Duke and Damian interact during Robin War.
And yes, they're mostly bonding moments - but in general, that's what you get in superhero comics, I think. Repeated moments form our understanding of relationships.
I mean, as a Steph fan, I definitely feel that (I think except for my poor Batwing, she got the least focus in Tec), but I trust Hill's storytelling sense and ability. A lot more than I trust Snyder's, at least when it comes to Duke.
Yes - if it's in the trade, definitely should be considered canon. But...we'll have to see.
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Ok, so I was thinking about something and i wanted to get you guy's thoughts. So the source wall's broken, it's affecting the entire DC universe because of all the cosmic energies leaking in. it's particularly messing with metahumans. How would you guys have it affect Duke and his powers? positively or negatively.
According to this solicit, yes, it does: https://www.newsarama.com/39480-batm...d-someday.html
Collects BATMAN AND THE SIGNAL #1-3 plus stories from ALL-STAR BATMAN #1-4 and 6-9 and NEW TALENT SHOWCASE 2017 #1.
I think that's quite a nice collection - and maybe that's why the mini was only three issues. Though I still think it needed at least one more. Maybe it was an issue with the art?
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Based on Tony Patrick's tweets, I think DC specified that they only do 3 from the beginning. I remember after #3 he mentioned they had a lot of ideas that had to be cut for length. The delays however, were because of the art. The series definitely could have benefited from one or two more issues. All the best stuff was in the third issue, so extending the mini and stretching that climax out to give the villain more depth and give Duke more time to show what he can do would have made the series damn near perfect.
Right now, I would vastly prefer writers to work with what Snyder and Tony Patrick developped. Duke already has great powers for a Detective/stree-level vigilante, a potentially two-tiered Rogue gallery (Gnomon at the top, possibly with his own House of Immortal, the Juvie Arkham for less massive story arcs), a whole lots of problems to deal with by day, both personnal (his cousin, Riko and Izzy) and metahumans (some peoples from the Narrows must have retained their powers after all). So, overall, I think that writers shouldn't start to upset the little status quo he has just yet.
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That's a good point. DC does have a lot going on for Duke that they could still play with and flesh out. I was thinking they could've used the metahuman outbreaks from the cosmic radiation as a way to jumpstart Duke's rogues and deeper mythos. Like it would be the reason why Gnomon's getting more active in Gotham. Or have it be an excuse to explore Duke's powers, kinda like Beast Boy losing control of his powers because, based on what Gnomon told Duke, there might be more to Duke's abilities we don't know about. Implied immortality, him boosting the other metas, etc.
Yeah, I can see that being the reason that they would mandate it only being 3 issues.
For what they are charging it's not.
You are only getting 160 pages of stories for $20.
Black Lightning's trades are $20 with 200+ pages.
Batman vol 5 is the same amount of pages but $16.99.
You want better sales that price should reflect what Batman's is.
No one could dig up 68 more pages to add? Like his first appearance? Sketches? script? an exclusive story? You have Batman's name on it-that will get extra sales-so you might as well pack this trade as much as you can. Because this is your package to sell Duke to.
I suppose that depends on your point of view. To read all these stories originally you would have had to pay a total of $59.88 (39.92 of which was All Star Batman for the backups Duke was in). I think I much rather pay $16.99 (the solicit doesn't say $20.00 BTW) for all of that. Would I have loved more pages there? Sure but still its a steal price-wise IMO.
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are there going to be unique villains set up for Duke? Teen/young adult villains at all?