now because of this cover.
Anonymous said…
Fair. It's more the pose than anything.
Autopsy scars are a common fanon. I prefer classic "Lazarus pit heals all wounds", so Jason is thrown in cut, comes out not, to add DC to that meme. (One of his candidates for his mother was a Mossad agent.)
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So, this one introduces insane amounts of fanon into canon.
1. Dick apparently keeps cereal for guests? Who does this? In older canon, his favorite breakfast item was pancakes, and had no other preferences, besides ranging from social drinker (one drink and no more liquor) to teetotaler. And even being a self-righteous cunt about it to Roy at times.
2. Damian was born to be Robin. Because we know Talia loves the only Robin at the time.
3. Dick wanted to help Batman. This is a personal bugaboo of mine, Dick's motives are all over the map because of author incompetence. Nice to know John and Mary Grayson are completely forgotten.
4. Tim felt Robin was his destiny. Okay, could be worse. But that doesn't explain a why he asked Dick to be Robin first. Especially since Seeley gave Tim's motive to Dick, the one character whose origin everyone knows.
5. And Jason, who now wanted to be a crime boss. Funny, in the 80s, he saw criminals as parasites, preying on the poor and vulnerable. He saw rapists and drug dealers as worthy of extermination, a category he broadened as the Red Hood.
6. Steph doesn't bother me, but that's mostly because her origin as Robin matches the autocratic tendencies Batman has developed in the past couple decades, and Seeley barely talks about her.
7. Who is Jose Garzonas? That's just lazy. Also, Firefly? Not Deathstroke or, I guess Brother Blood is currently dead. Though frankly this continuity is bizarre.
All that said, the wannabe Robin (I've started calling her Eobin, due to her similarity to the original Reverse-flash.) does have a cool costume with castoffs from various evil Robins, or not even evil, but a deep cut. (Target?)
Missing Jason's Flying Todds outfit and Carrie Kelley's glasses. I mean she's a girl, so none of the Deathwing stuff.
Autopsy scars are a common fanon. I prefer classic "Lazarus pit heals all wounds", so Jason is thrown in cut, comes out not, to add DC to that meme. (One of his candidates for his mother was a Mossad agent.)