The award-winning artistic workforce of author Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee are again to tackle one other well-known pairing. DC has introduced Batman and Robin: Yr One, a brand new twelve-issue sequence from Waid, Samnee, colorist Matheus Lopes, and letterer Clayton Cowles that may inform the definitive story of the Dynamic Duo’s early days collectively.
Right here’s how DC describes the brand new sequence:
Whereas Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss known as the Normal has come to Gotham to say town by disrupting and destroying its different mobs. However what’s his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out for solutions, but it surely’ll take every little thing they must navigate either side of their relationship as father and son and dynamic duo, with Dick Grayson’s current and future hanging within the steadiness!
Batman and Robin: Yr One is the newest teaming for Waid and Samnee, who’ve beforehand labored collectively on critically-acclaimed runs on Daredevil, Black Widow, and Captain America for Marvel. Whereas Samnee’s most up-to-date inside work has been on Skybound’s Fireplace Energy with author Robert Kirkman, a lot of Samnee’s current cowl work has been on Waid-written DC titles like Shazam! and World’s Most interesting: Teen Titans.
Followers of Samnee’s have been clamoring for the artist to work on a Batman title ever because the artist started dedicating every year’s ‘Inktober’ to black-and-white illustrations of the caped crusader and his household, a month-long endeavor Samnee dubbed ‘Batober‘. Good issues come to those that wait, it appears.
In an announcement asserting the sequence, Waid and Samnee described the themes of the sequence, and the place the dynamic duo are of their relationship because the guide opens:
“Whereas Batman and Robin are the celebrities of this story and get many of the panel time, at its coronary heart, this isn’t a Batman/Robin story, it’s a Bruce/Dick story,” mentioned Mark Waid. “It takes place solely a month or two after Bruce adopted Dick, and it’s sinking in for Bruce that he has no concept tips on how to be a father to a child that age. He has no function mannequin—his personal father was lengthy lifeless by the point he was Dick’s age. Nothing he’s ever accomplished has ready him for this, and Alfred—smart as he’s—doesn’t have a lot expertise right here both.”
“Dick is every little thing Bruce will not be—impetuous, flamboyant, reckless,” mentioned Chris Samnee. “However he’s additionally exact; he can stick a touchdown. He’ll take orders once they make sense to him, however he’s eager to improvise, testing his function inside the Dynamic Duo. The primary pages you’ll see will showcase how they’ll be appearing, and reacting, as they journey out into Gotham Metropolis on patrol collectively. We’re so excited for this story to lastly be instructed.”
Together with a major cowl by Samnee and Lopes, Batman and Robin: Yr One #1 will sport variant covers by Mikel Janín (open-to-order), Matteo Scalera (open-to-order), Karl Kerschl (1:25), and Lee Weeks (1:50). Take a look at the covers by Janín, Scalera, and Kerschl beneath, and search for the primary situation of the twelve-issue sequence to reach in shops and digitally on Wednesday, October sixteenth.
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