He was simply collecting children for his child army. Gotta break a few eggs and all. Really though death is so inconsequential now that the last few times weren’t really memorable. It’s no big deal.
Damian died when Talia sicced his older clone/brother, the Heretic, on him. Then she killed him too. Dick faked his death after Owlman and the crime Syndicate exposed his identity to the world. And he’s not on this page, but Superman’s dad kidnapped Tim once and he was presumed dead.
Why can’t they make deaths mean literally anything anymore so that people will actually remember that it happened? Why is it impossible for modern comics to wait more than a few months before bringing characters back?
I don't think it's that weird, Alfred's been working for the Waynes at least since when Bruce was a baby, and he doesn't seem like the type to spend money on frivolous things, add some sound investments here and there, and I think it's completely possible for Alfred to be a secret billionaire.
I don't think you grasp how much a fricking billion dollars is. I wouldn't bat an eye at millionaire but BILLIONAIRE?! No.
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He’s secretly a businessman who hired another butler to come and clean when no one was around
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comic book money is always infamously stupid, no billionaire in reality could fund a private satellite like the watchtower yet it's always hand-waived as Bruce funding it.
Dick is too much of a peer partner to Bruce to fully be his son. Morrison got that right. Dini and Timm got that right. Dick is not not Bruce's son. Dick is Bruce's student brother babysitter therapy-dog trophy son crush.
Tomasi made Bruce a good dad to Damian. Most other writers try to kick out Damian through whatever deus ex machina of outside forces, so Damian gets all this abandonment issues angst, but it's not necessarily supposed to reflect badly on Bruce's character.
Jim Starlin wrote Bruce crashing and burning as a parent to prove that Batman shouldn't have kids, and Batman comics should be gritty and grounded with no child sidekicks. Bruce admitted he shouldn't have kids, but he was addicted to the fuzzy feeling of playing Jason's dad. The psychological whiplash of love and pain was so bad that Jason turned schizo.
Tim was 17 and Cassandra was 20 when Bruce legally adopted them. He has never parented them. He throws money at them, hugs them once in a very rare blue moon, and that's it.
I think Bruce is supposed to end up as a good dad to Helena Wayne. But she should always be an alternate Earth character, she's such a crappy character for the main universe.
Scott Snyder pushed his OC as Bruce's foster child for like one panel. That was long enough for Twitter people who don't read comics to campaign for the kid to be Bruce's token Black child. It failed, and now the kid's mom has recovered from her coma.
Using Tom Taylor is cheating. Taylor would write Darkseid as a wholesome dad.
>Dick is too much of a peer partner to Bruce to fully be his son.
In the sense that he's been an adult peer since 1969. If no one ever reads the first 29 years of Robin, it'll feel like he started as a teenage student who just happened to be an orphan.
Zdarsky massively exaggerates Bruce as a self-centered garbagefire, only saved by the grace of Lord Martyr And Savior Tim's tireless tard-wrangling. How ever did Batman get by all those years without Tim. Truly a mystery.
As an aside, this perfectly exemplifies why Tim is deadweight on the Batman mythos. Literally every Robin except him has compelling development and relationships with Batman and Gotham.
late 90's wasn't bad
Some 90s comics were decent. But Batman the character doesn't get good writing in Batfamily books. O'Neill refused to make Batman into a parent for a reason. Moench and Barr wrote the best parent, and yet O'Neill still quarantined their OC kids in Elseworlds. O'Neill was right.
>Dick: take my place as hero of gotham >Tim: inherit Wayne Industries and the Wayne Foundation >Damian: when Dick and Tim are gone the mantle and the family legacy passes to you >Jason: you have always been a failure, and a mistake. The fact you turned out to be such an awful person is my fault for ever adopting you, but truthfully you have always just been broken on the inside and I couldn’t fix that. I regret taking you in and ever letting you be my robin with all my heart. Thus I command you to cease trying to be a superhero and stop trying to be part of the batfamily forever. I have selected a specialised psychiatrist that you shall attend once per day everyday. With time and luck perhaps oneday they can fix what’s wrong with you and you will no longer be such a shameful tarnish on my legacy.
>take my place as hero of gotham
Didn't Bruce specifically ask Dick to NOT do that? And the only reason Dick did it was because no one else (but Jason) wanted the job?
he didn’t, Dick just didn’t want to take the job because he was insecure he’ll never be as cool as Bruce. The only part of the will we saw was Jason’s, but Alfred implied in issue 1 that Bruce had specifically asked in his “legacy” that Dick take over.
