Following Mark Waid and Chris Samnee’s success with the “Devil of Hell’s Kitchen”, the two will bring their magic to Gotham’s two most famous residents in a brand new limited series from DC Comics.
The twelve-issue Batman and Robin: Year One series goes back to the earliest days of the dynamic duo’s partnership, as they learn to trust one another and get to the bottom of Dick Grayson’s connection to Two-Face.
“While Batman and Robin are the stars of this tale and get most of the panel time, at its heart, this isn’t a Batman/Robin story, it’s a Bruce/Dick story,” said Mark Waid. “It takes place only a month or two after Bruce adopted Dick, and it’s sinking in for Bruce that he has no idea how to be a father to a kid that age. He has no role model—his own father was long dead by the time he was Dick’s age. Nothing he’s ever done has prepared him for this, and Alfred—wise as he is—doesn’t have much experience here either.”
“Dick is everything Bruce is not—impetuous, flamboyant, reckless,” said Chris Samnee. “But he’s also precise; he can stick a landing. He’ll take orders when they make sense to him, but he’s keen to improvise, testing his role within the Dynamic Duo. The first pages you’ll see will showcase how they’ll be acting, and reacting, as they adventure out into Gotham City on patrol together. We’re so excited for this story to finally be told.”
Batman and Robin: Year One #1 will be in stores on October 16, with a main cover by Samnee, and variant covers by Mikel Janín, Matteo Scalera, Karl Kerschl (1:25), and Lee Weeks (1:50).
Check out Samnee and Janín’s covers and an early, uncolored preview page below.
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