Jason Todd: Robin, Red Hood, Arkham Knight Appreciation 2021

[Sonia]

Hoping for a good showing Jason Todd aka Red Hood for 2021.

[Sergard]

Happy new year to everybody. I'll update this post with general information about Jason Todd/Red Hood later.

Upcoming Appearances:

In comics:

• Future State: Dark Detective #2 and #4: The Red Hood written by Joshua Williamson, with art by Giannis Milonogiannis
• Batman: Urban Legends (Anthology): Batman/Red Hood written by Chip Zdarsky, with art by Barrows
• Batman: White Knight universe written/drawn by Sean Murphy

Other media:

• Gotham Knights game
• Titans (TV series), season 3

Background information:

"I'm my own man! Me, Jason Todd!"

(Batman #408)

Jason Peter Todd, born and risen in Lady City of Gotham's crudest part, came to become the second Robin, the Red Hood and the Wingman; the Arkham Knight of a different, grimmer universe; The Damned Prince of Gotham who suffered and died by the hand of the Clown Prince of Crime - but also the young man whose sheer will and bad luck couldn't let him rest and who made his way back from the grave.

Vigilante, avenger: he fights for fairness, for setting the wrong right and for defending and protecting those who cannot fend themselves, and he will do so crossing lines into dark areas or delivering a brutal brand of justice. A daring and sassy adventurer who has traveled not only this world and the space, but other universes. A flawed man who fights not only the monsters out but also inside, who fears the ghosts of memories and suffers from them and despite that will fight back with determination. A man who can despise himself as much as he despises others; Who makes mistakes but also rights; Who can love as much as long for being loved, and hate as much as he loves. Who can lose himself in anger as well as in loneliness.

Jason Peter Todd is a complex character, product of a complex editorial history. This is his appreciation thread and this is how we come to appreciate and ramble about him.

(Thanks @Zaresh for writing the above introduction.)

Quick two-step introduction to Jason Todd/Red Hood

Step 1: Watch Batman: Under the Red Hood
Step 2: Read the current Rebirth run of Red Hood and the Outlaws (renamed Red Hood: Outlaw with issue 27 and Red Hood with issue 51), trades:

• Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 1 - Dark Trinity
• Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 2 - Who is Artemis?
• Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 3 - Bizarro Reborn
• Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 4 - Good Night Gotham
• Red Hood: Outlaw Vol 1 - Requiem for an Archer
• Red Hood: Outlaw Vol 2 - Prince of Gotham
• Red Hood: Outlaw Vol 3 - Generation Outlaw
• Red Hood: Outlaw Vol 4 - Unspoken Truths

Old Threads:
Jason Todd: Robin, Red Hood, Arkham Knight Appreciation 2020
Jason Todd: Robin, Red Hood, Arkham Knight, Prince of Gotham Appreciation 2019
Jason Todd: Robin, Arkham Knight, Red Hood Appreciation 2018 (actually 2014-2018)

Fanfic recommendations:

List of recommended fanfic authors
List of recommended fanfics (info)

DC Forum Appreciation Thread rules:

1) No negative comments about the honoree(s) of this thread. It's an appreciation thread, not a non-appreciation one.

2) No negative discussion about any competitors of the honoree(s) of this thread. No ifs, ands, or buts. Find another non-appreciation thread to do that, just not here.

3) No negative comments about other versions of the character. For example, if you like the DCU version of Cyborg, but hate the DCnU version (or visa versa), just appreciate the earlier version and keep your comments about the latter to yourself.

[K7P5V]

Kenneth Rocafort will always be my favorite artist for Red Hood (Jason Todd):

[Restingvoice]

Happy new year, sweet prince

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[Sergard]

artist: @hwen118



artist: Yolin

[Dark_Tzitzimine]

Happy 2021

[Zaresh]

Happy 2021

Happy new year to you all, guys. I hope this 2021 ends up being a way happier year than the previous one.

[Sergard]

Happy new year to you all, guys. I hope this 2021 ends up being a way happier year than the previous one.

I hope so too. Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like 2020 started very promising - and then a lot of bad stuff happened.

[Frontier]

Happy New Year to Jason and all his fans .

[Zaresh]

I hope so too. Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like 2020 started very promising - and then a lot of bad stuff happened.

It started good, yeah. But then, it all went down soon enough, unfortunately.

Happy New Year to Jason and all his fans .

Wish you the same. Wish you the best this year.

[AJpyro]

Happy new year to my favorite robin.

[Dark_Tzitzimine]

Surprised Tynion's newsletter hasn't been posted yet.

Urban Legends is going to be a real gift. A lot of storylines will be seeded in that title before they break out into their own titles… There are also more books to come in the Gotham line as the year goes on. Big moments in the core Gotham titles will set new runs in motion in other titles. Backups and shorts might turn into one-shots and miniseries and series, and we're working to make sure it all matters.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jame...and-the-joker/

I'm not sure about what to think of these possibilities, to be honest. For a unified storyline running among multiple titles to work, it needs that the person in charge of it has the needed chops to spin so many plates at once and unfortunately, DC has proved again and again that they no longer have people around able to do that. Furthermore, Tynion is the current architect of the Batman universe for the foreseeable future, and I've never liked his work or the creative choices he makes (to not mention that the one time he wrote Jason it was an unreadable mess) so I'm worried the remedy ends up being worse than the sickness.

We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

[Arsenal]

Sounds like it’ll be a collaborative effort with monthly meetings and such so maybe it’ll be more of them hands off and focused on making sure everybody’s on the same page with recent developments.

[Dark_Tzitzimine]

Sounds like it’ll be a collaborative effort with monthly meetings and such so maybe it’ll be more of them hands off and focused on making sure everybody’s on the same page with recent developments.

You realize that is (allegedly) precisely what every major "unified editorial line" has been for a decade. right? Did you forget already of Snyder's claims during Night of Owls? or Tynion's own stint as the Batman Architect during the two Batman Eternal weeklies?

[Arsenal]

You realize that is (allegedly) precisely what every major "unified editorial line" has been for a decade. right? Did you forget already of Snyder's claims during Night of Owls? or Tynion's own stint as the Batman Architect during the two Batman Eternal weeklies?

C’mon Dark, let me pretend it’ll be different this time until it inevitably proves it’s no different than it was every other time they claimed the exact same thing.