tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post6868351431454263315..comments2024-03-15T07:12:40.918-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Red Robin: Seven Days of Death trade paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-28831011702947866302012-05-25T02:51:21.231-05:002012-05-25T02:51:21.231-05:00I actually enjoyed this send of, this ending of an...I actually enjoyed this send of, this ending of an era.<br />Tim was definitively my Robin, all the way from A Lonely Place of Dying through his 2 series, Young Justice, Geoff Johns' Teen Titans, etc..<br />I'll miss him, him and his silly earless Batman costume aka Red Robin.<br /><br />These last stories were fun, in a way they were sort of reminiscent of Chuck Dixon and Tim's entire run as a whole. I mean you had the likes of Red Star (New Titans!), it was nice to see the Mad Men back (from Ted's Blue Beetle, specially with Dixon trying to make a new Beetle outta Tim for a long while), etc.Eyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05350758607787528425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-54137858442747814922012-05-24T17:37:07.288-05:002012-05-24T17:37:07.288-05:00Interesting; I hadn't encountered that before....Interesting; I hadn't encountered that before. Well, the "eras" beyond Silver Age are subjective anyway; the point being that I think the character arcs of Tim Drake (and Wally West, and hey, also Connor Kent) "define" the Crisis on Infinite Earths-to-Flashpoint era, much like we might say that Barry Allen's origin-through-death defines the Showcase-to-Crisis on Infinite Earths era.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-231887169761465202012-05-24T15:36:01.186-05:002012-05-24T15:36:01.186-05:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_of_comicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_of_comicsNikosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-72659061399694999922012-05-24T14:26:50.924-05:002012-05-24T14:26:50.924-05:00I thought the Silver Age of comics ended with Cris...I thought the Silver Age of comics ended with Crisis, and the Modern Age/Bronze Age/what have you is what we've been in since then. Of course these kinds of things can only be judged in retrospect, but it does strike me that with all of DC's titles going "day and date" digital as of the DC New 52, and a spate of characters being relaunched/rebooted in a major way like the beginning of the Silver Age, that we've just left something (the Bronze Age, perhaps) and entered something else (the Digital Age). Just my take on it.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-85711650905245174772012-05-24T14:21:27.590-05:002012-05-24T14:21:27.590-05:00I haven't read any of the Red Robin collection...I haven't read any of the Red Robin collections, so I can't comment on them, however I noticed CE that you consider the end of Flashpoint and the beginning of the New52 to be the end of the Bronze age and commented that Tim Drake and Wally West were the embodiment of the Bronze Age. To my understanding the Bronze Age of comics ended with Crisis, and that the Modern Age/Dark Age began after that. Although it always struck me as silly to call it the modern age since every age would be modern to the people living it at the time.Nikosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-6513352500781505792012-05-24T12:35:45.166-05:002012-05-24T12:35:45.166-05:00I really enjoyed the Red Robin trades. It's a ...I really enjoyed the Red Robin trades. It's a shame he won't have his own series in the new 52. I think they could have skipped The Dark Knight for instance and continued with Red Robin instead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-73227428130356741742012-05-24T11:18:02.747-05:002012-05-24T11:18:02.747-05:00You might find you like some of the early Chuck Di...You might find you like some of the early Chuck Dixon Robin trades -- Tragedy and Triumph, Hero Reborn, and Flying Solo. Even as they're almost twenty years old, I think you'll see some similarities in Dixon and Nicieza's depiction of Tim's voice, since you enjoyed Red Robin.<br /><br />Some of the final pre-DC New 52 collections (<a href="http://collectededitions.blogspot.com/2011/12/list-of-final-pre-flashpoint-dc.html" rel="nofollow">our full list</a>) managed to give their characters good send-offs (Batgirl, for instance) and some didn't -- sometimes it just depends on how much notice the writer received. Red Robin is one of those you kind of have to squint and tilt your head -- you can imagine some closure for Tim at the end of this book, but it's not really *there* like it was for Batgirl. Oh, well -- overall Nicieza did a nice job.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-43669605633764306682012-05-24T10:50:01.617-05:002012-05-24T10:50:01.617-05:00I came in late to the Red Robin experience...Picki...I came in late to the Red Robin experience...Picking up The Grail and Collision partially as a completionist piece to Bruce Wayne's road home and found that I couldn't put it down. I ended up instantly a Tim Drake fan and started picking up the single issues with The Hit List arc. Hit list was good, weak in places but good overall. You are 100% correct when you say this story goes everywhere and anywhere at breakneck speed. I often found that I would have to backtrack through several issues to pick up where I left off because I wasn't sure if I missed something.<br /><br />It's interesting how some of the Pre-New 52 final stories were so eloquently completed as send off's to characters yet others were so sudden it was jarring. Not sure how you're following the new 52 but unfortunately Teen Titans, IMO, is not hitting on all cylinders. I don't want to prejudice anyone's opinion on it with my rant so I will leave it at that until the review of the trade goes up!Sheldonnoreply@blogger.com