The Boy Wonder #2 (2024)
written by Juni Ba art by Juni Ba & Chris O'Halloran
I found this completely penciled out in one of my old sketchbooks. I don’t remember drawing it at all! But at any rate, I inked and colored it up. Good design exercise.
Character is Jason Todd (DCU, Batman specifically), song is “The Offer” by the Sectumsempras. (free download at LastFM) Basically, I am the geekiest person alive.
View at full size at my Deviantart, as Tumblr apparently hates big images.
I want someone to be affectionate with, without the stress of 'oh do they think of me in a romantic way'
TOOK FOREVER BUT SOOOOOO WORTH IT!
aka mY IDEAL BATFAM UNIVERSE TYVMUCHBYEEE
AND ANOTHER THING
jasons made a LOT of enemies, right? what happens when someone finds him, with intent to kill Or Worse and he can't Do anthing about it????? huh, Bruce? What now Bruce? You fucked up excuse for a deadbeat dad
woke: jason chooses romantic partners based on who will piss bruce off the most
bespoke: jason chooses romantic partners based on talia’s approval. it just so happens she judges based on if they’ll piss bruce off or not
some jasons and damians thats been piling up :]
(and tim and alfred the cat)
CRYING, SCREAMING, THROWING UP
MY POOR BOY OTL *SOBS*
Okay, let’s count the ways Act 3 drummed home Silco’s dedication to Jinx (in a really twisted way).
1.) Doesn’t take it personally when Jinx tortured him a little
2.) Has to be drugged by Singed because even Singed knows Silco could never watch Singed do what is necessary to Jinx
3.) Reaction of horror when he sees injured Jinx
4.) Stares down Vi on the bridge as he carried Jinx off
5.) Desperate to save Jinx’s life
6.) Willing to listen to and take actual useful advice from Sevika to give Jinx some space/makes an attempt to trust his relationship with Jinx
7.) Was ready to turn himself in to jail in Jinx’s place when he makes a deal with Jayce
8.) Has faith that Jinx is strong enough to survive the procedure.
9.) Threatens Singed with a knife when he wakes up and doesn’t know what happened to Jinx
10.) Finally starts to have more sympathy for Vander, the man he hates because of how he feels about Jinx vis a vis how Vander felt about his daughters
11.) Fiercely sides with Jinx’s new identity, the one that Jinx sends up deciding it the real her/is more the real her
12.) Credibly says that he would have turned down Jayce’s proposal because he would never turn her over
13.) Struggles desperately to free himself and shoots at VI imo arguably because yes he is also “competing” with Vi, but also because it appears Vi’s words are hurting Jinx
14.) His words are the ones that echo with her as she does her first big dramatic deed as Jinx (imo kind of like Vander’s “You have a good heart” ended up informing Vi’s journey, Silco’s “We’ll show them all” is that for Jinx’s journey)
15.) Oh right USING HIS DYING WORDS TO COMFORT THE PERSON WHO KILLED HIM
BTW, it’s one of those irony things that at least one of the things Jinx accused him of, that he knew all along that Vi was alive wasn’t true. He really wasn’t lying to her about that, Marcus had told him that Vi was dead. However, the other part of Jinx’s complaint that he tried to keep Vi and Jinx apart after he found out about Vi being alive is still true.
(note just because he really did love her in his own value system doesn’t change that he is still a pretty unhealthy individual about himself, ie clearly has deep insecurities about Jinx leaving him or getting hurt and very quickly falls back on fanning her insecurities)
Tales of the titans #3: donna troy is out now! please go read it and share with everyone!!
as a huge fan of donna i must say: this is pretty good and totally worth the read!! 📸✨
sorry i just wanted to call batman funny names