iesika: (spanking)
Man oh man, does Frank Miller have issues. 1-9, in fact, of All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder. Probably the rest is nearly as bad, but I've only read the first collection. I just finished it a little while ago and O.o I had to put my reactions down because (I repeat) O.o!!!

ExpandIn brief (but not brief enough to avoid a cut) )

I...I can't even begin to discuss how...weird I feel after reading that. As someone said in a comment to a story I read last night (comment is what prompted me to go looking for All Star), "Unlike Miller, I prefer my Robin consenting."  I'd like to dismiss the whole thing out of hand, but it's made me think.

Bruce and Dick are supposed to be at odds with each other. They always have been. They represent completely different things. I would even call it canon that Bruce was an abusive and neglectful 'parent' figure - though I don't think he was (often) physically abusive. We've seen him punch Nightwing in the face when he was upset about something else. They probably sparred too rough when Bruce was mad about other things. We know Dick all but ran away to New York (and occasionally Metropolis, which is why I like Clark/Dick so much) when he was too young to be on his own and still searching for somewhere to belong. We know he demanded his emancipation, and we know how hurt he was when Bruce replaced him with Jason. We know how fucked up Dick is emotionally, if we read between the lines (or read him as Marv Wolfman writes him). It's sort of fanon that Dick is in love with Bruce and measures everyone in his life against him. And he's definitely angry at him, all the time, even when he loves him. A lot of people (including me) believe Dick kind of hates Bruce, deep down, though he doesn't know it himself. The people who make canon say it's all about adolescence and growing up and becoming your own person, but there's a lot more to it than that, and Bruce is nobody's happy father figure.

What's scary about All Star is that it makes a weird kind of sense. It brings all those nasty undercurrents to the surface. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

I can't find a way to wrap this up coherently. Fandom with multiple, incompatible canons is weird.

Also, I made a couple of new icons last night, with comic scans. I don't know why...I only ever use the bookrat icon. Except today, because Robin being spanked was...entirely too appropriate.

August 2017

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