DC has launched a trailer for Tim Drake: Robin forward of the primary concern premiere in September. After all, there have been a number of heroes and sidekicks to tackle the Robin mantle, with Batman’s son Damian Wayne additionally utilizing the moniker. Tim Drake is the Robin who used his detective abilities to infer that Bruce Wayne and Batman have been one and the identical, and has headlined his personal solo sequence on varied events. Maybe the most important information for the character is when Tim Drake got here out as bisexual. The author of that story, Meghan Fitzmartin, is teaming with artist Riley Rossmo for the continuing Tim Drake: Robin sequence, which has a brand new splashy trailer a month out from its debut.
“Tim Drake is again and prepared for motion! Author @megfitz89 & artist @rileyrossmo1 have crafted a brand new thriller and villain to problem Robin like by no means earlier than,” a tweet from the official DC account reads. Fitzmartin is then proven on a video name, the place she discusses the qualities that make Tim Drake such a captivating character.
“He’s the neatest. He’s the detective. He’s the one which found who Batman was,” Fitzmartin mentioned. “The humanity of Batman is so helpfully understood via the character of Robin. The core of Tim Drake is that his intelligence is completely paired along with his empathy.”
Riley Rossmo added, “We had a pleasant chat on the telephone speaking about the entire detective stuff.” Rossmo additionally revealed how the comedian incorporates elements of Sherlock Holmes and Scooby Doo. Uncolored pages from Tim Drake: Robin #1 have been additionally proven within the trailer, together with a take a look at Tim’s new hideout in a Gotham marina.
Meghan Fitzmartin’s tenure writing Tim Drake started in 2021’s Future State: Robin Everlasting, and carried over into Batman: City Legends, the place she wrote his popping out story in “Sum of Our Elements” alongside artist Belén Ortega, colorist Alejandro Sánchez, and letterer Pat Brosseau. Fitzmartin can be writing the Dark Crisis: Young Justice miniseries that reunites Tim Drake with Superboy (Connor Kent), Impulse (Bart Allen), and Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark).
The solicitation for Tim Drake: Robin #1 is beneath. The difficulty goes on sale September twenty seventh.
- TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #1
- Written by MEGHAN FITZMARTIN
- Artwork by RILEY ROSSMO
- Cowl by RICARDO LÓPEZ ORTIZ
- One Yr Later Period variant cowl by JORGE JIMENEZ
- Harley thirtieth variant cowl by DAVID BALDEON
- Debut Period 1:25 variant cowl by SWEENEY BOO
- Young Justice Period 1:50 variant cowl by DAN MORA
- Teen Titans Period 1:100 variant cowl by JAMAL CAMPBELL
- $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card inventory)
- ON SALE 9/27/22
- Step apart, Damian—the world’s favourite Robin has bought this! That is proper, after years away, Tim Drake is taking heart stage in a brand-spanking-new Robin sequence of his very personal!
- A thriller over a 12 months within the making takes form, as a brand new villain who’s been hounding Tim from afar decides to take issues up shut and private, placing Bernard and everybody else Tim cares about in peril as issues go from dangerous to worse for the world’s oldest and canonically tallest Robin [no, I will not be fact-checking that]. All that and Tim lastly carves out a nook of Gotham Metropolis only for himself, and units up store in his very personal…homicide shack boat? Fan-favorite author Meghan Fitzmartin groups up with beloved Harley Quinn artist Riley Rossmo to outline the following chapter in Tim’s life.
- And as if that wasn’t sufficient, escape your skateboards and bikes cuz we have assembled a assassin’s row of artists to attract the Nineteen Nineties’ One True Robin™ in his varied seems to be from over time!