Action Comics #594

[shankie]

Today is, apparently, Jason Todd's birthday.

Early this morning I was going through some random issues of Action Comics, and came across this one. From 1987, Robin meets Superman for the first time.
















For today, I'm going to pretend that one issue of Nightwing just never happened.

Comments

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

For today, I'm going to pretend that one issue of Nightwing just never happened

Um. I'm pretending that nothing's happened in Nightwing since Issue 115*, if not Issue 100. And there's an alternate history from Nightwing 107 to Nightwing 124 (I trust Marv Wolfman to pick it up again at issue 125). Actually, can I just roll the entire Bat family with the exception of the Birds to pre- War Games and have an alternate history from there please?

But there are reasons people voted to kill off Jason...

* Getting engaged to Babs then disappearing for a whole year with nothing being mentioned is the real icing on the cake.

[victoria-wayne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Babs thing wtf. My friend who's big into those two was pissed.

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

I'm not a Dick and Babs fan - I like them both but that relationship is pretty clearly dysfunctional with them both wating a Robin/Batgirl relationship and trying to hang onto that - but the only thing that makes any sense is that even up until Nightwing 117, it was meant to be Dick rather than Kon killed in the Crisis (and the new Nightwing being Jason). Even if that is the case, both Dick and Babs should deal with that proposal and vanishing in their own books rather than simply ignore it.