Nothin' Quite Like How A Dog Loves

nothin' quite like how a dog loves

let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin // red dog - elizabeth frink // how to be a dog - andrew kane // domestication syndrome - dhole b // no origin found // for your own good - leah horlick // pleasure - beth cavener // it will come back - hozier // i am a dog. i have blood all over my teeth. - uhode // same poem as directly previous

wait Jack and Steph die in the same week?????

YEP!

(Batman #634)

Also while he wasn’t as close to her as Steph and his dad obviously, his other friend Darla was shot directly in front of him and also died the same week 💕

(Robin (1993) #129)

I bring her up because all three of these deaths haunt him afterwards in the same nightmare sequence

(Robin (1993) #133)

A bit of dejavu from the new Batman #131. Bruce has been zapped away (again) and Tim isn't taking it well (again).

The biggest difference this time is that Dick believes Tim.

But, of course, things are never that simple.

In many ways this is a callback not only to when Tim became Red Robin but all the way back to the why he became Robin in the first place. He sees that Bruce is broken on a fundamental level. The man is in a self-destructive spiral that Tim is determined to stop.

I have to wonder, though. Is this Tim recomitting himself to the ideal that "Batman needs a Robin" or will he finally understand what Dick has been trying to tell him (nobody but Bruce can fix Bruce)? This might be the first steps of Tim moving to a new identity. I guess only time will tell.

Image: comic page, conversation between Bruce and Alfred: Bruce: Former mayor Armand Krol is dead. Alfred: After escaping the threat of the Apocalypse Virus? Bruce: He didn’t quite escape it. The symptoms of the clench recurred in him. But this attack was was more virulent. It killed him within hours. Alfred: But Master Tim was afflicted– Bruce: I know, Alfred. I know.

Tim’s voice from off-page: You won’t believe who I met tonight, guys–

Final panel is Tim in front of Jason Todd’s memorial case, alarmed. Tim: What is it? Why’re you looking at me like that?

Found it! On the subject of Jason’s memorial case as narrative device, noted in tags that the case is also used visually to indicate that Tim is in danger: no matter how improbable with the layout of the cave, they show it behind him when it turns out the Clench can be recurring.

Wanted to find it for reference. It’s the end page of Robin 1993 issue 31, the one where Tim & Ariana go to a car show and meet Ted Grant (Wildcat).

…oh huh skimmed through the issue looking for this and found this panel

Image: comic panel of part of a conversation between Wildcat and Tim: Wildcat: Call the cops? I thought you and the Bat jumped in where angels feared to tread and all that. Tim: Only when there’s no alternative. I got the job for my sense of caution…

They’re chasing car thieves who made off with a Waynetech prototype. After this Tim winds up jumping into danger anyway ‘cause Wildcat took the lead, but it’s interesting that Tim gets this line when the issue is going to end with a reminder of Jason’s death, and the virus Tim was exposed to while on the job as Robin.

It's so cute when dudes wear their boyfriend's shirts

BATMAN 135 SPOILERS

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Tim having to add Joker!Tim to his list of evil future versions of himself to watch out for after having visited the Batman Beyond universe: … why is it always me???