Just speculating; could it be a Lazarus Pit thing?
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
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Tom Scola - May 18, 2011 5:47:02 am PDT #3506 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Steph L. - May 18, 2011 5:55:28 am PDT #3507 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ita, I don't know where I read this, but I feel like it was retconned that he always had red hair but dyed it dark brown when he was Robin. (Possibly he dyed it because Batman made him?)
I swear I read that in one of the comics, because I can't imagine I would just dream that up in my head.
§ ita § - May 20, 2011 5:11:12 am PDT #3508 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And then he dyed in a white streak? So confusing.
Anyone reading Flashpoint? What's up with it? Any good?
§ ita § - May 21, 2011 7:18:51 am PDT #3509 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have had the hair question cleared up in my reading of Batman: Black Glove. You are absolutely right, Steph. Then he mentions the Lazarus pit gave him a white streak, and then the colourist goes on to not give him a white streak for the next couple of issues.
It's really weird seeing him red-headed. I keep thinking he's Allen or West.
Steph L. - May 21, 2011 8:08:53 am PDT #3510 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have had the hair question cleared up in my reading of Batman: Black Glove. You are absolutely right, Steph.
Oh, *that's* where I read it!
Still, I dislike the red hair immensely.
Tom Scola - May 21, 2011 8:27:30 am PDT #3511 of 5059
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I thought his hair reminded me of Ra’s’. (Ra’s’s? Ra’s?)
Laga - May 21, 2011 8:35:24 am PDT #3512 of 5059
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Ra’s’. (Ra’s’s? Ra’s?)
this has to have come up before. Somewhere it must be canon.
Steph L. - May 21, 2011 9:43:19 am PDT #3513 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
this has to have come up before.
Pretty sure it's come up *here* before. Buffistas and punctuation? We're going to discuss it. (Teal'c, I am looking at you, buddy.)
§ ita § - May 21, 2011 11:45:01 am PDT #3514 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, I don't get the point of retconning him into a redhead. You want to liven up the Robin landscape, give Damian brown hair.
I am very much enjoying my re-immersion into comics right now. Previously I hadn't liked Grant Morrison's work much (I know, I know--I just didn't like what he did on the X-Men), but it seems he's the go to guy for the characters I want to read.
And I also realised I hadn't finished Y: The Last Man. Miraculously I'm still unspoilt, so I'll be polishing off the last deluxe book of that.
Atropa - May 21, 2011 4:29:47 pm PDT #3515 of 5059
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I got ridiculously angry at the DC Comics iPad app/store, because they don't have the first 8 issues of The Sandman available now. The only issues there are 34, 35, and 44. Dammit, I want the first 8!
(I also want both Death miniseries for the iPad, but realize that won't happen. Grrr. )