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I love how L*bdell decided to strip all nuance from Jason's family by making Willas a predator and domestic abuser that was routinely involved in crime, and Catherine, the poor rich girl who used drugs to cope with the trajectory of her life and neglected her child. All of this to make Bruce "actively endangering children" Wayne a better parent and somewhat rich saviour to Jason rather than the complex tragedy that was this family and how at the root of it all, they genuinely each loved each other.
I love how now in modern comics it's all about the Joker and his fuckass behavior rather than positively re examining the systematic exploitation of the middle and lower class in Gotham by the villans or the mob and the general class dynamics.
man, not to be melodramatic, but there is something like. genuinely a little disturbing about just how widely accepted rhato's WILDLY classist willis todd retcon is. in all my years lurking on the comic book internet, i've seen a grand total of one person really pushing back & being vocally pissed about it, and that's... so fucked, considering just how bad it is
people who have only read later comics at least have the excuse of only having been exposed to the post-butchery version of jason's origin, but there are WAY too many people who've clearly read his post-crisis robin run but talk about it like the changes lobdell made were these minor cosmetic tweaks
i don't know how you could read a story where the through-line is that this kid loved his parents (BOTH of them) so much, not even bruce wayne could relate to the intensity of his grief when he lost them... but NOT see a retcon that rewrites said parents to instead be neglectful, abusive caricatures of poverty whose son only learned about the concept of love and kindness by the grace of some virtuous rich fuck who takes him in in an attempt to teach him how to be a good person as anything but a fucking insult
"jason grew up in poverty on the 'bad side' of town" and "most of jason's childhood was spent in a (relatively) stable home with parents who loved him" are apparently just completely incompatible statements. because yeah i mean, obviously, it's a lot more realistic if he'd never experienced a single positive thing in his life before he met bruce, right? if literally every single person he'd ever met before bruce rescued him from the hell on earth that is a low-income neighborhood was a morally-vacant piece of shit?
willis todd's rap sheet in jason's post-crisis origin had not a single violent offense. the dude ran numbers and worked in chop shops. he was the criminal equivalent of a mechanic with a delivery gig on the side (and it's pretty heavily implied he was only even doing that because he wanted to be able to give jason a better life)
if that translates to "violent, morally bankrupt scumbag who beats his wife and doesn't give a shit about his kid" in your mind, i mean this in the kindest way possible, but i think you really need to do some introspection on why that is lol
Dubbing the N52 'the racialized misogyny reboot'.Like just look at it-'Kori' as a whole,the easian girl stereotypication against Cass when she was created to FIGHT it,no Tam or Lian or Mar'i or Nell,ragingly islamophobic Talia writings,total removal of Raven's indian-coding to make her a white goth girl(i support goth indian Raven and proper Bbrae and no,she can't be the 1st but not the 2nd and it HAS to be appropriate unlike the Titans Tv age gap-either that or canonized as a lesbian,no inbetween)that you CANNOT blame on the Teen Titans cartoon entierly seeing as there were still indian influences present with her there,the janky ass Jade slander,the lack of Natasha and Traci and Jenni,the creepy romances with Emiko and Damian that did an Arrowfam member dirty for a Bat's sake yet again and on and on and on!!!That shit is fucked up!!As an autistic latina black woman with superheroes as a special interest who started reading comics because of starting to selfship with Jason due to watching Utrh,i have no clue how y'all snowroaches be eating this up when Jason looks miserable in every issue of Rhato to have to put up with 'Roy' and 'Kori's mollycoddling and is clearly way happier and better written around his actual love interests who not coincidentally at all are woc and actually have personalities on their own and equal heathly dynamics regardless of wether you see the chemistry or not(Rose,Artemis and Dana),ntm him and DUKE for profound brotherly dynamics you want so bad which i did a whole other rant on in my tag for them.He deserves better fans than y'all and much more importantly the woc of DC deserve to be free of y'all's cluches as much as they do the DC writers because the asskissery y'all be doin' is crazy.Shut the fuck up about 'female-coding' and read comics.Decades worth.Readcomicsonline and the infinite superheroines reading lists are all yours.Don't post about DC until you're done,i'm so non-Joker.You can't be talking about woc like that white girls