tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post114195907566857722..comments2024-03-09T13:14:56.299-08:00Comments on Silver Age Comics: Robin's Romance With BatgirlUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12464833.post-55427769793256695332015-01-12T15:46:40.803-08:002015-01-12T15:46:40.803-08:00So I think we know now who Dick lost his virginity...So I think we know now who Dick lost his virginity to then? I mean, it's fairly obvious, isn't it? Kind of a sweet little touching bit of backstory that usually never gets (and never *should*, tbh) discussed in-universe :D<br /><br />Everyone does it, we all wonder weird, silly, stupid and private things about our heroes and etc. "Does the Thing have an orange rocky penis?", "Does Wolverine indulge in bestiality when he turns feral?", "Does the Hulk have green toejams (and other bodily excretions?", etc. etc. etc. etc.<br /><br />And for the most part, those discussions are fine, healthy and funny...and they should be left exactly where they belong: on the schoolyard playground where the recess and lunch bell rings :I but all too often, grown up children at comics-books companies make "stories" out of retarded concepts that stem from ideas like these and don't really belong anywhere but in the silly, *unprinted* imaginations and discussions of underdeveloped, underexposed and overaged adolescents and pre-teens.<br /><br />It's really quite refreshing to see a cute little story of young love such as this because, even if it necessarily skirted around the issue and kept things rather *innocent*, it still showed exactly what the power of inference and the technique of "show don't tell" does when they are used to heighten the events rather than to spell out blatantly for all to see ("Hey, Batgirl...you wanna do sex?", see? Doesn't really have the same effects :D)Sinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643121348126645818noreply@blogger.com