Just when you thought we didn't have enough stories about Dick as Robin.
>>153776276I never thought that
>>153776276Looks cool. Hopefully it’s more of him being a detective with an apprentice.
>>153776276Posting a couple of the preview images released. This story will also involve the catwoman
>>153776276Finally, some REAL Batman stuff
First series was great, can't wait for this one>>153776564NGL that page gave me goosebumps, perfect Batman stuff right there.
>>153776564
>>153776644Last of the colored pages with one more b&w page
>>153776276Best Batman book from last year, alongside Dark Patterns. Looking forward to it.
Really hoping we can get a Dark Patterns sequel announcement soon tooIt'll be good to have some real Batman stories to look forward to again
>>153776564>>153776644Someone's been browsing ENTER threads
Gee, I wonder which Robin is Waid's favorite.
>>153776276So Waid is just overseer on all DC history titles now huh?
>>153777213I think it's likelier he's the only one constantly pitching stories that take place in the past.He seems like the kind of ultra boomer to do that.
>>153777213DC probably discovered that the way to keep his rampaging autism mostly in check was just to let him write Silver Age flashback titles.
>>153776703
>Dick getting more modern stories of his past as Robin
>>153777868Honestly Jason, Tim and Damian, even Steph sort of, all had their time, there was obviously some interference along the way but if it was meant to be it would.Dick is the default because he's functional.
>>153776276Finally. A series about Dick as Robin that isn't another "Year One" type story.Literally the first one DC has ever published in mainline continuity. Literally.
>>153779514>JasonReally? I can understand all the others, but Jason's time as Robin, specially that isn't heavy handed about his eventual fall, hasn't been explored in the modern age.
>>153776276So is this a trade or what?
>>153780804>that isn't heavy handed about his eventual fallYou're right, but it is inevitable Mr. Anderson.
>>153780906https://www.dc.com/blog/2026-05-20/dc-announces-batman-and-robin-year-one-dynamic-duos>A New 12-Issue Batman and Robin Series Begins August 2026
>>153777009Waid only likes silver age characters.
>>153777868Jason had a series about his time as Robin recently. It was the follow up to the Robin and Batman story.
>>153776276Let me guess: its Waid's "pitch" to make Robin work in a live action batman movie
I enjoy Waid as a writer still so I will eagerly await the storytimes here.Wish this was Jason tho. He's stuck in limbo because Red Hood revisionism. Just write him as a slighty less faggy Dick and drop the "troubled anger issue Robin" bullshit.
>>153776276Well, it's the only Robin that sells.
>>153779514>Dick is the default because he's functional.That's why he's an incredibly boring character to read about.
YEAR ONE!!??!?? A MODERN RETELLING OF AN ORIGIN STORY!!?? THIS WILL SAVE DC AND SURELY RESULT IN ROYALTIES FOR MARK WAID AFTER THE INEVITABLE FILM ADAPTATION. IT CAN'T NOT SUCCEED, HAVING YEAR ONE IN THE TITLE MEANS IT WILL BE ON EVERY RECOMMENDED READING LIST!
>>153781303This is a sequel/follow-up to Batman & Robin Year One.
>>153782734Makes sense. That shit went nowhere.
>>153782734I'm worried, because B&R Year One was great, but so was World's Finest at first, and Waid started to fall off and retread a lot of the same stories after a while. I get there's not as many issues yet, but still.
>>153783972>>153784079duality of man
>>153781280And it was dogshit. The only good part was Jason.
>>153776276Are you going to cry more about how this “erases” Dixon’s Year One?
>>153788577Sure.
>DC has announced Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos, a new 12-issue monthly series from Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, set to launch August 12, 2026. The series continues the story of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson following their earlier Year One run, digging deeper into the early days of the Dynamic Duo.>Batman and Robin are already established as a crime-fighting team in Gotham, but new trouble is brewing. A group of street kids begins causing chaos across the city, forcing the duo to investigate who is behind it and what is driving them. The mystery points to a larger force pulling the strings, setting up a new challenge for both heroes.>Waid shared his excitement about continuing the story, noting how much material he and Samnee developed while working together. “One of the great things about talking story with Chris is that we generally end up with way more than we can actually fit in the books—that’s how excited both of us get when we explore Batman and Robin’s early days,” he said. “This is Chris’s dream job, and I could write younger Bruce and Dick forever. Hence Dynamic Duos—Bruce and Dick and Catwoman and a brand-new character who may or may not choose to be Selina Kyle’s sidekick.”
