Via Popverse, DC have announced “Batman vs. Robin,” an oversized, five-issue series by writer Mark Waid and artist Mahmud Asrar. Details were vague on why Bruce and Damian Wayne will come to blows, although the description states the current Boy Wonder and his father will “have to come to terms with something outside their regular day-to-day crimefighting.”
Waid teased the book will tie into “World’s Finest,” which is set during Dick Grayson’s time as Robin, and sees the Dynamic Duo and Superman take on the Devil Nezha. “What I can say is that the first arc of ‘World’s Finest’ is, was, and always has been, designed deliberately to lead into what is going to be ‘Batman vs. Robin.’ What I was trying to do with Batman versus Robin was try to take them into a realm that I’m not used to seeing them in, which is dark magic sorcery, rather than science, rather than logic and detective stuff. We’ve seen Batman and sort of peripheral magic, but I want to get into the down and dirty of it.”
For more from Waid, head to Popverse. The book marks his second series at DC since 2008, and Asrar’s first since the “Supergirl” relaunch during the ‘New 52’ in 2011; the pair previously worked together at Marvel on 2015’s “All-New All-Different Avengers.” “Batman vs. Robin” #1 will go on sale this September, along with “World’s Finest” #7.
In other DC news today, the publisher released their solicitations for August. These reveal the delayed “The New Champion of Shazam” will begin that month; “Harley Quinn” will go weekly for a ‘Task Force XX Space Extravaganza’ story; the deceased Hippolyta will be joining the Greek gods in the one-shot “Olympus: Rebirth,” by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Caitlin Yarsky, and Jordie Bellaire; and that there will be an 80-page, school-themed anthology called “Saved by the Belle Reve,” which will include new “Tiny Titans” and “Gotham Academy” stories by the books’ original creators. We’ll have more on DC’s August releases in our Soliciting Multiversity column later this month.
