7 Completely Insane Team-Ups In Recent DC Comics
Before 2018, who would have ever imagined Jarro as Batman's next protege?
Team-ups and partnerships are pretty standard tropes in comics, and they often make perfect sense. Batman teams up with Superman because they're friends and colleagues who share similar goals, personal codes, and motivations. Some of them, however, make a bit less sense, and occasionally they're the end result of the writers just throwing all rationality and convention straight out the window.
Over the past couple of years, DC has really been ramping up the intensity and insanity in their comics with big ridiculous over-the-top stories, and even some bizarre pairings.
The current Justice League series started out last year with stories involving The Flash's Speed Force-powered racecar, Atlantis' towers launching like missiles into space, and the entire Earth becoming a White Lantern, to list a few things - but the weirdest part of the recent comics might actually be the partnerships some characters have forged.
Some of these characters came together to fight an existential threat, and some paired up for more personal reasons. The only things all these partnerships have in common, however, is how utterly absurd they are, and how fun that absurdity is to read.
7. Batman And Jarro
If you haven't been following Justice League comics for the past year, you likely missed out on Jarro, who's arguably the most memorable addition to the team in recent years.
Jarro - a smaller, immature version of the classic Justice League enemy, Starro - imagines himself as the newest and greatest Robin, and calls Batman "dad".
Bruce seemed uncomfortable with it at first, but more recently has warmed up to the little starfish, and seems to really be leaning into the paternal mentor role.
Even if we overlook the absurdity of a grown man who dresses up like a bat to throw sharp metal objects at the costumed crooks adopting a sassy psychic starfish from outer space as his protege and adopted child, the stark contrast in these two characters' tones is about as extreme as possible.
The tonal contrast works perfectly though, as Jarro's wholesome, but bratty demeanor and comic relief seems to soften Bruce's edges.