BRUCE WAYNE THE ROAD HOME RED ROBIN #1

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Written by FABIAN NICIEZA
Art by RAMON BACHS and JOHN LUCAS
Cover by SHANE DAVIS

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

Now that’s how you do a one-shot that can also be included as part of a mini-series. Firstly, you hire the guy who writes Red Robin, the character the issue is about, and the guy who used to draw it. That way, it can be effectively slotted into the Red Robin canon, as a whole. That being said, this issue was still far from perfect.

Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Red Robin #1 presents us with the concept that Tim Drake and the mysterious Insider (have you worked out who he is yet?) are working together to take down Red Robin’s old enemies, the Council of Spiders. It’s partly a test of their threat level, but also a test, on the part of the Insider, of Tim’s skills as Red Robin.

The story manages to engage throughout, carrying on the majority of the threads from the previous one-shot, as well as the regular Red Robin ongoing. If nothing else, Fabian Nicieza understands Tim Drake, and as a result of that, we get one of the best Boy Wonder characterisations in the last decade. Tim is impulsive and brash, but also calculating and manipulative; the perfect successor to Batman, in many ways more so than Dick Grayson.

Ramon Bachs art, meanwhile, causes a whirlwind of desire on the part of a Red Robin fan; his departure from the series and subsequent replacement with Marcus To may not be such a bad thing, but seeing him draw the supporting characters again does conjure up a sense of longing.

The final pages of the one-shot tease one of the other upcoming instalments in the series, but as that’s still a few weeks away, it’s best to take it on face value alone at present.

To Be Continued in “Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Outsiders #1”

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good

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