“In my unique pitch, Damian Wayne was the Robin,” she says. “And as soon as Gabriel and I acquired to know one another, he was like, ‘, I’m simply actually unhappy as a result of I actually liked Dick.’ I used to be like, ‘Nicely, I actually love Damian.’ And Damian is so my velocity.”

As she was crafting the latest e book within the collection, Garcia got here up with a plan. 

“Working with my two editors, Courtney Jordan and Kristy Quinn, I type of secretly reworked the Robin e book and I discovered a method to have each Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne. So Damien is launched in Beast Boy Loves Raven type of halfway by, after which the massive second in Robin–which comes out in 2023–is that Dick goes to be on the web page in a BIG WAY!” 

Garcia tells us that Teen Titans: Robin may be very a lot a narrative of two brothers, with each Damian and Dick looking for a manner by the complicated relationship that they’ve been gifted by their father. 

“Damian doesn’t know Bruce and will get dropped off by his mom on the doorstep, and Bruce already has this sort of adopted pseudo adopted son,” she tells us. “In order a child who’s by no means identified his father, Damian feels very changed, you already know, like, ‘My dad didn’t need me.’ However that isn’t truly true, as a result of as we all know from canon Bruce didn’t find out about him. However as a 16 12 months outdated, it doesn’t really feel that manner if you meet his new son.” 

Whereas Damian struggles to come back to phrases together with his new sibling, Dick is much extra enthusiastic, one thing that causes a rift between the pair. “Dick is worked up to have a brother and desires to know Damian! However Damian desires nothing to do with Dick. He doesn’t wish to know him. He doesn’t wish to know Bruce. He desires out. And he type of will get absorbed into our new Titans group the place they turn out to be his discovered household. And as Dick goes out to search out his brother, we get to know him too.”