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Hi, I'm Silver. I post my fic (also on ao3) and sometimes comic rundowns. I like all the Bats, but I mostly obsess about Dick and Tim.

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this post has gotten way too long sfdsfdsfs anyway even more below the cut if you’re curious <3

Tim: *feeling kinda awkward bc people keep mistaking him for Dr Mid-Nite, would rather nobody mention how similar his suit is*

Pieter: "Red Robin looks uncomfortable, I'll try to lighten the mood with a joke :)"

I wish they teamed up during one catastrophe or other. If only for the running joke of their respective teammates constantly mistaking them for each other in the chaos.

Inspired by:

Red Robin #9
Batgirl (2009) #8

comics i like: nightwing 25

so I've never actually posted about this comic before because it's SO WELL-KNOWN - the comic that invented trainsurfing!! basically the most famous Dick & Tim comic ever!! - so it felt kinda unnecessary sdfdsfsd but look, what is the internet for if we cannot ramble.

one overall thing I love is its structure: it's a low-key "day in the life" comic. there's no big bad!! the whole comic is just "Dick & Tim hang out and chat while patrolling." but it manages to embed a whole lot of characterization and to develop their friendship along the way.

let's BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING:

#comic recs#dick&tim#dick grayson#tim drake#hoc scripsi#it's tricky trying to analyze this comic because i think actually a lot about what works best about it#is that it's very decidedly NOT flashy or show-offy in the writing#like. it's not 'artistic.' you're not meant to thrill to the glorious prose. it's casual & quick & snarky & easy to read#and so you can kinda zoom through it - which is important because the pacing mirrors the pacing of jumping around on the trains!#so it's snappy & you don't really think about what you're reading - but it's actually really nicely-done imo#it's grounded not just in dick & tim's dynamic but also tells you a lot about their other relationships#i feel like this sorta low-key dialogue is deceptively difficult to do well without making it feel generic#it's easier in comics imo to write dialogue when one character is Nice and the other is Antagonistic (a guy gardner-type)#because if you've got two characters who basically get along sometimes writers get kinda stuck#and all their characters who get along become ... nice ... but very same voice-y where you could swap them w/each other#but that's not inevitable!!! in this comic you very much can't swap dick or tim with bruce or alfred or helena or steph or babs etc etc#because the particular dynamic & issues & so on are all particular to them & to this point in their relationship#but without anybody staring out at the audience and announcing 'and Now we introduce this comic's Theme'#and that's just a really fun way to do slice-of-life imo

i'm reading old letter columns and it turns out that the dc fan-to-comic-writer pipeline has been going since 1968 dsdfdsfsd

there's so many interesting things happening here with the emotional distancing and the panelling

not even gonna touch on the inherent inevitable tragedy of i never wanted this for Dick i know what the cowl does to you vs i dont want to wear your skin when you're gone but no one else could ugh whatever

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