>>153791136>Samnee echoed that enthusiasm, pointing to the creative momentum behind the new series. “Mark is 100 percent right,” Samnee said. “Our first 12 issues of Year One felt like the exact book I’d been wanting to make since I was a kid. And to be able to make it with this amazing team really is like catching lightning in a bottle.” He also praised collaborators Mat Lopes and Clayton Cowles for elevating the work throughout.>A key element of the new story is Catwoman’s role in complicating the partnership between Bruce and Dick. Waid explained that while Year One focused on the pair learning to live and work together, this next chapter introduces tension. “Dick’s still too young to understand why Batman doesn’t treat her like every other Gotham criminal, while Catwoman sees this little Robin punk as an obstacle to overcome if she wants to land her next big score…which might involve getting close to Batman! And chaos ensues.”
>>153777868Jason already had one and it was dogshit. DC is determined to keep him as a terrible kid to justify them killing him.Tim however doesn't NEED any "modern" series because his Robin minis, Robin ongoing, and various appearances in Batman books in the 90s and 00s ARE modern. He also had a Robin book 2-3 years ago that was also dogshit.And Damian had the Boy Wonder book but that was good so I wouldn't mind a sequel by that same guy.And Steph doesn't need one because she was Robin for two seconds.
>>153777009I really wish Waid and Lupa would do a sequel to WFTT. It wasn't great but it was a cute romp and I feel like Waid could easily revamp some of TT's cringier villains like he did Ant.
I'd give my left nut for Waid to get a Dick Robin book where he revamps tons of his golden age/Star Spangled Comics stuff.>Black Magician, No Face, and The Clock as villains>Harold The Boy Inventor as a friendly rival>Mary Willis and Vera Lovely as a love triangle>>153777868>waaah why is the most popular Robin with close to no readable ancient stuff getting more modern stuff
>>153776276YES! I might actually buy this, I've been DYING for more Dick as Robin.
>>153776564>>153776644Sick
>>153777376If I worked at DC that's all I'd do, too >>153779514Dick is the best because getting rid of him leads to all the problems. The convoluted plots, the half baked characters, the "Bruce is actually super messed up if you think about it" B.S., even on the girls side and replacing Robin opens the door to doing it to Barbara, too. Bruce and Dick as Batman and Robin is just good times, though.
>>153780763How do I order this? I'm moving this weekend and there's no possible way I'll have access to a LCS
>>153777868Dick in modern day is an adult so there is always room to do more throwback stuff from his Robin Days. It also ties to Batman’s early days so it’s a compelling era to readers.Jason’s tenure doesn’t really work as well as it does with Dick because of Jason’s tragic death and rebirth, and the need to portray him as troubled. That era of Batman also isn’t particularly interesting to readers because it’s very generic and nothing that major happens and modern reinterpretations and reinventions of Black Mask and Nocturnal don’t really lend themselves to Jason stories.Tim is already relatively modern Robin with tons of his own comics, and there is no real demand for “hey remember when Tim was like 15 and Robin?” stories unless it’s say Young Justice nostalgia trip, where Batman has no place.Steph was Robin for two minutes and throwback mini about that would never be something that would drive sales.And Damian is current Robin and already semi-regularly has a Batman/Robin comic.It makes most sense for it to be Dick and it’s also the most financially sound choice because there is demand for comics set in that period
>>153777868>>153780804Why are Jasonfags and especially Timfags so fucking dumbJason's original time as Robin is perfectly readable and in the modern ageTim's original time as Robin is perfectly readable and he had a whole ass ongoing in the modern age you greedy fucksDick's original time as Robin is almost completely bad/outright unreadable for about 30 years outside a handful of stories like Robin Dies At Dawn or Teen Titans #14, and he was pretty overall unimportant during the 70s and early 80s when Batman comics started picking up in quality compared to the golden age and silver age shit due Robin being considered lame and embarrassing after the 1966 show.
