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Title: Robin: Year One by Scott Chuck/Beatty Dixon ISBN: 1-56389-805-5 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good story for the Boy Wonder
Comment: Robin is one of the more popular, from a Pop culture commentary at least, comic book characters in in history. The early days of the character, his motivation and the reason's behind Batman's choice for acquiring a protégé is an interesting subject and worthy of exploration. This book unfortunately only covers these matters on a very surface level, and this is the one thing lacking in this book.
The story presented in "Robin: Year One" is very well organized and told in a direct manner and the artwork for this story is very well done. Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty do a great job of establishing the plot of this book and make a good choice of using Alfred Pennyworth as the narrative voice for this book. By using Alfred the authors are able to use him both as a device to move the plot of the story as well as due to provide an additional level of characterization to the three feature characters, Batman, Robin, and Alfred. The limitation of using this device is that while Alfred continuously questions Batman using a protégé the question is never put to Batman nor is it explained in another way, leaving this questioned unresolved throughout the story results in an unresolved plotline to the book.
The artwork for this book is provided by Javier Pulido and Robert Campanella. The style of these two artists is more characteristic of the animated "Batman" shows than the current line of Batman comicbooks. This choice of artistic style does not distract from the story, if anything it adds another dimension to it. The artists' styles give the story a timeless quality to it and add a classical feeling to the story itself. The clean lines and efficient presentation of action and scenery gives the story a tighter feel and can appeal to most reader's, without getting a dated look for later readers that many recent artists' styles have done.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not your normal "Year One."
Comment: The 'Year One' story has become commonplace in comics today, and far too often the writers attempt to retell or update the character's origin, failing in the attempt. (For a perfect example of this see 'Spider-Man: Chapter One.' Better yet, don't.) This story evades that trap entirely and turns into a great character study of the boy who would become Nightwing and his relationship with his shadowy father-figure.
Chuck Dixon, between his work on Robin, Nightwing and the Birds of Prey, has got to be the most successful writer of Batman's 'family' there ever was. In this book he teams with Scott Beatty to craft a tale not of the origin of Dick Grayson's Robin, but of his early adventures after he already secured the job. It shows off a new villain, makes it clear that things were not as easy as it would seem, and showcases the precarious nature of the relationship between Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson in a fashion as good or better than any I've ever seen.
Dixon and Beatty also fill in a few blanks along the way. In encounters with later Robins -- Jason Todd and Tim Drake -- we learn that the criminal Two-Face was obsessed with Batman's junior partner. This story shows off how that began. We get to see a lot of the lamer villains -- the Mad Hatter in particular, in a far creepier light than usual. We even get some good character moments between Robin and then-Captain Jim Gordon, who is one of the best supporting characters in the history of comics.
All in all, a really good book for the Batman or Nightwing fan.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not your normal "Year One."
Comment: The "Year One" story has become commonplace in comics today, and far too often the writers attempt to retell or update the character's origin, failing in the attempt. (For a perfect example of this see "Spider-Man: Chapter One." Better yet, don't.) This story evades that trap entirely and turns into a great character study of the boy who would become Nightwing and his relationship with his shadowy father-figure.
Chuck Dixon, between his work on Robin, Nightwing and the Birds of Prey, has got to be the most successful writer of Batman's "family" there ever was. In this book he teams with Scott Beatty to craft a tale not of the origin of Dick Grayson's Robin, but of his early adventures after he already secured the job. It shows off a new villain, makes it clear that things were not as easy as it would seem, and showcases the precarious nature of the relationship between Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson in a fashion as good or better than any I've ever seen.
Dixon and Beatty also fill in a few blanks along the way. In encounters with later Robins -- Jason Todd and Tim Drake -- we learn that the criminal Two-Face was obsessed with Batman's junior partner. This story shows off how that began. We get to see a lot of the lamer villains -- the Mad Hatter in particular, in a far creepier light than usual. We even get some good character moments between Robin and then-Captain Jim Gordon, who is one of the best supporting characters in the history of comics.
All in all, a really good book for the Batman or Nightwing fan.
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Title: Batgirl Year One by Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon ISBN: 140120080X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale ISBN: 1563898683 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Nightwing: A Knight in Bludhaven by Chuck Dixon ISBN: 1563894254 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Nightwing: A Darker Side of Justice by Chuck Dixon ISBN: 1563897032 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Nightwing: The Hunt for Oracle by Chuck Dixon ISBN: 156389940X Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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