Red Robin #8

[sistermagpie]

Red Robin is basically about Tim's transition from boy sidekick to adult hero, starting with Tim being angry at Dick's kicking him out of the nest and fighting to keep hold of his "boy wonder" role as Robin, but in trying to hold on to it learning (imo) that he's outgrown it.

There's already been a running theme of Tim announcing that he's about to die, only to not die, almost as if he's step by step coming to accept that there is life after Robin.

I scanned these two pages because they seem to encapsulate what Chris Yost is going for in this series in terms of what Tim's about and what growing up (not sure if that's the right word) is about.





At one point Tim tells someone "I know who I am," and that seems to basically be the theme of this series. Everybody's joked about how everyone Tim loves gets either killed or threatened with death, so I like the way Yost focuses on him coming to understand that he carries those people with him in a way. For Bats, fighting ninjas is therapy.

Suggested tags: char: robin/red robin/tim drake, char: tam fox,creator: chris yost, creator: marcus to,publisher: dc comics,title: red robin

Comments

[schala_kid]

I wasn't thinking anything dirty until the "Conner's own special 'techniques'" part.

Not reading Red Robin but this looks interesting.