That's Batman vs. Robin ... not Batman and Robin.
Writer Mark Waid's DC renaissance continues this September when he and artist Mahmud Asrar and colorist Nathan Fairbairn team for a five-issue limited series titled Batman vs. Robin.
First announced by Popverse, the series (which will feature oversized issues) sees the always fraught relationship between Bruce Wayne and his son Damian Wayne bubble over into a full-blown conflict and maybe even a full-blown war (and we'll explain why in a moment).
For his part, Asrar described the series as an "event" to "shake things up for Bruce’s world," on his Instagram page.
Batman vs. Robin spins out of the first arc of Waid's current Batman/Superman: World's Finest ongoing series with artist Dan Mora.
"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," the writer told Popverse. "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."
World's Finest, for readers not yet familiar, is a series with Silver Age sensibilities set in the past when Dick Grayson was still Robin (though towards the end of his tenure, trying on long pants for the first time) and in Newsarama's eyes, Robin is the star of the fun and funky series.
And Waid told Popverse Batman vs. Robin isn't the only spin-off from World's Finest in the works. According to the writer, World's Finest's second story arc will also start in September and will also cross over with
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