Jason Todd: Robin, Arkham Knight, Red Hood Appreciation 2018

[Aioros22]

It`s can be easy to miss because it`s all in the same tomato soup panel, but do read it. This is a cabal of one shots of Batmen losing their marbles and becoming their worst nigthmare, standard rules are out, so it does what it aims to do.

I`m thinking Sauron is the actual mastermind behind Metal, not Barbathos.

[RedBird]

Yo Aioros22 since you have read it, care to explain one thing I may have overlooked

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where the hell did the four pants less robins come from? I was kinda hoping for some kind of throwaway line at least explaining who they are meant to be. Are they those robots shown in the beginning? You know, the one dressed like robin? Or are they really just a meta cheap joke about Batman managing to find some rando kids and they all happen to look alike. Kinda disappointing.

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[okiedokiewo]

Yo Aioros22 since you have read it, care to explain one thing I may have overlooked

spoilers:

where the hell did the four pants less robins come from? I was kinda hoping for some kind of throwaway line at least explaining who they are meant to be. Are they those robots shown in the beginning? You know, the one dressed like robin? Or are they really just a meta cheap joke about Batman managing to find some rando kids and they all happen to look alike. Kinda disappointing.

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spoilers:

I think it's been shown that there's actually more of them. There was a panel with Damian and dozens of them. So they don't even correspond to the Robins, really. You have the cheap joke of them saying "crow," and "bar" being like a stop word for them, but beyond that, it's like they're just little monsters. Perhaps clones? I don't think they've been explained, but I haven't read every issue.

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[Dark_Tzitzimine]

spoilers:

I think it's been shown that there's actually more of them. There was a panel with Damian and dozens of them. So they don't even correspond to the Robins, really. You have the cheap joke of them saying "crow," and "bar" being like a stop word for them, but beyond that, it's like they're just little monsters. Perhaps clones? I don't think they've been explained, but I haven't read every issue.

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They are

spoilers:

the kids that were jokerized at the start of the issue.

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Trinity was just a whole bunch of nothing while the Batman that Laughs is the epitome of 90's edginess. And isn't even the fun, self aware one. Pretty art but nothing more.

[okiedokiewo]

They are

spoilers:

the kids that were jokerized at the start of the issue.

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I just have to roll my eyes at this point.

[G-Potion]

Soy's having fun.

It's moving.. a bit.

[Alycat]

Damn do I want to read just for this?

You should read it cause the whole thing is hilarious.

[kiwiliko]

You should read it cause the whole thing is hilarious.

Sad hilarious or comedy hilarious or a bit of both?

[Aioros22]

More art panels from Soy about the current arc:

[Aioros22]

Man, I want Wet Wet!

[Dark_Tzitzimine]

Sad hilarious or comedy hilarious or a bit of both?

It depends how much you enjoy over the top violence and edge to show how eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil a character is.

[Aioros22]

Sad hilarious or comedy hilarious or a bit of both?

Neither, it`s pretty straighforward.

My two cents, but just because everybody gets kilt, it doesn`t mean the story is on hilarious default mode. that`s the basic premise of these Nigthmare Batmen. I think the better ones are Sauron here (but not the best, I sort of feel they chickened out on the "robins" thing but that may not necessarily be a bad thing) the Murder Machine (the scariest and best written one, IMO), Red Death and the Drowned.

The rest were sort of meh to me although Merciless isn`t half bad.

[SpentShrimp]

Jason is 20 at most.

Then why does he look 16?

[SpentShrimp]

And with Tim beeing only 16, Jason should actually be only 17 or 18.

I think Tim is older since he got accepted into college. And Jason is over 21 hence him going to bars out of uniform.

[EMarie]

Tim going to college doesn't automatically make him older. Before Damian took over TT they had a funeral like issue for Tim. They told stories about him like when Tim told Bunker that he was going to his high school reunion because he graduated way early.

Jason going to bars in meaningless as he could get fake IDs.