Lemire’s scripting captures Dick’s youth and naïveté nicely. The first issue finds Dick grappling with the reality of what he’s gotten himself into in comparison to how he thought being a costumed crimefighter was going to be. Lemire & Nguyen are no strangers to Gotham City, though Robin & Batman shares little in common with the pair’s L’il Gotham series of stories. The debut issue of the series more or less skips past the commonly-known part of Robin’s origin to get to the pivotal moment when Dick Grayson officially became Batman’s junior partner. Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen ’s Robin & Batman is out to put its own spin on answering both of those questions. Where there’s room for interpretation is in what came next, and not only what led Dick to put on a colorful costume and fight crime, but also what led Bruce Wayne to decide to bring a child into his dark and dangerous world. Most people know the story of the circus owner who ran afoul of organized crime in one way or another, and the family of acrobats who paid the price for it.
Like the origins of Batman and Superman, the origin of first Robin Dick Grayson is fairly well-trod territory.
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