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POLL: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3

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Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 12:00 AM


Battle for the Cowl #3

 Creative team: Story/Pencils by Tony S. Daniel; inked by Sandu Forea

Well, it's official. Nightwing is the new Batman.

And, if you think about it, that makes Jason Todd the new Joker.

Think about it. The mechanism that made the Batman / Joker pairing so fascinating was they were always two sides of the same coin. They were both born of tragedy -- but each chose radically different paths from that point.

In the same way, Nightwing and Todd share similar origins: Both became Robin. Both were separated from Batman. And both had to react to Batman's departure.

In respect to that last point, Nightwing chose to react to the absence of a Batman by carrying on the best of what the Dark Knight stood for. Todd chose to pervert the very worst.

Battle for the Cowl #3, aptly so, features a climactic face-off between the two erstwhile boys wonder.

The first of many.

POLL: I predict Nightwing will be Batman for XX months before the return of Bruce Wayne
 
 15% (70) 3
 
 24% (108) 6
 
 15% (67) 9
 
 25% (112) 12
 
 18% (82) Forever... the next Crisis... which ever comes first
439 people have voted in this poll. (This poll is not active.)
CaffeinatedRamblings
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goon

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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 09:20 AM (#47987)

Jason Todd has quickly become one of those characters that you love to hate. I'm guessing he won't be wearing the Red Robin costume again anytime soon.


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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 10:06 AM (#47989)
In Response to CaffeinatedRamblings (#47987):

Jason Todd was always the character we loved to hate. In fact, we loved hating him so much that we voted for DC Comics to kill him.


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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 12:20 PM (#47990)
In Response to Splinky (#47989):

HA!
I wonder if we can do that again...


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jpt2342
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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 04:20 PM (#47994)

quick question. The second to last page shows Damean as Robin. Does that mean that Tim Drake is going to take up the role of Nightwing?


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Guigar
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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 06:11 PM (#47996)
In Response to jpt2342 (#47994):

Oooh! That *is* a good question!


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cisko
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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Friday, May 29, 2009 - 06:11 AM (#48006)

I'm most curious about the relationships Dick is going to have with Bruce's rogue gallery. I've always liked that even though they were on two different sides, batman and his villains had respect for each other. I wonder how the old rogues are going to act now that the Boy Wonder is now The Bat.


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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 11:57 PM (#48033)
In Response to jpt2342 (#47994):

I'm thinking Tim is going to take on the role of Red Robin...and Jason Todd will take on the identity of a very sadistic Nightwing....


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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Monday, June 01, 2009 - 04:24 PM (#48039)
In Response to CaffeinatedRamblings (#48033):

Man, we should start posting odds on these. If they're not already planned arcs, they really should be...


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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Monday, June 01, 2009 - 05:56 PM (#48041)
In Response to Guigar (#48039):

Crisis of Infinite Robins


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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - 12:13 AM (#48043)
In Response to cisko (#48006):

I'm hoping it will be similar to how Barry's villains treated Wally. The Batman villains may be insane, but few of them are slow. I expect them to recognize it is someone else in the Bat Suit fairly quickly.

Like how Joker knew instantly that it wasn't the real Batman he was facing during Knightfall.

Theno


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Re: Review: Battle for the Cowl #3 (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - 08:17 AM (#48049)
In Response to Guigar (#48039):

Agreed!


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