>>153776342probably because he would go to prison but the concept my make less mistakes than my assumption
>>153792271>Jason's original time as Robin is perfectly readable and in the modern ageAnon, Jason lived and died during the 80s, there are many people who won't even check a comic from the 2000s, let alone one from the 80s.I know Dick has shit from like the 40s, but he's also the one who gets explored the most.
>>153791769>the need to portray him as troubledThey need to bring back portraying Robin Jason as a good boy, at least at first.Makes his eventual downfall even more tragic.
>>153792446>there are many people who won't even check a comic from the 2000s, let alone one from the 80s.And that's a them problem tho
>>153792446There is nothing to explore. The most interesting thing about Jason’s time is him dying. Any story with him would just as easily be done with Dick unless you frame every story as “Jason is troubled and violent” which gets boring fast. So much of the period Jason was in isn’t even canon due to retcons and changes and it’s so bland that you would have to bend over backwards and retcon shit in to make it distinct from other eras. You could do that but would it be as big of a seller on just the idea that it’s Bruce and Jason? No. People like early days of Dick and Bruce because it’s where nearly all the classic villains debuted.
>>153792483I don’t think anyone cares that much and it would require so much effort that it would take years of writing to establish that. And even then would it attract readers? The Alan David stories were the only ones that really did that and that was because they had to make people forget the whole “red hair circus boy who’s Dick’s copy when we dye his hair” shit they did pre-crisis
>Dick gets a new book>"b-but what about Jason?!"Like clockwork.
>>153776276Despite knowing how good the book did, I never expected they would have the foresight to put something like this in the works. And with the same artist too, Samnee, who has been carrying Waid's fat ass on his back for years
>>153792602It really do be like that.
>>153792965Anon Waid and Samnee probably have ideas for a whole slew of Dick stories. Dick is one of Waid's favorite characters and Waid kept begging to write Nightwing back in the late 90s and 00s. And IIRC Samnee said he wants to draw a Titans and a Nightwing story. They may as well make a new Nightwing Year One but do it properly this time ie not shove a bunch of unnecessary Batfamily shit in it.
>>153792602No one really cares about Dick.
>>153793394I agree, all this stuff would most likely be decent and I hope we get these stories. For clarification, when I said "they" in my original post I meant DC editorial. I did not expect DC to have the business accumen to capitalize on the success of last year's limited series so quickly and decisively. And the reason why I shit on Waid a bit (other than the fact that he is a tds retard) is the fact that his story had little to no plot and was stretched to fill out twelve issues while it could easily be told in half as much. It was Samnee's phenomenal art that really made this book shine, same with Waid's subpar Daredevil run from a decade ago. Now if only Dark Patterns was as successful as Robin Year One, we could have also gotten a LOTDK series revival
>>153777868>>153781409DC tried to start something new after the success of Robin and Batman, but the Jason miniseries didn't sell anywhere near as well as the first miniseries. And considering the success of Batman and Robin Year One, the failure of Tim Drake's Robin, Batman and Robin with Damian selling poorly, and the aforementioned failure of Robin and Batman with Jason, DC concludes that the only Robin that sells is Dick.
>>153776967So this is Holly, right? >>153791527Rare and based SSC enjoyer. I had to double-check to make sure I didn't post this myself. I want The Clock, No-Face, that O.G. battle against Crazy Quilt, and the one where he's trapped on the island fighting Nazis. Oh, and the one where he has to single-handedly stop the terrorists that stole the nuclear bomb. Lean into Robin as this hyper-competent kid hero.
>>153792483There's a violence in this image that every pic previous in this thread lacks. Fights drawn by someone who's never been slapped are weightless and silly.
>>153793642>I did not expect DC to have the business accumen to capitalize on the success of last year's limited series so quickly and decisivelyWhich is pretty stupid thing to say when they have quickly done sequels to several non-canon limited series in the past five years from the DC vs vampires stuff to the medieval DCU to DCeased.