He didn't? I must be having some Mandela effect then cause I swear I remember Dick at some point saying something along the lines of >he told me to NOT be Batman, he didn't want that life for me
at some point, I must've dreamed it I guess.
Damian >Wayne heirlooms >Wayne estate >Martha's pearls >Thomas' watch >all that old money bloodline stuff
Dick >everything else >fortune >Batman keepsakes, tech >Selina
Barbara >creepy dossiers and contingency plans
Jason >prepaid cremation >special needs trust to pay for AIDS medicine >forced brain implant that electrocutes him whenever he feels a negative emotion
He seems pretty good in Williamson's Batman and Robin.
The truth is that Bruce is an incredibly flawed person, and that extends into his parenting, but at least he tries, I'd argue there's worse fathers and father figures in DC.
2018ish
>2018
>mfw 2018 was 6 years ago
>good father to an alien spore
multiple dead child-shape humans:
hold my beer
He was simply collecting children for his child army. Gotta break a few eggs and all. Really though death is so inconsequential now that the last few times weren’t really memorable. It’s no big deal.
I cannot make head or tails of this dialogue. When have the other bat kids died?
Damian died when Talia sicced his older clone/brother, the Heretic, on him. Then she killed him too. Dick faked his death after Owlman and the crime Syndicate exposed his identity to the world. And he’s not on this page, but Superman’s dad kidnapped Tim once and he was presumed dead.
Well two of those are fake outs. Hadn't heard about Damians but I guess it's to be expected when you have a Lazarus pit in the family. Thanks
It was actually an Apokolips pit, he even had powers for a little while.
Didn't Dick die in Infinite Crisis?
That was the original plan, but everyone was against it so Dick survived and they killed Kon-El instead.
Why can’t they make deaths mean literally anything anymore so that people will actually remember that it happened? Why is it impossible for modern comics to wait more than a few months before bringing characters back?
Jason died in Death in the Family (lasted ~15 years)
Damian died in Batman: Incorporated (lasted ~5 years)
Dick died in Forever Evil (lasted ~5 pages)
fpbp
>that pic
His only and realest son
What ever happened to the little guy?
Best robin
Is that Starro?
Jarro basically a baby Starro with it's own consciousness. He's cute
He wants to be a Robin
He was the coolest guy…
Last Wednesday.
>Alfred was a billionaire
What
Did you people think he worked for free?
There's a difference between 'working for free' and 'yeah I was paying him BILLIONS'
I don't think it's that weird, Alfred's been working for the Waynes at least since when Bruce was a baby, and he doesn't seem like the type to spend money on frivolous things, add some sound investments here and there, and I think it's completely possible for Alfred to be a secret billionaire.
I don't think you grasp how much a fricking billion dollars is. I wouldn't bat an eye at millionaire but BILLIONAIRE?! No.
He’s secretly a businessman who hired another butler to come and clean when no one was around
comic book money is always infamously stupid, no billionaire in reality could fund a private satellite like the watchtower yet it's always hand-waived as Bruce funding it.
>Alfred was a billionaire
How
Dick is too much of a peer partner to Bruce to fully be his son. Morrison got that right. Dini and Timm got that right. Dick is not not Bruce's son. Dick is Bruce's student brother babysitter therapy-dog trophy son crush.
Tomasi made Bruce a good dad to Damian. Most other writers try to kick out Damian through whatever deus ex machina of outside forces, so Damian gets all this abandonment issues angst, but it's not necessarily supposed to reflect badly on Bruce's character.
Jim Starlin wrote Bruce crashing and burning as a parent to prove that Batman shouldn't have kids, and Batman comics should be gritty and grounded with no child sidekicks. Bruce admitted he shouldn't have kids, but he was addicted to the fuzzy feeling of playing Jason's dad. The psychological whiplash of love and pain was so bad that Jason turned schizo.
Tim was 17 and Cassandra was 20 when Bruce legally adopted them. He has never parented them. He throws money at them, hugs them once in a very rare blue moon, and that's it.
I think Bruce is supposed to end up as a good dad to Helena Wayne. But she should always be an alternate Earth character, she's such a crappy character for the main universe.
Scott Snyder pushed his OC as Bruce's foster child for like one panel. That was long enough for Twitter people who don't read comics to campaign for the kid to be Bruce's token Black child. It failed, and now the kid's mom has recovered from her coma.
Using Tom Taylor is cheating. Taylor would write Darkseid as a wholesome dad.
