And there's other subtle changes: Robin Damian Wayne - always one moment from crippling his opponent - takes the grim and gritty role Damian is so like his father that even when he tears off his "R" patch and momentarily quits the partnership, he keeps his mask on - like Bruce Wayne before him, there's no real difference between Damian and his superheroic alter ego. But these latter elements have a small new shine in that the former flies and the other is now a 1970s-style playboy penthouse.
There's still a Batman, still a Robin they still get cases from Commissioner Gordon heck, there's still even a Batmobile and a Batcave. Batman and Robin presents itself with a healthy dose of twenty-first century irreverence, but it's no less thoughtful than the books that came before.īatman and Robin offers Batman reinvented, but with nothing so dramatic as an elderly Bruce Wayne directing a young new Batman from afar, nor Batman-gone-underground leading an army of street toughs. Whereas RIP holds such far-flung adventures as "The Superman of Planet X" directly up to the reader's face in the form of a half-crazed Batman, Reborn is far less self-referential, masking all its deconstruction as character elements.
The clever thing about Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin: Batman Reborn is that unlike Morrison's Batman RIP, which dragged the disparate sci-fi elements of the Batman mythos kicking and screaming into a cohesive Batman narrative, Batman and Robin's study of the Batman mythos is all in the background.
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