Jasonfags, Timfags, and Stephfags are seething on twitter over this lmao
>>153792537>I don’t think anyone cares that muchLiterally every Jason fan wants that and not the “Jason is always bad” bullshit they keep pushing.
>>153776276Dick Grayson should always be RobinThis isn't Gasoline Alley
>>153795174Jasonfags and even Timfags I get but Stephfags have no right to demand anything. She was Robin for like a month at most in universe.
>>153776276>WaidRadioactive sewage made by a demented faggot, no thank you
>>153777376WB wants Robin material for a movie and realized outside of the mostly unfilmable Judas Contract there are no good Robin stories
>>153782721>SURELY RESULT IN ROYALTIES FOR MARK WAID AFTER THE INEVITABLE FILM ADAPTATION.He literally wrote a blog entry about how Cavillman got him a thank you credit for Rebirth right before subsequent writers trashed Mr. "I see auras plus I'm vegetarian" as fast as possible but no DC is not generous to book creators as far as the films are concerned
>>153793903Davis never misses
>>153791202> DC is determined to keep him as a terrible kid to justify them killing him.Because that’s the only interesting angle he has.
>>153795665Holy fucking boomer, gasoline alley as a reference!?
>>153797213It's the only ongoing comic strip where everyone ages in real time, most of us don't know anything else about it
>>153793523We ALL love Dick.
There should have never been a second Robin. There most definitely should not have been a third Robin after the second one died on duty. The character himself makes zero sense (a child fighting crime alongside Batman) but at least Grayson justifies it to some small degree since he is a high-iq acrobat that was essentially trained since birth for the role. I am looking forward to more Golden/Silver age adventures since that is the only environment that supports a character like that
A moment from Batman Urban Legends #5
>>153797855I think Funky Winkerbean did that after a while. That’s still a dated reference but not as obscure as fucking Gasoline Alley. Still it’s a moot comparison because Duck didn’t age in real time, he went from 8 to college aged in about 30 years, and now is still hovering under 25 for the past 50 years.
>>153800280Golden/Silver Age tone is the best tone for superhero stories anyway, trying to make this stuff “realistic” just makes is stupider.
>>153776276>mark waidseethe incoming
good. i read the first three or so issues of batman and robin year one and was liking it. i also dont care about politics so im not allergic to mark waid like you guys are
>>153776276I despise phoneposters a lot>The series features interior art and the main cover by Samnee, with colors by Lopes and lettering by Cowles. The debut issue will also include variant covers by Marc Silvestri, Dustin Nguyen, and Hayden Sherman, along with a special anniversary variant by Greg Capullo.>Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos #1 arrives in comic shops on August 12, 2026, kicking off the next phase of Waid and Samnee’s take on the early adventures of Gotham’s iconic crime-fighting duo.
>>153793707>but the Jason miniseries didn't sell anywhere near as well as the first miniseriesAnd you know that how?
>>153802684Because Jason sucks.
>>153800299Little Jaybird
>>153800386Not really.The "realistic" stuff is more fun.
hate to have to be the one to make this obligatory post but too many batfam members
>>153804011It's easy to suck when the editorial and the writers can't write a good story to save their lives. But then again, the character was ruined as a result of Judd Winick being a terrible writer and the editors being terrible at their jobs.
>>153792504>There is nothing to explore. The most interesting thing about Jason’s time is him dying. Any story with him would just as easily be done with Dick unless you frame every story as “Jason is troubled and violent” which gets boring fast. So much of the period Jason was in isn’t even canon due to retcons and changes and it’s so bland that you would have to bend over backwards and retcon shit in to make it distinct from other eras. You could do that but would it be as big of a seller on just the idea that it’s Bruce and Jason? No. People like early days of Dick and Bruce because it’s where nearly all the classic villains debuted.With a take this bad, you would assume it was made by a DC editor. No, people like the early days of Bruce and Dick because it's fucking Batman. Nobody gives a shit about debuts.
