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Jul222011

No Time For Five

DateFriday, July 22, 2011 at 12:00AM | AuthorTravis

DC released a preview of the new Justice League book coming out in September. The book starts the the ominous heading “Five Years Ago” and shows Batman being hunted by GCPD as heros aren’t encouraged. Presumably, the story will jump forward to when heroes are accepted and the Justice League rocks the world. The thing that we can’t figure out is if Batman has only been Batman for roughly five years or so, then what about the Robins?

You’ll notice that the comic shows the procession of four of the five Robins. If we’re trying to cram everything into 5 years, Stephanie would have to have been Robin for all of five to ten minutes before Batman would have donned a Black Mask mask, beat her, then whisked her off to Africa himself. Fortunately, it looks like only non-black haired Robin is still alive in The New 52 as DC has mentioned on two different panels at Comic-Con that Stephanie Brown will reappear at some point in the future. There hasn’t been any mention of Cassandra Cain yet. Now that we know Stephanie is still around, I’m still hoping for my Steph/Cass buddy book.

Other than the Stephanie Brown news, there were lots of little tidbits that came out of DC’s The New 52 panel. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents will make its return later this year, but Xombi will not, dead after four issues. While it sounds like everybody is getting de-aged slightly, it looks like some are getting younger than others. According to Dan Didio, Roy Harper is young enough that it doesn’t make sense for him to have a seven year old daughter. Debates of how old you can be before you have a child aside, I’d approximate that means that he’d be in the 23-25 range. This fits with the “just out of college” age that Barbara Gordon Batgirl will be. However, just from a look and stature of the Nightwing artwork, Dick Grayson looks older than that even though he was originally a contemporary of Roy and Barbara. The more I look at things from the reboot, the more it feels one will need to let go of all preconceived notions from the current universe to make sense of the new one. If that’s the case, it’ll be a hard sell for current readers.

Travis, what’s on your pull list?

Travis, what’s on Kris’s pull list?