For fans of Batman / Superman: World’s Finest and the 2022 event Batman vs. Robin, legendary comic writer Mark Waid is teaming up with artist and co-plotter Chris Samnee for Batman and Robin: Year One. This 12-issue series is set to debut on October 16, 2024. Waid and Samnee are co-plotting the storyline, with Waid writing and Samnee penciling and creating the main cover for Batman and Robin: Year One #1. Mat Lopes will provide colors, and Clayton Cowles will deliver letters.
From the press release:
In Batman and Robin: Year One, while Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out for answers, but it’ll take everything they have to navigate both sides of their relationship as father and son and dynamic duo, with Dick Grayson’s present and future hanging in the balance!
Batman and Robin: Year One #1 will also have variant covers by Mikel Janín and Matteo Scalera, with incentive variants by Karl Kerschl (1:25), and Lee Weeks (1:50). DC provided a first look at these covers, which you can preorder at your local comic shop.
DC also provided some sneak-peek interiors for readers to get a look and feel for this new entry in the Batman: Year One line. Check them out below:
“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.”
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