Showing posts with label robin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robin. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 March 2009

Yes please! Batman and Robin



Promo image for Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's forthcoming Batman and Robin. The All Star Superman duo are reclaiming that phrase! Due June, the series will feature the Battle for the Cowl winner as the Dark Knight Detective; as well as, what appears to be, Damian Wayne as a scowling, rumble ready Robin. Morrison has indicated that the team-up will be a role reversal piece with this new Batman taking a lighter approach, whilst this bad-ass Boy Wonder seethes. Count me in! Damian Wayne is a wonderfully wonky addition to the Bat-Family. Born of a techno tryst between Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul, Damian is a pampered pre-teen nutter, who thought nothing of sucker-punching current Robin: Tim Drake off a stuffed dinosaur. Meaning to impress, this attempt on Drake's life was Damian's bid to claim his rightful position as Son of Batman. Can't have strays muddling up his heir apparent dynamic, can he? It's the assassin's way! Quite unconcerned with any issues of morality or restraint, Damian is an adorable little vandal.

Sunday, 1 March 2009

Sketch Sunday: Robin the Boy Wonder

The Sensational Character Find of 1940! Dick Grayson's Robin put in his first appearance in Detective Comics #38, a little under a year after Batman's crime-fight debut. Created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson, Robin brought an easily identifiable audience surrogate into the Bat-fold, lightening The Batman's grim urban procedurals. Dangling twitching giants from planes was out, team work was in! The Boy Wonder's immediate success sparked a slew of copycat sidekicking, forming a central tenet of the Golden Age of comics in the process. Although no longer Robin, the Grayson character still kicks it anti-crime, now operating under the much less exciting alias of Nightwing.

There's more than a little Burt Ward about this Robin, no bad thing considering not one live action portrayal has even come close to Ward's excitable punning brawler. He's always desperate for a scrap!

Thursday, 31 July 2008

James Kochalka Must Live!

So he can complete his fever dream Robin comic. Read on AND WONDER!



Read the shocking slumber insight behind such a startlingly surrealist savage side-kick story!

Holy alliteration!

Commence e-bomb DC beg bombardment now. Then head over to his website for his daily update artobiography. It's splendidy.