Mark Waid and Chris Samnee return to Batman & Robin: Year One with a new 12-issue series titled Dynamic Duos.
The new storyline picks up directly after the first Batman & Robin: Year One series, with the Dynamic Duo working together better than ever when Batman and Robin are confronted with a gang of street kids and a mystery villain pulling their strings.
“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,” said Waid. “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.”
“Mark is 100 percent right,” added Samnee. “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. Bouncing stuff around with Mark is always so much fun, and the voices for these characters are always so on point. Mat (Lopes) goes above and beyond with every single page of colors—always making my stuff look better than it deserves—and Clayton (Cowles) has done such a great job of integrating the lettering into the design of each panel and page—and has been so generous with letting me take all the fun SFX out of his hands. So instead of making plans for the next project or book (which is usually what I start trying to plan about halfway through a project), we just kept up the momentum and started getting the pitch together for what’s become Dynamic Duos and rolled right into this, straight after we wrapped Year One.”
“Whereas Year One was about Bruce and Dick learning to live together and work as a team, Dynamic Duos is about how Catwoman divides them,” continued Waid. “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.”
Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos #1 arrives at your local comic book shop on August 12.
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