Uncover Dick Grayson’s origin story because the Boy Wonder in a trailer for Robin & Batman. The Eisner-winning inventive workforce of author Jeff Lemire (Candy Tooth) and artist Dustin Nguyen (Batman: Li’l Gotham) reunited for Robin & Batman, a restricted collection that chronicled Dick Grayson’s journey to turning into Batman’s sidekick and discovering his means within the DC Universe. Lemire and Nguyen are not any strangers, having collaborated on the profitable Picture Comics collection Descender and its spinoff Ascender. Robin & Batman introduced the duo’s inventive synergy again to DC final 12 months, and the writer has collected Robin & Batman #1-3 right into a graphic novel featured within the new trailer.
“I feel it facilities all the things round Robin, as a result of the e-book is about Robin,” Dustin Nguyen says. “It explores this relationship with Bruce, and never simply Bruce, however Alfred. It actually does take a whole League to boost Robin and make him who he’s.” As Nguyen is talking we see a few of his fabulous paintings, that includes the Justice League, who makes an look in Robin & Batman.
“Jeff [Lemire] and I actually made it the place everybody else is the way in which they’re due to Batman,” Nguyen continues. “I belief him with a terrific story and he trusts me with artwork in return. That is what I all the time felt creating comics needs to be. Whenever you learn a extremely cool story you wish to draw it, and then you definately draw it and you realize folks learn it and revel in it.”
Different paintings options the Teen Titans, who Robin was a member of alongside different sidekicks, and the Batman villain Killer Croc.
Robin & Batman Synopsis
The outline of Robin & Batman reads, “The legendary story of Batman and Robin has reached practically mythic proportions. The crime-fighting Dynamic Duo are all the time one step forward of the criminals they pursue and no case is simply too large for the pair. This is not that story. That is the story of a younger Dick Grayson, newly orphaned, struggling to seek out his means in a wierd, tough, darkish new world…that is the story of Robin and Batman.”
ComicBook.com’s Evan Valentine reviewed Robin & Batman #1 and known as it a unbelievable journey into Gotham’s previous: “Robin And Batman #1 feels good, whereby I used to be wracking my mind searching for faults however wasn’t capable of finding any. The story of Dick Grayson has been instructed numerous instances earlier than, however this looks like among the best retellings of Robin’s early crime-fighting profession beside the Batman.”
The title Robin & Batman is an homage to Batman and Robin, with the Dark Knight normally the main focus of the comedian identify and story. Since Dick Grayson is the main character, it is sensible to have his codename first. The hardcover assortment of Robin & Batman is on sale now and is priced at $24.99.