The next incorporates main spoilers for Batman: White Knight Presents: Red Hood #1 and #2, on sale now from DC Comics.
At any time when Batman is talked about, it’s very almost compulsory that Robin will observe. The boy marvel has had many variations over time, however one factor is for sure: he’s at all times along with the Dark Knight. Their pairing turned a part of comedian historical past and had come to be anticipated in Batman and Batman-adjacent comics.
Batman: The White Knight Presents: Red Hood (by Clay McCormack, Sean Murphy, and Simone Di Meo) launched a vastly completely different take, by debuting the most recent Robin, Gan. Launched in a flashback, this Robin’s hopefulness and skills made her a really distinctive character, that stood out from among the many different Robins and secured her spot as top-of-the-line. This isn’t simply due to her personal actions, however due to the impact that she has had on her mentor, Jason Todd/Red Hood.
Gan is launched in a two-issue flashback as she joins in on a battle between Red Hood and what he calls a bunch of “Z-Record” villains. The alternative of Jason, she is a vivid and useful presence, aware of her neighborhood and respectful of her surroundings. What’s most important, although, is that the 10-speed driving vigilante goes by Robin, a title that the White Knight universe’s Jason misplaced by betraying Batman and confessing his mentor’s identification to the Joker. In consequence, Gan meets Jason when he’s very a lot down on his luck.
Jason educated his Robin, considered one of only a few that haven’t been straight related to the Dark Knight, to battle. She was a fast research, and her crime combating alongside Red Hood pressured Jason to know why Batman wanted a Robin. Sadly, he failed to coach her suppose her actions by. She winds up hurting herself, inflicting Jason to comprehend his position in working from Batman but in addition making him know that his working was a lot the identical as Batman’s failure to seek out him.
What makes Gan so important to Jason isn’t simply what she does whereas she’s below her tutelage, however what she does afterward. Gan works to make her neighborhood higher in a means that Nightwing has solely just lately begun to do, and a means that Batman typically overlooks; social packages that in the reduction of on petty crime. Gan works exhausting as a civilian to assist her neighborhood be extra. She volunteers and runs a self-defense dojo, utilizing the talents Jason taught her virtually in a means that he by no means realized may very well be used.
Although Gan’s distinctive properties already make her stand out not solely as a hero however as a Robin, her impact on Jason is essentially the most telling. Within the White Knight universe, Red Hood shaped due to Jason’s personal impetuous nature, and he isn’t affected by the enraging properties of the Lazarus Pits. Gan’s Robin helps him see methods he can higher himself and the issues he must do to really assist himself in order that he can assist others. What’s extra, Gan helps to set him on the trail towards being a greater man. It’s uncommon that Robins change Batman, making Gan precisely what was wanted by the ex-boy marvel and making her one of the crucial important Robins of all time.