Dude, I think I'm going to stop reading Robin, as much as it pains me to say that, because you know I have the great big Tim love.
But really. The writing is execrable, and the art in #132 is some of the worst art I've ever seen. I no longer give one damn about it.
And I *so* can't figure out the timeline of things in the DC-verse. Tim said
that he buried Darla, Steph, and his dad, in just a matter of days. The fact that he mentioned his dead dad means that Robin #132 is taking place after IC #5/6.
I just don't see how it all slots together, time-wise. War Games, even though it felt like YEARS, took place over (more or less) 2-3 days. Given that you really need to
bury people relatively soon after they die, Darla and Steph had to have been buried, at most, within a week after War Games.
So, given that
week of leeway, did the whole of IC take place in that one week? Because that's when Tim's dad died.
Me confused. Make head hurt.
I loved that TT #18 used the
IC mind-wipe knowledge -- though I'd guess that Zatanna is long gone, and Dark Raven probably does it.
I have a lot more to say about TT #18, but I need my comic in front of me. Though I really dig the implication that
Bruce and Selina got married.
Steph, I'm ignoring Willingham's messed-up timeline (and, actually, Meltzer's messed up timeine too, even though it's better-written).
As far as I can tell, the chain of events is something like:
Tim quits. Steph is Robin, Steph is fired, Tim is Robin, Steph is dead. Tim's dad has a couple of weeks to adjust to Tim being Robin, then he's dead too. Tim is traumatized 4-EVAH.
The End.
Isn't Willingham going to stop writing Robin? Or am I very very confused?
It's always best to ignore exact time references in DC or Marvel comics. All they are is a shorthand for "recently," "not that long ago" and "a while back." Anything that happened in the past five years IRL happened "last year."
Continuity will never be so fine an instrument as to ever, ever be comprehensible.
Willingham delenda est.
No! You may wish him off the title, but you may not wish his death. I need my
Fables.
I'll sign on for that. How does someone that openly hostile to his own fanbase convince an editor to hire him?
How does someone that openly hostile to his own fanbase convince an editor to hire him?
There must be fans who like him. For example: there's a whole platoon of fans who DESPISE Devin Grayson, who think she ruined Nightwing with this whole torment-him-make-him-suffer arc. And I can't quite wrap my head around people hating Grayson.
Willingham delenda est.
wrod. I keep hoping he'll turn it around, but the man cannot write
any
of the Bats. I halfway wish they'd just give him another DC title to ruin, but i'm afraid it'll be something I like.
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