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Batman: Red Hood - The Lost Days
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3.5 stars
Jason is far from my favorite Robin (out of the five main-line Robins, I would honestly put him at the bottom of the list), but he's probably the one I think about most often. He's one of those characters that gets sadder and more fucked up the more you think about him, but there's a huge gap between his resurrection and confrontation with Batman, so naturally I had to figure out what he was doing during that time.
Plot-wise, this comic is pretty simple. Jason gets resurrected (via an off-page Superboy-Prime punch through reality, which I think is stupid, and I like the Lazarus Pit resurrection way better, but whatever), Talia takes an interest in him as a way to try to win favor with Batman (another note: I think the al-Ghuls' crazy obsession with Batman is also kind of stupid, but again, whatever), and he spends most of the book training with different killers on al-Ghul money and gaining the skill sets that will eventually come into play in Under the Red Hood, thwarting a couple of low-lives along the way.
Character-wise, there's a LOT to unpack. We see how much being Robin, the manner of his death, and the aftermath fucked with Jason's head. I mean, hell, he sees himself as some sort of vengeful wraith brought back from the dead to enact the justice Batman won't dole out, and he becomes pretty irritated at any comparisons of himself to Batman (despite the fact that training under Batman for so long clearly affected his ideas of + desire for vigilante justice). And then there's his grief about Batman leaving the Joker alive and replacing Jason with Tim.
Good stuff, but there wasn't quite as much focus on this side of Jason as I would have liked (a lot of training and gushing over how terrifying and awesome and unstoppable Jason Todd is, etc.), and it wasn't as groundbreaking as I hoped either. Although, maybe that's just because all the Batman message boards before reading this spoiled me. Either way, it got me wanting to read Under the Red Hood (more than I already did, anyway) to see how this all plays out.
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Jason is far from my favorite Robin (out of the five main-line Robins, I would honestly put him at the bottom of the list), but he's probably the one I think about most often. He's one of those characters that gets sadder and more fucked up the more you think about him, but there's a huge gap between his resurrection and confrontation with Batman, so naturally I had to figure out what he was doing during that time.
Plot-wise, this comic is pretty simple. Jason gets resurrected (via an off-page Superboy-Prime punch through reality, which I think is stupid, and I like the Lazarus Pit resurrection way better, but whatever), Talia takes an interest in him as a way to try to win favor with Batman (another note: I think the al-Ghuls' crazy obsession with Batman is also kind of stupid, but again, whatever), and he spends most of the book training with different killers on al-Ghul money and gaining the skill sets that will eventually come into play in Under the Red Hood, thwarting a couple of low-lives along the way.
Character-wise, there's a LOT to unpack. We see how much being Robin, the manner of his death, and the aftermath fucked with Jason's head. I mean, hell, he sees himself as some sort of vengeful wraith brought back from the dead to enact the justice Batman won't dole out, and he becomes pretty irritated at any comparisons of himself to Batman (despite the fact that training under Batman for so long clearly affected his ideas of + desire for vigilante justice). And then there's his grief about Batman leaving the Joker alive and replacing Jason with Tim.
Good stuff, but there wasn't quite as much focus on this side of Jason as I would have liked (a lot of training and gushing over how terrifying and awesome and unstoppable Jason Todd is, etc.), and it wasn't as groundbreaking as I hoped either. Although, maybe that's just because all the Batman message boards before reading this spoiled me. Either way, it got me wanting to read Under the Red Hood (more than I already did, anyway) to see how this all plays out.
(view spoiler)
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
August 7, 2024
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Finished Reading
August 8, 2024
– Shelved
August 16, 2024
– Shelved as:
comics
August 16, 2024
– Shelved as:
superhero-fiction
