We Are Robin #1

[informationgeek]

"I think I’ve said this before, that the central idea of the book is: there’s one thing to want to be part of a movement; you see it on facebook and twitter all the time. “Right, rock on. #WeAreRobin.” It’s one thing to do that and feel part of something, but it’s another to actually step up and do it, to go out and help people, and to make your city a better place.

And not every one of these characters is going to have that in him or her. There’s a very interesting to me possibility, to talk about what are heroics in general. Is that just putting on a domino mask and beating up bad guys? No, it’s a broader concept than that. I think that plays well into a book with lots of different kids from lots of different backgrounds and interests and skill sets and fears. From that point of view, it’s going to run the gamut a bit broader of what the concept of a hero in Gotham City is." - Lee Bermejo

Writer: Lee Bermejo
Artists: Jorge Corona & Khary Randolph
Breakdowns: Rob Haynes
Colorists: Trish Mulvihill & Emilio Lopez



One of the new DCYou titles that came out in June was We Are Robin, which is surprisingly not getting a lot of attention around here. Let's fix that and take a look at the first issue!

Taking place after the events of Batman: Endgame, we focus on Duke Thomas (he was the kid Batman saved during the comic). He just got the snot kicked out of him by some local kids and is now in Leslie Thompkins' office.









When he gets a chance, Duke takes off and continues his own private search for his parents (thinking that he regrets doing this to Leslie, but feels it would be for the best if he did the searching himself). As he tracks down a lead, the group of teens who were texting are following him from the shadows.

Eventually, while searching an area deep below Gotham in an abandon subway system...

"...and I know all have more to offer than the world above would have you give. That world only takes."













And that's the first issue. What did you think?

Comments

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

...that woman is Leslie? WTF?

[silicondream]

I guess they threw her in the makeover machine alongside Amanda Waller, Jay Garrick and Alan Scott. The old(er than 30) and the fat(ter than Megan Fox) have no place in the hawt nunuDCU!

[thenicochan]

I feel like it's not Leslie. It's an imposter. A much, much younger imposter.

[jlbarnett]

I like the idea. Except for the fact DC keeps slaughtering trained and powered teen heroes

[beyondthefringe]

Don't worry!
These kids are neither trained nor powered!
Well, they bring various skills and experiences to the table, but they're not exactly up Bat-standards...

When this issue first came out, I knew exactly who the mastermind behind the Nest had to be. People dismissed the idea. Then it turned out to be that person. It was painfully obvious, if frighteningly... what's it called when you enable teenagers to risk their lives in Gotham City? Oh yeah, "Tuesday."

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Who's the mastermind?

[jlbarnett]

"Amnesiac" Bruce Wayne? Alfred? Joker looking for more Robins to kill?

[janegray]

Granted, in Gotham City you risk your life just by being alive. Between attempts to poison the water supply every few months, random attacks of Joker gas, giant plants sprouting from the ground to wrap buildings up, bombings, gang wars, serial killers, cannibals, breakouts of plagues, earthquakes, etc etc etc... I guess you could say at least the kids get to go out fighting?

[capnduckman]

You mean Leslie?


... Cause, I haven't read this, but I totes call Leslie.

[donnblake]

I had a solid fifteen seconds of thinking that the gloved hand was emerging from the Bat-Camera, rather than in a separate panel. I was sitting here actually saying "What? Wait, what?" aloud.