Too many damn sidekicks

>>85413183
>8 robins, 3 batgirls, batwoman, etc
>No problem
>black sidekick
>Too many sidekicks

>>85413183
Because about half of DC's total sales are probably bat related.

>>85413239
Nobody likes pandering, tumblr

>>85413239
>>85413324
From what I understand Duke was already part of those Robins in the "No problem" category right?

>>85413239
We also bitch about Harper. And it got bad recently, when they decided to bring bakc Steph and Cassandra.

I balme the Snyder/Tynion combo.

>>85413183
I agree but
>jasonfag
opinions are incorrect and disregared

>>85413183
Whatever happened to those other Robins? The ones that Jason, Damian, and Tim picked?

>>85413454
Teaming up with Jason is stupid.


Smacking that little shit is something else

>>85413183
Duke's actually good when a capable writer writes him.

Jason should have been the last Robin.

He also should have stayed dead.

Bruce not letting Duke be Robin is really racist.

>>85413239
>perfect opportunity to bring in batwing
>nahhhhhh

Although he just got popular from his We Are Robin ongoing so it's not like he completely came from nowhere.

>>85413239

>Batman's way cooler when he's by himself, or at least with Nightwing, and Babs.


Don't you need to read when you're on tumblr?

>>85413500
Jason existing is bad.

>>85413283
>It's probably no real surprise that Batman continues to be DC's most lucrative property, with 54 of their 100 placing titles being Batman or Batman-related ("Nightwing," "Batgirl," et al), totaling over 562K copies sold, larger than many publishers just with a single family. Those 55 titles are split with some 32 of them being "New 52"-era stories, and 23 of them being "classic" stories.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/tilting-at-windmills-bookscan-2015-analysis

>>85413537

>perfect opportunity to bring in batwing

Palmiotti ruined the BATWING concept forever.

Luke Fox is a terrible character that not only took the appeal off Batwing but also fucked up the Fox family.

>>85413518
Are you implying that a Robin with a mixed Middle Eastern background is less desirable to an African-American and should be replaced?

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>>85413515
factually correct

>>85413789
They sure never show said ancestry and are content with making him Bruce Jr

>>85413183
Batmask?
Really?
Yellow, annnnnd a Batmask?

He's going to look so stupid, and I'm going to love it.

Please DC, keep face planting on all fronts, it's really reminding me why I stopped reading when Nu52 began.

Dick>Damien>Tim>Jason

Duke is not robin, and therefore will never be regarded as a true batman sidekick, just a temp gimmick

>>85413889
Dick and Tim suck though

>>85413183
>Batman's way cooler when he's by himself, or at least with Nightwing, and Babs.
this so goddamn hard. This is all we needed for thirty fucking years
bruce, dick, babs. that's it. that worked great. in most of the public's eye, that's all that existed.

>>85413889
Damian > Jason > Dick > Tim

Damian and Jason actually have interesting characters that can go in multiple directions when under good writers, Dick is entertaining but is often shallow even when under good writers, and Tim is just drab and is double redundant since Dick is often redundant.

>>85413819
He had green eyes and much darker skin in RSOB.

But anyway, it was just a reminder that if we start awarding Robin mantle based on race and diversity alone, Damian, like always, has few aces up in his sleeve.

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>>85413515
Best Robin is here to stay. Deal with it.

>>85413239
No harper, Damian, now duke. Batwoman should have stayed her own thing. Cassandra and spoiler should have broken off by now and Jason should have stayed dead.

>>85414183
>>85414259
Jason is a more valuable character being dead, just like Barbara is best when disabled as Oracle. You know it's true.

>>85413183
Batman is best when he's alone or with dick as Robin. Other robins were a mistake, nightwing was a mistake

>>85413889
>>85414183
Can I ask how you faggots can like Damian? He's the worst aspects of any robin without a pro and any potential he's and any potential he's had is going to be impossible to squeeze out of. He need's a bane moment to be fixed as a character but he's never going to get it.

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I wish Tim would use this costume again. It's the perfect mix of the Robin and Batman costumes. It feels like a good thing for a graduated Robin to wear.

They should let Tim fuck off to another city for a while and let him be the main guy there. They don't need an ongoing or anything, just let him show up for certain events.

>>85414346
>he didn't read Son of Batman

>>85414346
I usually like characters that people don't like in universe, and in the comics, Damian usually gets BTFO regularly.
Now movie Damian is absolutely awful and should be murdered immediately since nothing is there to humble him, he has gone through the same lesson every damn movie, and is a worse mary sue than Batman.

>>85413183
>implying

>bat knows once he's gone the world might be worse off
>begins creating a network of trained, intellegent and willing people to make the world better

It'd be better without the campy title of side kicks but I actually really like the idea.

Imagine in the future that the league of super heroes has a shadow group of the bat legion.

>>85414371
The Damian in son of batman is never going to happen so my issues with him remain.

>>85414346

Tsundere

>>85414468
But... it already happened. In Son of Batman.

>>85414296
Apparently not since Jason's had an animated movie and a video game about him, and will probably in an important character in the DCEU and Injustice 2
Despite Dick and Tim supposedly being the more popular Robins, Jason and Damian have gotten way more than they have for the past few years

>>85414348
Mid-nite should've sued Tim

>>85414296
Nah, love having Red Hood around and he's the reason why I even bothered with the batfamily.

