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Summary
With a Modern set of Gotham friends , Red Hoodis finally becoming the Gotham hero he was always meant to be . Almost every fellow member of the Bat - Family has managed to grow up and move on : Nightwing left Gotham and got his own supporting cast , and Tim Drake went off to embarkment school with his own adventures . Jason Todd has always been stuck in the shadow of the Bat - Family , but that seems to finally be changing .
Throughout the story ofRed Hood : The Hill , including the first step issues by Shawn Martinbrough and Sanford Greene , Red Hood has his own supporting mold and seek to protect a part of Gotham that Batman does n’t usually chitchat . While this does n’t seem like that big of a narration development , these little status quo changes are immense steps for Red Hood as a character , as most members of the Bat - Family catch to fork out a long time ago .
While run in the Hill , Red Hoodmeets the Watch , a group of local vigilante that formed during the events of the Batman " Joker War " story to keep their part of Gotham safe . Red Hood decides to team up up with them to help them institute down a gang that ’s been trying to take over the Hill . This six - issue miniseries is one ofthe first time in Jason ’s history that he really got to have his own supporting castthat was n’t borrowed from other corners of the DCU , and hopefully , it ’s a drift that will continue .
Judd Winick ’s Red Hood will always be iconic , especially regarding one fabled and reference - defining costume feature of speech that sports fan still get laid today .
Red Hood Can’t Grow Without a Supporting Cast
Panel fromRed Hood: The Hill#6 by Shawn Martinbrough and Tony Akins, the Final Issue of the Series
Red Hood , as a character , has often struggled with actually decide who he is . It ’s no secret that of all the former Robins , Red Hood has had the biggest identity issues . Dick Grayson go from Robin to Nightwing pretty seamlessly . Tim Drake had his fourth dimension as Red Robin . Jason came back as Red Hood , buthe was n’t immediately a Italian sandwich . He spent some sentence as a brute villain to the Bat - Family , and then he spend some prison term as an anti - submarine sandwich who was forever at odds with the Bat - Family . Neither of these ways of delineate himself bestow themselves to Jason go out and finding his own property in the world .
While Red Hood has team up with other reference during his Outlaw days , they were never supporting graphic symbol to him , but rather their own character .
The biggest story elements thata comic fictitious character needs to cement themselves as true level leads are a unique emplacement and their own support cast . Jason has never had either of these while the other Robins got both . For instance , Nightwing famously moved to Blüdhaven , take him to his supporting form of the Blüdhaven police department and his apartment denizens .
While Red Hood has teamed up with other characters during his Outlaw twenty-four hour period , they were never supporting characters to him , but instead their own characters , like Arsenal and Starfire . This divergence from other Gotham vigilance man has stifledRed Hood ’s lineament developmentfor long time , but he might at last be impress past this want with the introduction of Strike and the Watch .
Red Hood Might Finally Be Escaping the Bat-Family’s Shadow
Will the Watch Return in Future Red Hood Stories?
Jason needs to grow as a character , and now that he has the location of the Hill and the Watch as his supporting persona , he might last be able to grow outside the Bat - Family ’s shadow . Jason will be appropriate to have fictitious character interactions and stories that do n’t revolve around the Bat - Family or Batman . He can actually grow as a character , as his risky venture wo n’t be tied to another main fighter , like they were in the Outlaws . Hopefully , Red Hood : The Hillwas just the first tone towardsRed Hoodfinally becoming his own persona with his own stories for fans to delight .
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RED strong-armer : THE HILL # 6 ( 2024 )
Jason Todd is a complex figure hump for his tumultuous journey as Batman ’s 2nd Robin . Initially impulsive and rebellious , he ’s resurrected after a tragical death , becoming the vigilante Red Hood . Armed with intense combat skills and a moral equivocalness , he challenges Batman ’s method , navigate a path between valiance and anti - heroism in Gotham ’s unforgiving street .
Jason Todd is a complex figure known for his tumultuous journey as Batman’s second Robin. Initially impulsive and rebellious, he’s resurrected after a tragic death, becoming the vigilante Red Hood. Armed with intense combat skills and a moral ambiguity, he challenges Batman’s methods, navigating a path between heroism and anti-heroism in Gotham’s unforgiving streets.
Jason Todd is a complex figure known for his tumultuous journey as Batman’s second Robin. Initially impulsive and rebellious, he’s resurrected after a tragic death, becoming the vigilante Red Hood. Armed with intense combat skills and a moral ambiguity, he challenges Batman’s methods, navigating a path between heroism and anti-heroism in Gotham’s unforgiving streets.
