![]() So it's good, but as with most recent Lemire comics, the real strength of the volume is Dusting Nguyen's artwork, just wonderful (though Robin reminds me too much of Tim, the boy bot from Ascender/Descender.Īn awesome miniseries. There's a hug that happens later, with Bat telling Robin he's a good boy (not just good superhero-in-training). There are sweet moments: A surprise birthday party featuring Superman and Wonder Woman, though what Alfred sees Dick needs is a more intimate gift, a closer relationship. ![]() Enter the guy that raised Bruce Wayne, Alfred, who plays a kind of mother to Wayne's father, angrily confronting him along the way. So this is what Lemire does, father-son stories, where the father needs to learn how to be a father.īut Bruce Wayne's parents were killed, and he doesn't really know how to be a father what he knows is his work, and how to develop Dick into Robin, which is a somewhat different thing. ![]() ![]() This is NOT titled Batman & Robin, as in the the sixties TV show song, but Robin & Batman, having as its focus Robin/Dick Grayson developing his relationship to Batman/Bruce Wayne. I am cutting back on my comics reading, especially DC/Marvel stuff, but I try to read all the Lemire work I can, and try to minimally keep reading Batman stuff. ![]()
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