>>153791769>It makes most sense for it to be Dick and it’s also the most financially sound choice because there is demand for comics set in that period>>153792271>Dick's original time as Robin is almost completely bad/outright unreadable for about 30 years outside a handful of stories like Robin Dies At Dawn or Teen Titans #14, and he was pretty overall unimportant during the 70s and early 80s when Batman comics started picking up in quality compared to the golden age and silver age shit due Robin being considered lame and embarrassing after the 1966 show.So therefore, we need to take books away that could have been used to, I dunno, fix the current state of mainline Batman characters like Tim and Jason, and give them to a sixty-year-old Silver Age fanboy to memberberry about his childhood comics even though DC's Silver Age was dogshit compared to Marvel's output at the same time? Is that right?
>>153797163As if. Nothing is less interesting than a narrative that coddle Bruce in his delusions.
>>153800280>essentially trained since birth for the role.Reaching. He was an acrobat, not a fighter. Robin is a fucked up concept and Batman is only interesting when you acknowledge that.
>>153805735>the character was ruined as a result of Judd Winick being a terrible writerKeep seething, Jaybinfag.
>>153805735Don't bother arguing with Dickfags and Batfags. They're autistic and invested too much time and money into this slop to stop eating slop. DC ruined everything they touched a long time ago, intentionally and not.
>>153776276We don't have enough stories about Dick as Robin. Of all the top shelf iconic characters in DC's catalog, Dick as Robin is the most underrepresented. They published maybe 4 stories in the entire post-crisis era.
It's funny how Dick literally leeches the youth off other, younger characters.
>>153807972In his defense, they started it by cribbing from his youth.
>>153802684Robin and Batman #3 sales ranking IcV2 - 39Robin and Batman: Jason Todd #3 sales ranking IcV2 - 121
>>153808056Except Tim showed you don't need Dick to make a good Robin.
>>153808106Jason was the only highlight of that book. it was not very good.
>>153808056>retarded logic/co/ never been the sharpest but every threads read like a bunch of drunk bots tonight.
>>153777009This is sort of based, I mean I guess we haven’t really had Dick Robin stories since like what, the 80s? And I feel like most of those stories were separated from Batman. I also like his take on Batman and Robin starting to hang out with Year One, I think parts of Worlds Finest are kinda mid but a lot of it is pretty awesome honestly. Maybe one day we can get some Jason Todd content, I guess the reason why I’m personally not concerned about Tim Drake is cause he had a run already, and it was pretty good too
>>15380988512th level intellect captcha then.New Tec book planned, Batman in New York.If it turned out to be Bruce would it stand to claim he's leeching from Jace's turf, or do fans of the coattail rider have a misplaced impression of who's due what?
>>153805881>we need to take books away that could have been used to, I dunno, fix the current state of mainline Batman characters like Tim and JasonThere is no real demand for such books. There is clear demand for more Dick. Deal with it.
>>153805807>Nobody gives a shit about debuts.How can someone be this fucking wrong. People are obsessed with origin stories and debuts.
>>153810606>There is no real demand for such books. Says who? The editorial that ruined them in the first place?
>>153810850Sales
>>153792504>Any story with him would just as easily be done with Dick unless you frame every story as “Jason is troubled and violent” which gets boring fast.Out of all the Robins, Jason is the only one they can make a disturbing horror crime story with.
>>153811042Incorrect
>>153808119Don't make me pull out that Zdarsky panel where he verbatim ripsoff of Dick to give Tim a Robin nickname.
>I am looking forward to more Golden/Silver age adventures since that is the only environment that supports a character like that.Maybe we can get some more stories set on Post-Infinite Crisis Earth-2, maybe see if Helena has finally worked up the nerve to tell Dick how she feels about him.
>>153776564>>153776644>>153776685>>153776685Is this a Mad Monk story?
>>153811302They don’t have the same vibe as Jason, and stories like that just don’t fit them.
>>153793523Meanwhile Waid is Dick enthusiast, and Dynamic Duos and B&RYO exist because Samnee kept begging DC to let him draw Dick's early years, and Samnee expressed interest in drawing Nightwing and Titans.Quite frankly I wouldn't be surprised if Waid and Samnee had at least 1-2 more Dick maxis in them.
