{"id":4573,"date":"2010-11-24T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2010-11-22T22:37:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T03:37:16","slug":"fathers-and-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/24\/fathers-and-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers and Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, I haven&#8217;t read any Batman comics regularly in the past few years.\u00a0 <a title=\"My Batman RIP Review\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2010\/03\/25\/batman-r-i-p-may-it-rest-in-pieces\/\" target=\"_blank\">I read <em>Batman: RIP<\/em> and didn&#8217;t care for it<\/a>.\u00a0 Even though I&#8217;m a HUGE Tim Drake fan, I walked away from <em>Robin <\/em>once it became <em>Red Robin<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;d simply had enough of the craziness in the Bat-verse and wasn&#8217;t interested in Grant Morrison&#8217;s take on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just like every other comic fan, I&#8217;m aware of Bruce&#8217;s death and subsequent return.\u00a0 I saw this image online and it caught me completely off-guard.\u00a0 It brought up so many emotions I didn&#8217;t even realize I had for these characters, it was like a sucker-punch to the gut.\u00a0 Almost makes me want to start collecting <em>Robin <\/em>again (well&#8230; <em>Red Robin<\/em> at least), regardless of my opinion of the Bat-books in recent years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Batman &amp; Red Robin - Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/bruce-tim.jpg\" alt=\"Batman &amp; Red Robin - Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake\" width=\"600\" height=\"939\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To read the pages surrounding this touching moment, check out <a title=\"Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness\" href=\"http:\/\/calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/full-circle.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Calvin&#8217;s Canadian Cave of Coolness<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-4573\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/24\/fathers-and-sons\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-4573\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/24\/fathers-and-sons\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" 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Here is the description of the book from the Green Ronin online store: Join the never-ending battle for truth and justice in the world's greatest super-hero universe, using the world's greatest super-hero roleplaying game! The DC ADVENTURES\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DC Adventures Hero's Handbook Super-Hero Roleplaying in the DC Universe","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/dcadventuresrpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2419,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/11\/geeky-christmas-ornaments\/","url_meta":{"origin":4573,"position":1},"title":"Geeky Christmas Ornaments","date":"December 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just thought I would share some of the geeky Christmas ornaments that adorn our tree. I love the Spider-Man ornament below.\u00a0 It's got great detailing and the webs in each hand are cool! Below is a cute Santa-Spidey! You can find a nice Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine below, complete with rolling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/ornament_spider-man1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3873,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/27\/review-batman-odyssey-1-by-neal-adams\/","url_meta":{"origin":4573,"position":2},"title":"REVIEW: Batman Odyssey #1 by Neal Adams","date":"July 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I should start off by admitting that I love Neal Adams artwork.\u00a0 This guy is a MASTER!\u00a0 An absolute master artist.\u00a0 He helped redefine the look of comics in the 1970s and he can still draw just about anybody under the table.\u00a0 Okay, with my disclaimer out of the way\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Neil Adam's Batman","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/nealadamsbatman.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":181,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/21\/batman-year-three\/","url_meta":{"origin":4573,"position":3},"title":"Batman: Year Three","date":"October 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently recorded an episode of Views from the Longbox with Michael Bailey in which we covered the 1988 story \"Batman: Death in the Family\".\u00a0 The episode should be available for download within in a few weeks.\u00a0 \"Death in the Family\" is the story in which the second Robin, Jason\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Batman Year Three","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/batman_y3.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":208,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/28\/podcast-appearances-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":4573,"position":4},"title":"Podcast Appearances","date":"November 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a heads-up\u2026 I appeared in a couple recent episodes of the Views from the Longbox podcast and The Unique Geek podcast. 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This first one comes from the recent Superman\/Batman #75 and is by Brian Azzerello and Lee Bermejo.\u00a0 This comic strip is all over the internet, but I first found it on Forbidden Planet International.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Joker and Lex comic strip - Superman\/Batman #75 - Calvin and Hobbes","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/joker_lex.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}