Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Batman and Robin issue 1

So I am not going to lie, and I know that anyone reading this is going to hate me forever. I have never been a huge Batman fan. I am all about actual Superheroes, and while he has made it through some pretty tough situations, I just don't really enjoy his character like I do the Heroes who can smash through buildings and fly of there own accord.
But I picked up issue 1 of Batman and Robin anyway. I decided to give him a shot.
So featured in the new Batman and Robin, we have a new Robin! Damien Wayne. Bruce Wayne's son by way of Thalia Al Ghul, daughter of Ras Al Ghul an enemy of Batman.
We also get to see some of Batman's, worldly counterparts as Batman has gone around the world to instill fear to criminals all over the world instead of just Gotham city, by recruiting others to wear the cape and cowl and symbol of the Bat.

Warning will be giving a full synopsis of story from Batman and Robin issue 1. If you do not wish to spoil it for yourself then I suggest picking up the issue and then coming back to read my review.

Cover features Robin and Batman.

Plot:
We start with a man running in the dark, firing his gun blindly, when the shape of a bat looms over him. He is captured by a man looking  like a steam punk version of Batman. He states "there is no where that the man can run, he is an ally of the Bat and Moscow will no longer suffer under.." The man in his grasp is shot by an invisible gunner, who then attacks the Russian Batman. He demands to know who this person is, the person replies with no one and so are you.
Gotham City, Wayne Manor.
Bruce sits in the dark as a clock bongs in the background he walks up to a head statue of his father and states tonight is the night for a change. He goes and wakes his son and they take a secret entrance to the Batcave, batman explaining why the password to for the clock entrance is 10:48, stating that at 10:48 on a September night that his parents were taken. They suit up and take a tumbler through the sewers of Gotham. Batman explaining the reason to celebrate life, his son, born into the world of assassins, doesn't understand the need to hang on to death.
They stop at the drain grate where his mothers pearls from her necklace fell into the sewer as it broke. He states that hes going to start honoring their wedding anniversary instead of there death from this night forward. He then takes the playbill from the show they saw that night and makes a little boat out of it, and lets it sail away into the dark of the sewers.
Alfred then comes over the com saying there is a situation that needs his attention at Gotham University.
Were taken there where men lay dead in a pool of water over some radiation fuel canisters that the water is keeping cool. The men are wearing specialized suites and draining the canisters.
Batman and Robin make there move attacking the men, some decide to make a break for it, blowing a hole in the pool and taking the sewers they then discover the Gyro Batman and Robin used to get there. The steal it and Robin follows using a grappling hook to attach himself to the Gyro. Once on the ball he rips out the stabilizers and the ball bursts into flames the men seen inside boiling alive as the radiated fuel from there now broken tanks fill the out of control Gyro.
Back at the pool, the radiation canister's are overheating without the water. Batman aims at the ceiling shoots a bomb and a next, water begins pouring from the ceiling filling the pool below cooling down the canisters. There was a swimming pool on the floor above. How convenient.
Batman then tracks down Robin asking what happened with the Gyro? Then chastising him as he let the men die, it was not there place to decide those men should die. He tells Robin he needs to learn to control himself, and that he needs to know he can trust him.
Damien responds with, Dick (Grayson, took over for Batman when he disappeared to the past) trusted him, how long was it going to take for Bruce to? Which Bruce responds, I will let you know.
We then see the Russian Batman hanging on a chain over a pool of acid, the man he captured killed by the mysterious character hanging next to him, lowering into the pool of acid, Then Russian Batman begins to lower, And we see a man in black wearing a strange helmet. and there appears to be a red looking bat symbol on his chest.
This was the end of the issue.

So interesting and very dark first issue. Already the Batmans, that Batman has initiated all over the globe are being attacked by who? Who is the mysterious man who killed the Russian Bat.
I see many problems occurring for Bruce and Damien. A lot of father son bonding to be done, and trust building as well. Damien is obviously very used to not having rules. He kills without a second thought and then is not concerned about it later. While this is something he was taught by the League of Assassin's no doubt, I wonder if it is something that Bruce will ever be able to change?
No noticeable changes to Batman's suite, but Robin now wears a tattered cape, it giving the appearance of feathered wings, instead of the traditional embellished cape for Robin, the cape also appears to have a hood attached. His mask is now green instead of black. And with only a few color changes his costume mostly resembles that of the previous Robin's.

The issue was good and I may decide to keep reading the series, we shall see!

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