I’m not going to lie, this was one of those story ideas that I was iffy about, every Robin and Robin-wanna-be as one big army to fight the Court of Owls in the wake of Batman’s (the real one) absence? This could have gone either really good or really bad and luckily, it went better than really good.
In-fact, it was better than really good. It was superb. Tom King was able to take something that could have easily been a goofy idea and make it so it fanboy dream come true. A realistic idea in a fantasy world. The notion that untrained vigilantism could cause great pain, distress, and civil unrest. Adding society’s lack of trust towards the police and the paranoia of people believing that secret societies are really running the show, with enough reality to suspend disbelief that a Batman or his sidekick Robin could truly exist.
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King is a magician in making the impossible happen, he’s made me a like Damian Wayne. Blending in the art of Khary Randolph, Jorge Corona, Alain Mauricet, Andres Guinaldo, and Walden Wong and we have a series that could become legendary.
Robin War is finally a Robin story that I want to read…something I haven’t said since Tim Drake got his own series. Let’s hope this level of writing for the Boy Wonder continues and hopefully January comes quickly, because I really want to see how issue two unfolds.
Robin War 1 is out today online and at your local comic book store.