Englehart did the Bruce and Dick as brothers thing back in the 70s
>Dick is too much of a peer partner to Bruce to fully be his son.
In the sense that he's been an adult peer since 1969. If no one ever reads the first 29 years of Robin, it'll feel like he started as a teenage student who just happened to be an orphan.
Why is he smiling
Why aren't YOU smiling?
Who says I'm not?
How is Bruce masking his mechanic arm in this?
Skin glove
It’s funny how he beats the shit out of this criminal whenever possible now. Not wrong to call this one one of his bigger screw ups.
It’s fine Bruce took away his son status because Jason failed him
I would argue they failed each other. Shitty situation all around. Turns out it’s hard to raise some random thief kid you snatched off the street.
Depends on the writer of the month
>good father
Zdarsky massively exaggerates Bruce as a self-centered garbagefire, only saved by the grace of Lord Martyr And Savior Tim's tireless tard-wrangling. How ever did Batman get by all those years without Tim. Truly a mystery.
As an aside, this perfectly exemplifies why Tim is deadweight on the Batman mythos. Literally every Robin except him has compelling development and relationships with Batman and Gotham.
Some 90s comics were decent. But Batman the character doesn't get good writing in Batfamily books. O'Neill refused to make Batman into a parent for a reason. Moench and Barr wrote the best parent, and yet O'Neill still quarantined their OC kids in Elseworlds. O'Neill was right.
What’s with all the timwanking lately?
>When was the last time Batman was a good comic?
Early 90s?
Steph, Cass and Damian are fine characters, but they've only existed in the era of garbage comics.
late 90's wasn't bad
>Batman
>good father
I’ll excuse anything else but how the hell has he not gotten rabies from those damn bats? Does he just get the shots monthly just in case?
To be fair, this is the Dick that wound up an immortal jokerized troony psycho in TDK2.
When he told Tim that him becoming a homosexual was only a phase.
The real question is what does he leave in his will
>Dick: take my place as hero of gotham
>Tim: inherit Wayne Industries and the Wayne Foundation
>Damian: when Dick and Tim are gone the mantle and the family legacy passes to you
>Jason: you have always been a failure, and a mistake. The fact you turned out to be such an awful person is my fault for ever adopting you, but truthfully you have always just been broken on the inside and I couldn’t fix that. I regret taking you in and ever letting you be my robin with all my heart. Thus I command you to cease trying to be a superhero and stop trying to be part of the batfamily forever. I have selected a specialised psychiatrist that you shall attend once per day everyday. With time and luck perhaps oneday they can fix what’s wrong with you and you will no longer be such a shameful tarnish on my legacy.
Lmao family drama after deaths are morbidly fun to watch
Really.
>take my place as hero of gotham
Didn't Bruce specifically ask Dick to NOT do that? And the only reason Dick did it was because no one else (but Jason) wanted the job?
he didn’t, Dick just didn’t want to take the job because he was insecure he’ll never be as cool as Bruce. The only part of the will we saw was Jason’s, but Alfred implied in issue 1 that Bruce had specifically asked in his “legacy” that Dick take over.
He didn't? I must be having some Mandela effect then cause I swear I remember Dick at some point saying something along the lines of
>he told me to NOT be Batman, he didn't want that life for me
at some point, I must've dreamed it I guess.
jfc, how could jasongays ever recover from this?
Why should I care?
Any Jason fan already knows how much that guy hates him.
>Damian: when Dick and Tim are gone the mantle and the family legacy passes to you
Lol he's just asking for trouble isn't he
Damian
>Wayne heirlooms
>Wayne estate
>Martha's pearls
>Thomas' watch
>all that old money bloodline stuff
Dick
>everything else
>fortune
>Batman keepsakes, tech
>Selina
Barbara
>creepy dossiers and contingency plans
Jason
>prepaid cremation
>special needs trust to pay for AIDS medicine
>forced brain implant that electrocutes him whenever he feels a negative emotion
Lmao at that last one
Even better that he basically already did this while alive
>forced brain implant that electrocutes him whenever he feels a negative emotion
Didn’t he already do that recently? Can’t remember if it worked.
>meanwhile Tim and Cassandra
>Cassgays
He seems pretty good in Williamson's Batman and Robin.
The truth is that Bruce is an incredibly flawed person, and that extends into his parenting, but at least he tries, I'd argue there's worse fathers and father figures in DC.
>I'd argue there's worse fathers and father figures in DC.
Anyone mentioning op pic batman has him like 7 feet on that angle.