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Robin, Vol. 2 by Chuck Dixon7/5/2023 ‘Shadow Box’ is more a Batman story, but early in Tim’s new crime fighting career. They present a few minor puzzles along the way, but their only real purpose is to move the cast from one scene to the next. This is much needed for a series in which the lead character spends most of the time either in action or swinging toward it, and Lyle’s spiky head design for Robin works well in distinguishing him from his predecessors.ĭixon’s scripts follow the action movie template. There are also some impressively ornate pages, particularly those early on reproducing decorative Chinese architecture and landmarks, and he’s also strong on conveying motion. Here the storytelling is equally strong, but he’s lost much of the clutter and improved his figurework, although there are still some off moments. Lyle’s art is far better than in R eb o r n solo outing, where cramped panels were the order of the day. The remainder of the book is the work of Chuck Dixon and Tom Lyle over three stories. The material introducing him was reprinted in Reborn, from where this picks up.Īlan Grant writes an opening strip that appears to have misguided moments, but which comes good in the end, and art from Norm Breyfogle is always welcome. There are some who might attribute this to a readership not accepting a working class street kid in the role, but perhaps it’s nothing other than a better written character more in tune with the times. Tim Drake caught on as Robin in a manner that his predecessor Jason Todd never did.
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