Especially now his underpants are on fire.

Given how often he's ditching them, I don't think he'd have felt more than a tingle.

He's kind of a needy manho.

Devin Grayson is also an out lesbian, which is even rarer in comics than being a het woman.

Some Buffista who I cannot recall but whom I thank again nonetheless sent me a book of interviews with comics writers, about how they work and how they got into it (which I would be happy to add to our Comicsflix pile, now that I think of it). Devin was the only woman interviewed, and one of the writers I liked the best from the book -- and I wasn't even reading Batfamily comics at the time! I got the rec for Nightwing/Huntress based on liking the interview, and now -- well, now I'm buying the latest issue of Birds of Prey to read on the LIRR and wondering why Huntress is surprised to find out Babs and Dick were an item when she was the one who called it that they were going to get together in the mini!

And, for the record, Tim Drake has yet to do anything for me. I don't get it.

He's kind of a needy manho.

Kind of? Hee. According to Babs, he sleeps with anyone who's nice to him. Or who reminds him of Bruce.

There's a crazy, calculating edge to the boy

Tim is deeply Not Right In The Head. He's a competent little control freak in a cape, with a sense of humor, a slightly evil way about him, and a dysfunctional relationship with everyone in the known universe.

I, um, overidentify with him sometimes.

Or who reminds him of Bruce.

It's like Babs is one of us.

It's like Babs is one of us.

She just understands that Dick puts the Ho back in HoYay.

Tim is deeply Not Right In The Head.

The boy just decided he wanted to be Robin, and then made it happen. I don't think you can get much less right in the head than that.

The boy just decided he wanted to be Robin, and then made it happen. I don't think you can get much less right in the head than that.

Now, don't leave out the first part: the boy decided that BRUCE needed Robin, and tried to get Dick back into the pixie boots. Then, when that didn't work, he threw himself on the alter of Bruce's needs.

Actually, I think Tim's even scarier than thet. He decided that Batman *needed* a Robin, and only after reaching that conclusion did he appoint himself best severely disturbed youngster for the job. He's so *methodical*.

(xpost with plei, of course. hee.)

This month's Outsiders? Very gay, FTR.

Scott Summers' flaw is that he is a dick. Not an interesting dick, like Gambit, for whom it's not a flaw but a selling point.

A boring old dick, and even more so in recent continuity (which makes me feel even better about the resentment I've been harbouring since Maddy Pryor).

Gah, Maddy Pryor! Her arc pretty much killed the X-Men for me.