>>85414493
I was thinking of that future book.

>>85414554
Nobody should ever think of that book.

>>85414468
>Damian, Son of Batman is awful.
Robin, Son of Batman is Damian solo and continues from Tomasi and Gleason's B&R. I dare you to read the first six issues by Gleason and not to like Damian at the end.

>>85413183
They should have kept using Harper instead, they already had a new sidekick and it was better than Tim Drake 2.0

>inb4 Harper hate

No one likes new characters at the start, it happens with everyone

>>85414499

It seems they think Tim has reach the end his potential to draw in new readers. It may even be true.

/co/ seems extra butthurt about Jason today. Did something happened with him recently?

>>85414760

Scott Lobdell will do that.

Even Red Hood was starting to lose his appeal.

>>85414760
Oh definitely. Dick usually has that role where he's not Batman, Robin, or Batgirl, so if Tim isn't Robin then Tim is just an even more redundant Dick.

>>85414796
Red Hood is semi-confirmed to be in Injustice 2.

>>85414796
99% chance he's going to be in Injustice.

>>85414893
>>85414960
>bad game with bad story features a bad character

I see no problem there

>>85415015
better to be important than to be fridged in a completely embarrassing way like Dick was desu

>>85415054
>fridged

?

>>85415081
Dick died so Damian and Bruce could be pissy at each other

>>85414893
>>85414960
Oh, I understand now and good for him.

>>85415015
Sure, anon.

>>85413183
Because there where three options on the table when Damien died.

Carrie Kelley- the Tomasi option
New Robin- the Snyder option
Bring Damien back- the Gleason option

They wierdly went with all three

>>85415100
>Dick died

Really? He pulled a Jason? When?

>>85415198
In the game it's mentioned that Damian killed Dick and that's why Bruce doesn't consider Damian his son

In the comic it's revealed that it was an accident and that Damian threw a stick at Dick, hit him on the head, and Dick fell and broke his neck on a rock.

yes, you read that right. And yes they consider the comic canon to Injustice 2.

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>>85413558
this, I fucking called in to vote for his death in the 1980s. My dad was so pissed I called a 1-800 number

>>85415247
>In the game

Oh. I thought it was somewhere that mattered. Isn't Nightwing in the game anyways?

>>85415270
the main universe version yes, but he also has like 3 or 4 lines in the entire game

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>>85415256
You are a hero, anon. We wouldn't have got Red Hood without your vote!

As Red Hood Fan, Thank you.

>>85415326
>being happy about discount Punisher

it's even worse because somehow Batman gets the blame when in the original story he did nothing wrong for once

Batman is bulding his own army and preparing his legacy through sidekicks.
When he retires, other people will be ready and experienced to protect Gotham.
The Batfamily will later take sidekicks, and the cycle will continue.

>>85415376
Jason has always been discount-someone-else, his fans love a discount-writer, so it's OK

>Dick
>Jason
>Tim
>Damian
>Barbara
>Stephanie
>Cassandra
>Harper
>Duke
>Luke
Yeah, I'd say there are too many. I mean there could be even more floating around out there if they keep bringing back old continuity. We have this many already in DC's shit 5 year timeline.

>>85415521
>When he retires
That isn't going to happen. Snyder's vision is that Bruce clones himself and he stays Batman forever.

>>85415908

But most of them are not (anymore) sidekicks. You are probably talking about the batfam.

>>85415944
As it should be, Batman would never want for one of his sidekicks to carry the weight of his crusade

It would be better if they actually allowed Gotham to be fixed but that's never going to happen

>>85416006
None of them could handle it anyway and that's why Terry should exist

>>85413183
>lose your family
>create your own

i don't see the issue.

>>85416436
Other than the Robin idea being extremely flawed

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>>85415256
Holy crap you sick bastard

>>85416436
>lose your family
>put your new one in danger constantly and treat them like crap
well alright

>>85413508
>good writer writes a character good

So a person is doing their job properly?

>>85415256
does anyone have the actual advert for this? i've never seen it

>>85415521
>When he retires,
This will literally never happen in any mainstream comic excluding Morrison future batmans we'll never get a permanent Bruce replacement ever.

hi tiarawhy

>>85414296
Jason works better as the member of the batfamily who sees the other side of the coin

Hes been so poor hes had to steal to survive, and is at home on the streets, rather then the rooftop looking down from it. No other robin scratches that itch.

Dick is to much of a swashbuckler, Damian is to removed from the real world, and tim is too....i don't know.

Because DC is Detective Comics Comics

They need to milk the hell out of the Batman name so making as many Bat-Characters as they possibly can is only ever more beneficial

>>85413183
>Batman's way cooler when he's by himself
>Batman was cool from 1939-40 and then never again

>>85419063
Batman has a lot of stories when he's buy himself you know
LOTDK at the beginning was all about this

>>85413183
They got to get rid of those Bats on Larks costume and give him something more unique.

also the slowburn has worn pretty thin this ordeal it's time to shit or get off the pot.

>>85413183
Get rid of the mouth part on the mask and it's 100% better.

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>ALL THESE BATFAMILY MEMBERS
This is enough. Christ.

Obviously Barbara can be crippled and replaced.

>People upset over a Legacy character actually leaving behind a legacy
Uh, okay.