Robin War , DC ’s new event series about thearmy of teens running around Gotham in the name of Batman ’s sidekick , is pretty much all about the personal identity of Robin , and what it mean to take on that curtain — but for one Robin in particular , Dick Grayson , it seems like it ’s all about another particular mantle .
Spoilers in advance for Robin War # 1 , by Tom King , Khary Randolph , Alain Mauricet , Jorge Corona , Andres Guinaldo , Walden Wong , Emilio Lopez , Chris Sotomayor , Gabe Eltaeb , and Sandra Molina .
So what kicks off the warfare in the rubric ? Well , it turn out it ’s the fault of that unexampled work party of Robins ’ fault from the We Are Robin series . A bad interposition in a hard liquor store robbery insure an untrained sundry Robin accidentally shoot and toss off both the assailant and a police officer on the fit .
Naturally , the people of Gotham do n’t respond well , peculiarly its cuncilwoman , who hastily drafts a ( quite frankly ridiculous ) “ Robin Law ” that does n’t just outlaw vigilance man acting under the Robin name , but pretty much every kind of potential gear associate with Robin . Teens get arrested for having bill of the original Robins , or the “ R ” allegory on their shirts . Anyone looking even mildly Robin - ish gets major heat from Gotham PD — specially Duke Thomas , one of the protagonists of the ongoing We Are Robin serial , who gets picked up by an overzealous cop just for having Robin - crimson shoes on . It’sa very slaphappy law .
But it ’s one that does n’t just move the US Army of Robins — it affects the actual Robins as well . The first to hear about it are Jason Todd and Tim Drake , who have of grade long since moved on from their respective times as boy wonders . Jason is , of course of instruction , now the Red Hood , and Tim himself has evolved from Robin to the Red Robin . afterwards on , they ’re joined by the other two Robins : Dick , who ’s run on from Nightwing and become a undercover agent … and Damien Wayne , who is not peculiarly proud of at the thought of a bunch of untrained kids take his identity .
It lead to some play moments as the “ Real ” Robins seek to treat and understand this new movement made in their former epithet . While Damien is piddle , Dick is the most gung - ho about the Robin army.;Tim is a act more reserved , and the typically angry Jason require them all to fight back against Gotham ’s young crackdown . It even leads to a particularly great moment where , having busted on a meeting of the Robins , Damien comes face to grimace with Jim Gordon ’s new Batman for the first time :
It ’s pretty effective !
But Robin War quickly reveals that there ’s something a spot more sinister to the Robin Laws . Councilwoman Noctua , the woman who introduced the laws , is actually working with a wispy benefactor , who bend out to be none other than the Court of Owls , the ancient organization who ’ve been a part of Gotham , and a repeated thorn in Batman ’s side for a while now . The weird thing is that the Owls do n’t seemingly just desire to wipe out the Robins , either the teens or the former “ actual ” Robins … they need to do something specifically to Dick Grayson :
Something that seemingly tease that Dick might be returning to his Nightwing identity before long enough — little more than a twelvemonth after Dick cast aside his superhero persona to become a spy . But why the hell does the Court want Nightwing back so desperately ? Do they want to baptize a raw Nightwing in Dick ’s stead ? Are they secretly a clump of comic Quran fans who grew up loving Nightwing , an personal identity Dick is much more closely associated with these day than Robin itself ?
This being mirthful books , it could just be a one - time affair for the Robin War event . But it seems like Nightwing might be making a return to the DC Universe a fate earlier than most people expected .
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