Red Hood: Outlaw #30 Preview and Discussion Thread

[RedBird]

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Written by: Scott Lobdell
Art by: Pete Woods
Cover by: Pete Woods
Variant cover by: Philip Tan
U.S. Price: $3.99
On Sale Date: January 16, 2019

Will the Red Hood’s latest campaign be his last? Jason’s hot on the heels of the drugs he and Arsenal recently tracked to Beijing, but instead of finally encountering the mysterious Solitary, he finds himself face to face with a figure from his past. Plus, who’s the new Wingman, and why’s he tracking the Red Hood? And how can he and Jason be in the same place at the same time? Find out in “Outlaw” part five!

[RedBird]

[RedBird]

[Doctor Bifrost]

You'd think he's focus his attention on trying to find out who killed his best friend.

[Zaresh]

You'd think he's focus his attention on trying to find out who killed his best friend.

Why? He has the whole Justice League working on it, it's a bigger than one murdered person case, and he doesn't have access to any of the mass murdering details.

I mean, besides the obvious reason that Heroes in Crisis is its whole isolated thing and you cannot allow your book to be interrupted by it, same as you cannot resolve said case in a book outside Heroes in Crisis.

[Doctor Bifrost]

Why? He has the whole Justice League working on it, it's a bigger than one murdered person case, and he doesn't have access to any of the mass murdering details.

I always thought the whole point, tone, and attitude of Jason was his belief that he doesn't really trust the other superheroes to get the job done - that why he has to do things his way.

I mean, besides the obvious reason that Heroes in Crisis is its whole isolated thing and you cannot allow your book to be interrupted by it, same as you cannot resolve said case in a book outside Heroes in Crisis.

That's more convincing, but of course it's meta-reasoning. For a confident - many would say arrogant - hero to say, "My best friend was murdered! I need to honor him! So I'm... not going to get in there, help figure out who did it, and exact justice. I'm going to continue on an unrelated case we talked about recently" requires an editor's hand on the character's shoulder.

[okiedokiewo]

You'd think he's focus his attention on trying to find out who killed his best friend.

Well, yeah. But Jason isn't being used in Heroes in Crisis, so he's not allowed to be doing that.

[G-Potion]

@Doctor Bifrost: In addition to what the others have said, I also think that practically Jason has no resource to investigate Roy's murder and he knows it, what with Sanctuary being run by Batman and the JL. Jason, having no qualm about killing and just recently pissed off Batman, might not be allowed to set foot in there, much less investigate. On another note, Jason views death differently than most others because of his own experience so while he definitely misses Roy, he also accepts it more easily.