Friday, May 23, 2008

Spoiler of the week!

Yes I'm being cute with the title...

Anyway in this week's Robin, the Boy Wonder decided to finally get to the bottom of the identity of the new Spoiler by bringing in the big guns...

...only to find out that the new Spoiler is actually the old Spoiler!
Yep, Steph's back - cause-celebe of an area or two of the blogoverse! You know, if I need to tell you this then you're probably new here...

In any case, Robin responds to the return of his thought-dead ex-girlfriend the only way anyone would - by going in for a snog.


Steph cools it and asks if she's welcome back - and its about then that Tim realises that Bruce didn't lay one on her aswell so obviously he knew all about her being alive all along...

...and indeed he did.



Well, kind of. So he suspected all along that Steph may not have been dead and that's why he didn't put a memorial in the cave. Well...okay....anyway, back at the cave and after Alfred restrains from slipping Steph some tongue too, Bruce lays out exactly what happened and Steph explains why..

...and whadda you know, its just what I said a few months ago.

There's a few good bits here - first off it explains the whole memorial thing which got so many people's backs up. It's almost enough to make you think that it was planned all along, actually.

Almost.

It also brings a couple of people back into play - not only Steph, who's a great character in her own right but also Leslie Thomkins who, now that she's no longer responsible for the death of anyone, is free to return to Gotham. I suspect that Alfred may give her a smooch.

Not only that, but this is the first time that Bruce reveals his identity to Steph. Granted, given that he's now Tim's adopted father this might not have been too difficult for her to work out, but even so...

Anyway, Steph's back!

What can we complain about now?

5 comments:

Gordon D said...

Rich - just give it five minutes; somebody will think of something.

For me, it's "Where's the Showcase Edition of the Inferior 5?"

Yes, I am on that again, why do you ask?

Mike Haseloff said...

*Groan*...

Nick said...

Two issues later....

Random blogger: Where did Stephanie go?

Jasper said...

Stephanie Brown is one of my FAVORITE characters. I was in shock after reading this issue. Although, I kinda saw it coming a mile away(thanks for being subtle, DC) I have never felt that way after reading a single issue. I had planned to blog about this several days ago, but it looks like you beat me.
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Jonathan Nolan said...

If they planned that then I'm Chinese.

And I'm not Chinese.