Bruce Wayne goes to come back to blows along with his son, Damian Wayne, in a brand new restricted sequence this fall. Batman vs. Robin is a five-issue sequence from author Mark Waid, artist Mahmud Asrar, and colorist Nathan Fairbairn debuting in September. The occasion spins out of Waid’s present run on Batman/Superman: World’s Most interesting with artist Dan Mora, whereas additionally tying into the concluding “Shadow Struggle” crossover between Joshua Williamson’s Batman, Robin, and Deathstroke sequence. Every a part of Batman vs. Robin options 5 outsized points, and in addition entails the Satan Nezha from World’s Most interesting.
“What I can say is that the primary arc of World’s Most interesting is, was, and at all times has been, designed intentionally to steer into what’s going to be Batman vs. Robin,” Mark Waid teased within the announcement by Popverse. “What I used to be making an attempt to do with Batman versus Robin was attempt to take them right into a realm that I am not used to seeing them in, which is darkish magic sorcery, quite than science, quite than logic and detective stuff. We have seen Batman and type of peripheral magic, however I wish to get into the down and soiled of it.”
Mahmud Asrar is a former Marvel Young Weapons artist – now referred to as Marvel Stormbreakers – who’s making his return to DC after 9 years at Marvel. Waid and Asrar collaborated on 2015-2016’s All-New, All-Totally different Avengers.
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One other attention-grabbing tidbit is September additionally marks the second story arc for Batman/Superman: World’s Most interesting. Waid alluded to a different spinoff probably becoming a member of Batman vs. Robin.
“They’re two separate issues,” he says. “What the second arc is main into just isn’t on the radar but… I can not hardly say something, however there’s one thing in that second arc that the payoff is, ‘Oh! I did not understand that the payoff is a part of one thing that I’ve identified for a very long time’.”
Waid has had lengthy runs at each DC and Marvel, and after making his DC return in World’s Most interesting, the Eisner-award winner is trying to give readers a style of one thing new.
“There is not any level being subtractive to a superhero universe. Each time we restrict somebody’s powers or placed on some new limitation to what they’ll do and the way they’ll do it, that is simply counter to the entire spirit of comics and superhero comics,” he says. “Comics aren’t about guidelines. Comics are about flying, proper?”
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