There were
never enough scenes of Tim and Cass having dick measuring contests.
That might sound an immature way of describing their dynamic but I
stand by it. Here was had the two Bat-characters who had some claim
to being better than Batman: the girl who could outfight him and the
boy who could out-think him.
And in their
later pre-Flashpoint incarnations as Black Bat and Red Robin they
bounced off each other amazingly. They didn't get enough chance to do
it, Cass' chronic lack of a series saw to that.
Grief, was
DC ever had a bigger missed opportunity than Cass as Black Bat? She's
still Cass Cain but she's operating as Hong Kong's Batman! Hong Kong!
Just imagine the stories a setting like that could have generated.
Ugh, water
under the retcon, I suppose.
Anyway, one
way Rebirth has done right by me is putting these two in the same
title. True, Cass is a very different character (and I do like the
new Cass, mind) but I do hope they delve into this dynamic again
sometime soon.
And if I'm
lacking enough sass in Detective Comics there's always Tim and
Steph's relationship to tide me over...
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