WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Batman: Three Jokers #3, by Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, Brad Anderson and Rob Leigh & Red Hood & The Outlaws #50 by Scott Lobdell, Paolo Pantalena, Arif Prianto, and ALW's Troy Peteri, on sale now.
Batman has had lots of partners over the years, with many of them dealing with their own personal crises. Perhaps none have dealt with more pain than Jason Todd, the second Robin, and the current Red Hood, but this time his latest injuries are of a more emotional nature.
Jason Todd's had a pretty rough life all around, but in Batman: The Three Jokers #3 and Red Hood and the Outlaws #50, he suffers some serious romantic hits.
Jason Todd has been romantically involved with the Amazonian Artemis while working alongside her and the other Outlaws. The pair both have their own issues with their more heroic allies, and found empathy and understanding with one another. As the pair have gone through more battles and lost more friends, they've continued to find solace in one another. While staying briefly at Ma Gunn's, Jason and Artemis spend the night together. Jason even feels comfortable opening up to Artemis, revealing that he actually misses the scars he'd gained over his young life, only to have them fade away following his resurrection by the Lazarus Pit.
He even admits that he may actually love Artemis, which she calmly accepts while embracing him. After helping Jason assist the Joker's Daughter and giving her reason to leave behind the world of superheroes and villains, the pair take time to stop and look out over the desert. Artemis explains that she believes this is the end of their time together as Outlaws and in a relationship. It's not for any meaningful problem or lack of interest -- she just believes Jason has grown to the point beyond their romance and what it means in the long run to them. It's not something Jason disagrees with, but he does note that if anyone was going to make him want to be together forever, it would have been Artemis. It's a bittersweet and soft spilt, an amicable breakup almost unheard of in the hectic lives of the Bat-Family.
Jason's other romantic interest was far more dramatic, taking place in Batman: The Three Jokers #3. After helping save his life, Barabra Gordon took Jason to her apartment to rest in Three Jokers #2. The two shared a brief kiss while there, but nothing more came of it before Barabra resumed her hunt for the remaining two Jokers. Once Jason rejoined the search, he expressed an interest in continuing their potential romance but Barabra wanted to focus on the mission at hand. Later, Jason approaches her again but Barabra tells him they're clearly interpreting their moment together in different ways.
Jason seems to take the hint and leaves, but he ends up writing a surprisingly heartfelt note for Barabra, opening up about his true feelings for her and his genuine desire to be with her and cherish her. He leaves the message taped to her door and asks that they just talk about it or, if she has no genuine interest in him in that way, for her to just throw the paper away and never bring it up to him. What Jason doesn't realize is that Barbara never saw the note. It actually fell off the door before she returned home, and was swept up to be tossed out by her building's janitor. It's an emotional gut-punch for Jason that he doesn't realize wasn't even by choice, but by sheer bad luck.