DC AnnouncesBatman & Robin: Year One

DC Comicshas announcedBatman & Robin : Year One , a novel 12 - issue miniseries from writerMark Waidand illustrator Chris Samnee beginning this October 16 .

The story concernsBruce Wayneas he “ adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson . ” Concurrently,“a mysterious new crime boss called the General ” with equally mysterious ties to Two - Face “ has come to Gotham to claim the urban center by disrupting and destroying its other mobs . Batman and his new buddy , Robin , are out for solution , but it ’ll take everything they have to sail both side of their relationship as father and son and dynamical duo , with Dick Grayson ’s present and future hanging in the balance ! ”

Samnee add , “ Dick is everything Bruce is not — madcap , flamboyant , reckless- but he ’s also exact ; he can stick a landing place . He ’ll take orders when they make sense to him , but he ’s keen to improvise , testing his function within the Dynamic couplet . The first page you ’ll see will showcase how they ’ll be acting , and respond , as they venture out into Gotham City on patrol together . We ’re so excited for this story to finally be told . ”

Batman & Robin: Year One cover

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Fatherhood , right ? As the precis states , the leger ’s elemental antagonist will be the General , a Damien Thorne - esque contemporary of Dick Grayson who happen to be a brainy military strategist . Intriguingly , the masking of government issue # 1 sees a issue of other familiar villains ( Catwoman , Joker , Clayface , Professor Milo , etc . ) swarming Batman and Robin in a nod to the opening credit sequence of the Adam West series .

While its improbable any of these characters will come along in the miniseries proper , the comprehension of Tom Hardy ’s Bane is interesting . The closest West ’s Batman ever came to his receive his own version of Bane was when Val Johnson node - starred as the Minstrel . ( severely , go back and catch his one and only two - parter , “ The Minstrel ’s Shakedown / Barbecued Batman”—he very nearly succeeds in leveling Gotham City with an earthquake - causing lute . )

We ’ll see how Waid and Samnee’sPortrait of Eddie ’s Father - inspired take on the dynamic duo pans out when whenBatman & Robin : Year Onehits ledge later this yr . In the interim , enjoy a trailer below .

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