Over the next couple of weeks we're going to profile some comics we've got in our beautiful storefront display case highlighting creators who will be at C2E2 this year.
Number One:
Batman and Robin vol. 1 by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason
Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason, both of whom will be at C2E2 produced a solid Batman series worthy of flagship status, but that nevertheless, was content to play along with Snyder and Morrison while telling compelling and brooding Bat-stories of their own. The relationship between Bruce Wayne and his son Damian as Robin is front-and-center here, adding much needed emotional shading to the parallel plot-centric series. In addition to creating one of the most memorable original Bat villains in years--Nobody--Gleason and Tomasi take our heroes into some seriously cool mysteries and dark corners of the Bat-verse that the other series tend to skim over in favor of giant plot twists and status quo changes. At its heart, Batman and Robin is a return to the mythic--not unlike Paul Dini's beloved Batman: The Animated Series--largely eschewing high-tech gadgets for old-fashioned sleuthing and brawling. Gotham under Gleason's pen is an inky cityscape of cathedrals, porticos and pillars, and our heroes haunt it like benevolent gargoyles. This is a page-turning Bat-series that is both rollicking and reverent, bringing a new and modern status quo into the timeless, gothic-noir orbit of the Bat mythos.
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