We Are Robin #3

[informationgeek]

"Yeah, there need to be stakes. That's been done subtly in other ways in the book. I'm a stickler on showing damage. If kids get hit in the head — I think if any character gets hit in the head, you should see the damage that causes. I think it's important in general to not have violent actions in comics not be without the consequences that come with that action.

So I really want to show that doing this vigilante thing has consequences. And sometimes the price to be paid is pretty high." - Lee Bermejo

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



Picking up where we left off in the second issue, the Robins have located two time bombs being set to explode and take out some location. They call the "Nest", which turns out to be another girl part of the Robin movement, for some help...





Back on the surface, the homeless army is descending upon the people...









Meanwhile with the riot...



Robo Bat-Bunny shows up and defeats most of the homeless army, but...



Back with Duke and the others, they can't seem to defuse this other bomb (the wiring and mechanics seem different). As such, The Nest sends for them a subway car to pick them up and get them out before the bomb blows. However...







And so our comic ends with this...





"The Nest must go to them."


More later...

Comments

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

So Alfred is Nest...?

And why does he have a hook hand?

[silverhammerman]

The Joker chopped off Alfred's hand during Endgame because he's so xtreeeeeem.

[chalicother]

Yeah....so for some reason he choose not to contact any of the other hero's such as Batwing, Batwoman, Spoiler, or BlueBird to deal with or help out.

The hook hand, I wonder about too.. I mean can't he just get a mechanical hand , with the money he has,one of the robins, or heck the Justice League help out. I mean, Cyborg could get him a robotic hand.

[silverhammerman]

Is that still Jason's Robin costume on display in the Batcave? Because if so the impact has really been lessened over the past decade.

I'm curious to see whether this book gets remember after Bruce Wayne's inevitable return, or if it'll just get swept under the rug. I feel like outfitting a bunch of untrained teens and sending them out to fight crime is the kind of thing that Batman would not approve of, so there could be some drama there.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Maybe Bruce will let it slide until Alfred's killed more Robins then him (which is every Robin thus far except for Tim).

Alfred has to kill a few more before he can earn a Batman lecture.

[silverhammerman]

Well I'm sure Bruce would argue that it hardly counts if the kid doesn't stay dead.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I'd say it counts. Both the deaths and resurrections were two entirely separate events (well, 2/3s), anyways.

[chalicother]

I think that's Dick's. At this moment, I think Alfred still thinks he is dead.Actually, I don't think we got a scene of Alfred finding out Dick is still alive in Grayson.. One thing I know of is that in the new DCU, Jason's Robin eye-mask was red, and this is black. It also looks really similar to the suit Dick wore in Grayson and in Batman and Robin Eternal flashbacks.

[zapbiffpow]

"Actually, I don't think we got a scene of Alfred finding out Dick is still alive in Grayson."

Nah, we did - it was a first-page thing, the implication being that Alfred was the first person Dick told.

[chalicother]

I mean literally. Like we didn't get a scene of Alfred's reaction to Dick being alive, and whether he was happy , not surprised, or anything. The first page skips to Alfred knowing,but we don't get his reaction or even found out how Dick revealed it to him. Sorry, maybe I did not word that correctly.

[zapbiffpow]

Ah, don't apologize. But I actually have no qualms at how they handled it: that issue was too packed to the gills with emotional moments anyway.

[chalicother]

Good point. My only nerve is that we don't get that many Alfred "this robin is alive again/actually" responses. We got one with Damian, but then we get how he felt about Jason's death not until an issue of Justice League.

[zapbiffpow]

Which, again, I have no problem with. Returning to Grayson #12, Alfred hugging/weeping/getting angry/at Dick for having returned would just be retreading ground the other characters in the issue would be doing.

And Babs/Jason/Tim's reactions definitely had priority, since their roles were actually integral to the plot of said issue. As much sentimental value Alfred's role would have had, other considerations need to be taken into account, like page allotment, plot twist explanation, etc.

[chalicother]

Ahh...point. I shall concede.

[zapbiffpow]

I hope you won't think less of me for this, sir.

[chalicother]

Nothing, but the utmost respect, sir