Batman Vs. Robin #3: The Island

[superboyprime]

Comments

[blues32]

Is that Black Alice? Does she EVER get to be happy? Jeez...

[jgraygaming]

Did he end up fighting Stephanie yet? Because of all the Robins (except maybe Jason), she has the biggest, very real grudge to vent.

[blues32]

MAYBE Jason? No, I think Jason has the biggest grudge. He died. He actually died. You can't get a bigger grudge than "you got me killed then refused to take out my killer". Add to that the fact some new kid replaced him and that's a pretty big grudge. What's Stephanie have anyway?

[jgraygaming]

I'm thinking "you used me to make Tim jealous, then discarded me for a shit reason and as a result I ended up tortured to death by a psychopathic killer with a power tool fetish"?

[blues32]

Did that even happen in the new universe?

[jgraygaming]

Honestly? Who even knows at this point.

[thanekos]

You see Mark Waid writing Damian, you're like " Uh? " - then you remember he co-created Ibn al Xu'ffasch, and you're like " Fair enough. "

[shadowpsykie]

i REALLY wanna see his fight with Stephanie. i hope she's far more formidable than he gave her credit for.

[super_fly]

Stephanie: "Why does everyone else get the cool magical artifacts and weapons while I get a kinda racist-looking stick?"

[leahandillyana]

Poor Pigsy! But in general, I loved the issue. The grudges the former Robins had against Batman, while influenced by magic, are perfect metatextual points. It is also rare to see Batman as a person, with feelings and imperfections. I think last time he was portrayed this way was in Tom King's run. I loved Alfred's role too. This is definitely my favourite ongoing series.