dead robins. dead robins everywhere

As I read Green Arrow '01 I've been going through Mia's simultaneous cameos in other runs, and that's how I found out about this little arc in Gotham Central #33-36, aptly named "Dead Robin".

The story starts when they find the corpse of a young boy dressed in a high quality Robin costume, with the tools to match, prompting the cops to wonder if he's the real Robin, aka Tim (who has a cameo here and there). At the end of the second issue a second dead boy appears, proving this was no accident, but that in fact they're likely facing a serial killer. A third boy (third Robin) is saved just in time before the end. The man behind it turns out to be a journalist obsessed with costumed vigilantes, who wanted to be "part of their world."

What drives me insane about this is the timing. Because if you look at the publication dates, this story arc started right after Jason unmasks himself before Bruce in Batman #641, and it finishes around the time UTRH picks up again (you know, after that little detour where Bruce ~investigates Steph's death just so he can be exonerated from it, at the cost of character-assassinating another female character).

Just imagining that while Jason was back in Gotham doing All That, this was all happening, with Bruce clearly going berserk during it (entering Arkham and assaulting every immate, breaking a cop's nose, scaring the living crap out of the perpetrator... and I know it's simply about lack of synergy, but it's interesting to me to think that for all of that, he -rightly!- must've not suspected Jason).

As I said. Insane asñflkjdsf. I can't wait to use it in fic.

Oh, and, please, behold:


Anything to say, Bruce?