Might I Bring To Your Attention How The Shadow Around Jason's Eye When He Says "don't Tell Me The World

Might I bring to your attention how the shadow around Jason's eye when he says "don't tell me the world isn't better off" looks like a domino mask, like sure it's scary he's killing people ooh look how dark he is but hey at the core he's still a vigiliante. Love that kind of detail, the Lost Days art is so full of things like that, it's clear the art is enriching the story rather than just serving it. I genuinely believe in order to have the whole of Jason's character in Lost Days you have to pay at least as much attention to what the image has to say, and not just the narration. Like, I feel that's true for all good comics, but I keep finding bits like that especially in Lost Days, it's so fun!

How comics treat Jason killing is so frustrating to me because it's always all or nothing. Either Jason just runs around killing anyone who you could label a criminal or Jason has to learn the error of his ways and give up killing.

But the Jason I like best in terms of killing is by far Lost Days Jason.

In Lost Days, Talia fears that Jason may have come back from the pit wrong. He wants to kill Bruce, and he wants to do it cruelly. She decides to see if more time will help, and sends him around the world training. And when he kills, because he discovered his teacher was a child trafficker? Talia is relieved.

In Lost Days, Jason's first murder is presented as a sign he still has empathy. His first act of killing is done to protect children. Jason's desire to kill may have started as revenge for his death but his choice to kill is because he saw children being victimized.

Jason goes on to kill other teachers and the pattern is clear. Harm to children, tainted drugs - these are what Jason kills for. Not some concept of "criminals bad". For concrete and specific crimes against vulnerable people.

Notably, we do see a teacher Jason doesn't kill!

I think this is interesting for two reasons: Jason acknowledged that this teacher isn't a good person - a merc! And yet! He isn't going to kill him. This guy is just a driver.

Lost Days shows that Jason doesn't kill indiscriminately. He doesn't kill someone just for being a dirt bag, for engaging in crime in general. Jason has a clear and easily discerned internal code of ethics for killing. He can stop himself without trouble. He doesn't kill on impulse. His kills are internally consistent and largely sympathetic choices to an outside observer. I think that's important.

I think Lost Days connecting Jason's choice to kill to Jason still having empathy, to Jason, above all, always caring about victims and children - I think that's what killing always should be for Jason.

diaryofadissembler:

165: They are out to get us.

"Duke squints suspiciously at the clementine.

The issue is not the clementine itself; it’s fine, a bright orange that doesn’t look poisoned, probably. He doesn’t know how one would even go about poisoning a clementine. Besides, according to what little he’s managed to figure out about Jason, the older boy is more likely to have drugged it than poisoned it, if he’s done anything to it; still, Duke would like to avoid getting drugged, but Jason can hardly bare to be alone long enough for it to matter. So, the clementine is probably neither poisoned, nor drugged, and the most he risks by eating it would be a healthy dose of vitamin C.

Still remains the question of what the fuck is going on with the clementine."

-The Protector, Chapter 12: Miracle in Reverse

drawing my og after too many moons of not 🙏 (redraw of this 3 year old drawing)

Look listen usually I don't enjoy jason with face scars or any excessive scaring I've mentioned it before but today I'm thinking about jasons scars all being healed after the pit in a metaphorical sense of him being given a clean slate a fresh start an opportunity to walk away unscathed and him choosing to go back to the fight in the process getting new scars in the end even more then he did before and it's kinda making me sick

i have come here Just to say HELLO !!!!!!!!!!

Hello!