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Originally posted by: theredbaron
I've read a million and one Batman TPBs, but I only just picked up Batman #650 last week. I read it and thought it was pretty decent, but it raises a few questions for me, that I'm hoping one of you guys can answer. I know he's been running around as the Red Hood for the last year, killing crims and stuff like that, but riddle me this:
1) How did Jason Todd come back to life?
2) Why is he such a freakin' psycho?
I read A Death in the Family about two weeks ago, so I know all about Jason Todd's death. But it pisses me off how Jason won't take responsibility for his own death now. Batman laid down the law from the start, told Jason he had to take a break from being Robin. HE ran off across the Middle-East looking for three people who *might* be his mother. HE didn't wait for Batman to come back before they took down the Joker together. It's HIS fault. The only mistakes Batman made was not kicking his ass for disobeying him and not taking Jason with him when he was stopping those medical supplies from shipping...
In fact, Batman's only mistake was trusting Jason Todd too much. If proof's in the pudding, then Jason couldn't even be trusted with his own life...
I've read a million and one Batman TPBs, but I only just picked up Batman #650 last week. I read it and thought it was pretty decent, but it raises a few questions for me, that I'm hoping one of you guys can answer. I know he's been running around as the Red Hood for the last year, killing crims and stuff like that, but riddle me this:
1) How did Jason Todd come back to life?
2) Why is he such a freakin' psycho?
I read A Death in the Family about two weeks ago, so I know all about Jason Todd's death. But it pisses me off how Jason won't take responsibility for his own death now. Batman laid down the law from the start, told Jason he had to take a break from being Robin. HE ran off across the Middle-East looking for three people who *might* be his mother. HE didn't wait for Batman to come back before they took down the Joker together. It's HIS fault. The only mistakes Batman made was not kicking his ass for disobeying him and not taking Jason with him when he was stopping those medical supplies from shipping...
In fact, Batman's only mistake was trusting Jason Todd too much. If proof's in the pudding, then Jason couldn't even be trusted with his own life...
Very true and kinda forgotten by comic readers aver the past several years. Jason Todd's return has just been recently explained in Batman Annual #25 which came out a couple of months back: http://comics.ign.com/articles/677/677822p1.html.
The heart of the story is in the right place but I think it relied too heavily on 'Infinite Crisis' to give it an 'out'...
**spoilers**
If you've read any Infinite Crisis then you know that Superboy Prime, led on by Alex Luthor, had been hammering away at the walls of their 'heaven' which caused ripples in the very fabric of reality until the barrier actually shattered. This gives DC an excuse to say that any retcon stuff they want to pull was caused by the ripples in the universe... and that is exactly how Jason became alive again. The rest of the annual lays out what happened to him and his mental state because of being dead. If you can just kind of ignore the whole 'ta-da! I'm alive' bit then the rest of the story is a good read.
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