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Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #122 - "Always Leaving, Never Staying" (2024)

written by CRC Payne art by Starbite, Vadynea, & Jace Camedon

feel like one day the batfam would just grow fed up of jason bragging that he died once and use it against him

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Jason: You know i died on-

Bruce: My son died once, it was a very hard time for us all we spent it grieving

Jason: …

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*Jason walking in with a stab wound*

Dick looking at the dagger clearly alarmed: What happened baby bird?!?

Jason: No big deal, nothing compared to my de-

Dick: you know my baby brother died once, he could die again, I’m going to get B to bar you from patrol since death is so traumatic for you.

Jason pausing wide eyed: WHAT?!?

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Tim: cool shirt steph

Steph: Thanks i tye dyed it with cass

Jason: You know i died once

Tim sighing and looking out the window wistfully: It wasn’t you that died jason, it was the mAgIc iN rObIn

*steph cracking up*

You ever see art of a character you love, and it's like, "You didn't make a bad piece but you didn't capture what makes this character themself."

Like, it's fine art, it looks nice or whatever, but that's NOT the character you love

Just in case any of you were over this yet. I know I’m not. :’)

I feel a connection to jason todd’s character because I understand what it means to have all this anger stored inside you that stems from love. from wanting love. I think all hurt children do.

yes, it feeds and grows from your vulnerability and insecurity, its planted from the seeds of never having been given a consistently supportive community during the formative years of your life. and so now, you don’t know how to trust any form or expression of love even the slightest bit different from your own. it’s never trustworthy. you’ve never been able to rely on anyone’s feelings except your own.

you love so intrinsically. every connection you’ve made leaving a lasting mark on your soul. yet you can’t see evidence of your existence leaving the same mark on others. so you get angry. and you try to hold on to that hate born from love. your love is bright and blazing and passionate and slowly dying from a lack of fuel.

but what makes you the angriest is that you still love every single one of those people; the people who have left you, disappointed you, or abandoned you and yet the only thing you seem to want, to need is for them to still love you too. despite it all.

through the anger and hate and dreaded indifference, the only thing plaguing your mind is why you can never seem to make the people in your life who’ve told you they love you stay.

Bat Family Fact Files from DC Comics: The Ultimate Character Guide

Baby's first bat family. Sorry, there wasn't a Black Bat.

My favourite bit is that Steph's epithet is "Daring Defender" while Tim's is "Daring Detective".

GIF version (low quality) under:

(“the weather warmer, he is colder”)

— Army Dreamers, Kate Bush

Batman (1940-) #426

Batman (1940-) #427

Task Force Z #6 (2022)

You tell him, Jason.

sorry i just wanted to call batman funny names