>>153808056>Orphaned adopted son of Bruce Wayne>Genius polymath boy detective>Lives in Wayne Manor>Leads the Teen Titans>Grows up to be Red RobinTimfags are retarded.
>>153812754Not true
>>153800341>I think Funky Winkerbean did that after a whileNo because Batiuk did it through a series of timeskips that still employed a sliding timescale
>>153808119>>153812062This one?
>>153813155I wouldn't be surprised either. Nothing happened in this one. I'm sure Waid has plenty more nothings in him.
>>153808106This combined with the fact that Dick weathered through 27 issues of literally not even being himself before reaching cancellations levels and then immediately bouncing back to being one of DC top sellers under the next writer while Tim couldn't even weather through 10 mediocre issues before hitting cancellation levels should have fans other the Robins shutting up whenever Dick gets something. Dick is simply more popular and sells more than them so that is why DC continues to give him more stuff.
Did Jason's dad still die because of the Penguin or did they revert back to Two-Face?This is important.
>>153814356Dick is such a weird outlier considering he doesn't even have a worthwhile rogues gallery.
>>153814414We don’t know and DC doesn’t care
>>153814704None of the other Robins do either.
>>153814356> I've got the biggest stockholm syndromWhy even bosast about "voting with your wallet" when you get the right to pay a high price for more slop that nobody will be talk about. Absolute cuck behavior.>>153814414>Important to necro bump muh threadThis thread is one schizo dickfag arguing with themselve.
>>153814356> This combined with the fact that Dick weathered through 27 issues of literally not even being himself before reaching cancellations levels and then immediately bouncing back to being one of DC top sellers under the next writer while Tim couldn't even weather through 10 mediocre issues before hitting cancellation levels should have fans other the Robins shutting up whenever Dick gets somethingThis isn’t impressive when you remember the editorial did everything to present themselves as atoning for DiDio’s sins and began to shove him into dogshit events
>>153815933Taylor's run was selling great before Dark Crisis began being advertised.
>>153816023That’s because Tylor, to his credit, his a better advertiser than a storyteller. His run was one big twitter notice me moment,
>>153810907It’s easy to say Dick is the only Robin who makes sakes when Dick is the only one they publish, you gocksucker.
>>153816319Jason had a mini as Robin last year that didn't sell as well as Dick's equivalent series (>>153808106), and Tim had an attempt at an ongoing as Robin not even 5 years ago that bombed.
>>153791151>“Dick’s still too young to understand why Batman doesn’t treat her like every other Gotham criminalIf Waid writes a scene where Bruce is too nervous to explain the birds and the bees to Dick I will buy every issue
>>153791151fucking KEK we're going around in a circle to over 80 years ago where ole batsy would manhandle Robin out of the way to help Catwoman get away scott freeUNH sorry Robin unmmmm uh uh I gotta girl name Julaaay oh but she had lovely eyes oh oh
>>153816633They wanted to cycle through all the Robins. Tim was going to be next, before Todd bombed again.
>>153817611When did they say that? Lemire and Nguyen started working on a creator own book after he finished drawing Jason's
>>153816633It didn’t sell well because it wasn’t good and the editorial wanted their bad kid Robin, so readers gave up on it. That’s the thing with Jaybin stories: they can’t be played straight, the editorial has add a caveat that absolutely derails it. It happened in RH:TH and it happened in Robin Lives.>nd Tim had an attempt at an ongoing as Robin not even 5 years ago that bombed.You mean the solo that absolutely destroyed him because the editorial made him a queer, had Megan Fitzmartin on writing and Riley Rossmo’s awful art?Way to ignore the contexts as to why Jason and Tim are in the shitters, you faggot.
gunna read
>>153818351>they can’t be played straightWhat is the point of “playing it straight”? >Tim is “destroyed” because queerPeople only cared about Tim when he was the current Robin. They cared about the sidekick angle. That’s why his Red Robin era bombed.
>>153776703>>153776685>>153776564I love the look of this. Don't normally read mainline stuff but this looks worth checking out.
