It's Only the End if You Want it to Be

shawnvanbriesen:

Mera. Ink and brush on 11 x 17 Bristol board.

Wow, this is so gorgeous!

addude:

I’m not sure what to think.

Is it wrong that the first thing that came to mind was that I want them back together like they were before the reboot?

#what. #WHAT. #oh no i don’t know what to think #on one hand #otp interacting #on the other #otp interacting in the dcnu #being written by lobdell i’m guessing? #raven mind controlling gar into fighting the teen titans for trigon #oh no i’m….intrigued…. #in an awful creepy way #this is raven and gar’s first meeting in the dcnu too haha wow 

Yeaaah, I…

… On the one hand, I’m happy for Raven and Gar to be interacting again?

On the other hand, it looks like all their history’s been erased (surprise, surprise!), this is being written by Scott Lobdell who is about the last person I trust to write any of the Titans (past or present), and overall I… really am not sure I like this.

buccillustrations:

As requested, my request drawings have been made rebloggable, but I’m going to group a bunch of them together so I don’t spam up your feeds and my own tumblr. 

Wonder Girl and Robin goofing off together, as requested by luanna225

*squeals with excitement* Thank you so much for drawing this for me!! And thank you as well for making the drawings rebloggable, like I requested. :-)

This is absolutely adorable! I love how Dick is just nonchalantly reading while Donna has him up in the air like that, haha. And yay for Donna being a strong and powerful Amazon in every sense of the word!

This is wonderful! <3

the-art-of-obsession:

From Robin: Year One.
I was just remembering that I saw a panel just like this with Damian?

Yep! It’s from Streets of Gotham #10:

And for comparison, here’s the full scene with Dick:

I’m not sure if it was an intentional reference (it probably wasn’t), but the two scenes are very similar, most definitely.

daggerpen:

Also, am I the only one who kind of misses this costume for Roy?

I mean, the sunglasses were kind of silly, but I like the bodysuit itself. The Navajo influences were really neat.

No, I liked this costume too. I think it’s my favorite of grown-up!Roy’s costumes. The Red Arrow costume (and the name itself) were too “exactly like Ollie, but red” for my taste, you know? The whole Arsenal shtick was more about Roy as an individual, which I like better.

If you look at a history of Roy’s costumes, I really do think this one was the best of the bunch (can we talk about his original Arsenal costume because YIKES). I like the Navajo influences, too. It’s VERY depending on the artist, and there’s room for improvement, but overall it’s not a bad look. I like how Phil Jimenez drew it in my background picture:

(Phil Jimenez could probably make a character wearing a garbage bag look good, though.)

… Also, LOL, that cover never fails to crack me up. xD

apocalypsey:

fyeahdickgrayson:

dorkery:

[Batman and Robin #9]

Dick, you have no right to be this pretty.

I never get tired of Cameron Stewart’s Dick Grayson.

God he’s so gorgeous

*nodnod*

graydaughters:

robinless:

varlandgear:

You weren’t at the funeral. People asked about you.

Dick really fucked up with Jason. Both Bruce and Dick did, in a sense. I think that’s why he was such a good brother for Tim.

Uh, how did Dick fuck up again? For one thing, he was on another planet when Jason died, and for another, Bruce even didn’t tell him about Jason’s death.

# i want to type out a long rant but I have to head out in a few minutes # i can’t recall where these particular panels are from though

They’re from New Titans #55. (The issue where Dick finds out about Jason’s death. Also the infamous Bruce-punches-Dick issue.)

And thank you! I was going to comment on this myself, but it’s nice to see that my work has been done for me. :-)

Frankly, I’ve always been amazed that Bruce actually had the nerve to try and turn this around on Dick, when he was the one who, y’know, couldn’t be bothered to tell Dick that his little brother had died, let alone when the funeral was. (Not that this was an isolated incident - in this time period, Bruce seemed to love trying to blame Dick for situations that he himself had created, which tends to make me distinctly uncomfortable when you consider that transferring blame is one of the key signs of an emotional abuser. And when you add in the fact that this scene ends with Bruce punching Dick in the face and throwing him out, the abusive undertones here become… well, not really undertones anymore. I could go on for quite a while about how disturbing I find all of this, but, uh, I should probably stop here.)

I mean, I get that Bruce was grieving, but the way he acts throughout this entire issue just makes me cringe. (Which is the point, of course… but that doesn’t make it less painful to watch.)

discowing:

Dick, you’re so spoiled.

#honestly dick #i mean really #he’s such a rich kid though #like he’d totally deny it because he’s from the CIRCUS #but in reality he’s basically been a billionaire since he was eight  #damian is the most spoilt no-one can argue with that #but i think dick and tim really do take being incredibly rich… well  #not exactly for granted #but they’ve never had to worry about money themselves ever and that obviously gives a certain perspective #on life you know  #obviously they’re batkids they’re hardly sheltered #but it wouldn’t really occur to them that having no money is a thing that could happen to them #(jason is a whole nother story but these tags are long and stupid enough already)

It isn’t really true that having to worry about money is something Dick’s never known, though. In New Teen Titans #60 (I don’t have a scan, but I’ve just read this recently so you’ll have to believe me), there’s this scene where Mr. Haly is telling Dick about how even in the “good old days”, the circus was barely breaking even in terms of money. And if the circus was barely breaking even, the performers were getting paid next to nothing, including Dick and his parents.

I wouldn’t necessarily say Dick worried about that (Mr. Haly comments in the same scene that no one cared if the circus was struggling because “we were having fun!” which is, I think, the attitude Dick was raised to have about money - it doesn’t matter how much or how little you have, as long as you’re doing something you love), but his family did struggle financially somewhat. He certainly wasn’t poor on the level of Jason, or even Steph, but the Graysons weren’t exactly rolling in spare cash, either.

I think a lot of fans tend to assume (see: this post, for example) that because the Flying Graysons were so awesomely talented they must have been totally rich and famous, but the canon doesn’t really support that, IMO. There doesn’t seem to be much canon evidence that they were necessarily even particularly well-known, and it’s outright stated that the circus struggled financially. I mean, the thing is… show biz isn’t an easy business, and being awesomely talented isn’t necessarily a guarantee of financial security. Even Harry freakin’ Houdini had times when he was down to his last five dollars.

That doesn’t negate the privilege that Dick came into when Bruce took him in, but it’s still a necessary distinction that, unlike Bruce and Tim and Damian, he wasn’t born into that privilege. (Something Bruce outright states in this scene - “Dick wasn’t like me. He didn’t come from a world of privilege.”)

What is true is that Dick has something of a “rich-boy” attitude in that he has no problem solving problems by throwing money at them, and I could find you example after example of that. (“Haly’s Circus might be going out of business? No problem, I’ll just buy it!” “Bounty on Amy’s head? No problem, I’ll just pay more!” “Oh, and Bruce, could you just buy me this building? And this one and this one and this one. You’re the best!”)

It’s interesting because as a rule, Dick doesn’t seem to like the idea of living off of Bruce’s charity (one of the reasons he works for a living, even though he has no financial need to), but when he sees a way that he can use money to help someone or facilitate his work as Nightwing, he has absolutely no problem asking Bruce for huge sums of money - or using his connections.

I tend to think wealth and privilege are things Dick isn’t entirely comfortable with - he’s more at home in a small apartment than a mansion - but he also has no problem using them to his advantage, especially for something he considers a good cause. In that second aspect, he’s a lot like Bruce, who (IMO) sees money mainly as just another tool that can be useful in his larger mission. The difference is that Bruce, having been born into a life of wealth, feels more natural in that lifestyle than Dick does.