Newsarama have the next exclusive... an interview with Grant Morrison to talk about what's coming up in Batman and Robin.

Newsarama: Grant, how is Batman and Robin distinctive from your other Batman stories, or indeed, what you would typically view as a Batman tale?

Grant Morrison: It’s different because Batman is a different person under the cowl. I don’t want to stray too far from what makes the character successful, so this has all the action, adventure and excitement you’d expect from a Batman book, although with perhaps a slightly more upbeat tone than we’ve seen for a while. The darks are very dark, but the light is neon-bright.

It’s always important to remember that Gotham isn’t some derelict hellhole, it’s the most larger-than-life, exciting city in the world. It has to be like New York plus or no-one would want to live there, so we’re emphasizing the excitement and color and buzz of the place, as well as its more familiar gloomy and gargoyle-y shadows. Gotham is where Crime becomes Art, after all.

NRAMA: With Batman RIP, you deconstructed Batman down to his absolute core, similar to his arc in 52. Now, obviously there's a while before Bruce Wayne comes back, but you do have this rebirth of Batman and Robin in the new series. Aside from what we've seen in Battle for the Cowl, what is the status quo we're looking at for the new series?

GM: The status quo is fiendishly simple: The ex-Robin is now Batman and Batman’s evil son is now Robin. They’re based at Wayne Tower in Gotham City’s midtown, and use the subterranean Bat-Bunker as a base of operations rather than the Batcave. And they have a flying Batmobile, as well as lots of other new vehicles and gadgets. Their mission, however, is the same as it’s always been - protect the innocent and rid the streets of weird criminal scum.

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(Source - Newsarama)