DC Comics announced Batman and Robin: Year One by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee.
The mini-series runs 12 issues long and interrogates how does a billionaire/ nocturnal crimefighter adjust to having a kid living in his house. It will also introduce a few new characters, like the mysterious mob boss named the General. The series will also feature classic villains and supporting cast members too, like Two-Face or Commissioner Gordon.
Check out DC’s official solicitation of the series.
In Batman and Robin: Year One, while Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out for answers, but it’ll take everything they have to navigate both sides of their relationship as father and son and dynamic duo, with Dick Grayson’s present and future hanging in the balance!
Creative Team on ‘Batman and Robin: Year One’
Writer Waid wants to emphasize that this comic is more concerned about the emotional journey for Bruce and Dick adjusting to a new lifestyle. Bruce in particular is completely out of his element on how to raise a kid like Dick.
“While Batman and Robin are the stars of this tale and get most of the panel time, at its heart, this isn’t a Batman/Robin story, it’s a Bruce/Dick story. It takes place only a month or two after Bruce adopted Dick, and it’s sinking in for Bruce that he has no idea how to be a father to a kid that age. He has no role model—his own father was long dead by the time he was Dick’s age. Nothing he’s ever done has prepared him for this, and Alfred—wise as he is—doesn’t have much experience here either.”
Illustrator Samnee talks about the differences between the two characters.
“Dick is everything Bruce is not—impetuous, flamboyant, reckless. But he’s also precise; he can stick a landing. He’ll take orders when they make sense to him, but he’s keen to improvise, testing his role within the Dynamic Duo. The first pages you’ll see will showcase how they’ll be acting, and reacting, as they adventure out into Gotham City on patrol together. We’re so excited for this story to finally be told.”
The comic actually is plotted by both Waid and Samnee. The creative team is utilizing a similar storytelling style as they did in their Black Widow series and run on Daredevil over at Marvel.
Mikel Janín, Matteo Scalera, Karl Kerschl, and Lee Weeks also provide a myriad of variant covers for issue one.
Batman and Robin: Year One #1 will hit comic book shops and digital platforms on October 16, 2024.
Source: DC.com
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