[SPOILERS
below for the most recent issue of Detective Comics.
No, I don't think the title of this post is a spoiler, just a
self-evident statement that's been true since the Nineties]
Sometimes
you love a character because they're a precious little cinnamon roll
who has done nothing wrong. Sometimes you love a character because
they're a self-destructive idiot and you enjoy watching the
trainwreck.
So Tim
Drake's back from the dead and being an idiot.
The thing
about Tim Drake, a thing that I love about him, is that he's an
arrogant little son of a bitch. I adore him but he absolutely is. He
has that problem of being so often the smartest person in the room
that he relies on it and tends to have a massive blindspot for how
other people are going to feel about his decisions, especially when
he doesn't explain that he's even made a decision.
Right now
his decision is to embrace the future he's glimpsed where he becomes
Batman. His plan before that was to set up Batman with a team and
then swan off to Ivy Town for university and making the world a
better place through computer science. As far as Steph Brown, his
girlfriend who is very pleased to see him alive again, that's still
the plan. Tim is being Tim about thing and changing the plan whilst
assuring himself that she'll see how good the new plan is and come
around to it without him actually explaining himself.
Yay for
emotional honesty in relationships, am I right?
James Tynion
really gets Tim's characters because this is the perfect Tim move:
its essentially selfless (he's giving up his dreams to alter his
destiny and avoid becoming a fascist dickbag); its logical (because
fighting this destiny actually causes him to become a fascist
dickbag); and, most importantly, its going to explode in his face.
Hell, he even has Kate, a woman who admits to being the crappy
partner in most of her relationships, telling him he's being an idiot
and he's just not listening.
I look
forward to seeing the flaming ruins of his arrogant good intentions
in the future.
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