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DC: The Source has posted the cover to Batman and Robin #17 cover and Newsarama has #18 cover (both done by artist Patrick Gleason) and a interview with writer Peter Tomasi:
Newsarama: How does the presence of two Batmen affect your comic?
Peter Tomasi: As they say, two Batmen are better than one! But Bruce being back is definitely a factor that affects the entire Bat-family of course on many different levels. In Batman & Robin though, I’ll be mainly dealing with Dick Grayson as Batman and Damien Wayne as Robin. That’s not to say that Bruce won’t be around in our pages, he most definitely will, but as people’ll see, we'll open the book addressing Bruce's return in a very personal way and take it from there.
Nrama: Since you're keeping Dick Grayson as Batman and Damian Wayne as Robin, will the dynamic between them be the same in Batman & Robin as it has been?
Tomasi: Their dynamic is evolving and growing. There's still a lot to explore in their relationship and how they view each other, but the basis of their interpersonal and crime-fighting foundation was nicely set up by Grant, so there’s no reason to deviate from it. These are two very different people, they think differently and they kick-ass differently.
Also, the fact that Bruce is back from his ‘travels’ so to speak, is going to affect Damian in many ways. This is a kid who, in the space of a very short time, learned Bruce was his father, started to develop a relationship with him, had him die, and now has him suddenly back from the ‘dead’. An emotional rollercoaster for any kid, to say the least.
Nrama: Will the tone of the book be the same, or are you bringing your own Pete Tomasi feel to it?
Tomasi: I think the tone of the book will be similar, but there’ll be no getting around the fact it will have a different feel since Grant’s a god and I’m a lowly demi-god, so purely on that basis alone it will be a Peter Tomasi book. But I do want to mention that I have no intention of coming on the book and people saying "Whoa! What is this? Where's the Batman & Robin we know and love?" That’s not going to happen. I’m not trying to recreate the wheel here. My mission on this book is no different than Grant’s. I want to tell cool stories and blow stuff up while also learning more about these great characters. I also want to try and keep introducing some new villains along the way too. So, let’s just say I'm not here to derail Batman & Robin with some avant-garde perspective, though the first issue takes place entirely in a box filled with parrots.
Nrama: A lot of us are familiar with your take on Dick Grayson when he was Nightwing, since you were the last writer on that title. How will your take on Dick as Batman be the same and how will it be different as you write him in Batman & Robin?
Tomasi: Dick Grayson is Dick Grayson. The core of who he is and what makes him tick is quite different than Bruce. Dick simply processes life through his own unique filter. But having said that, there’s something about the cape and the cowl that does bring with it a uniformity of perspective. Being Nightwing is simply not the same as being Batman and Dick is smart enough to know that. Nightwing was who he is, there was no ‘mask’ he put on, he simply changed into his working clothes and went to work, no muss, no fuss. Being Batman for him is like putting on a different mask, one that he can handle for sure, but I think it puts him on the fence regarding his approach, because in my mind, Dick isn’t someone who can submerge completely into a role like Batman. He can try and he can succeed to a great extent at many different times and scenarios, but who he is will always come through and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. And it really boils down to the fact that I had a blast writing Nightwing, and I’m gonna have an even bigger blast writing him as Batman.
And since you mentioned my Nightwing series, Vaneta, fans of that run will find me making a nod to an important scene at the end of Nightwing #151 and using it as an emotional springboard to Batman & Robin. You don’t’ have to read it to enjoy the new scene in Batman & Robin, but for my ol’ Nightwing readers I think they’ll get a kick out of it.
Check out the entire interview here.
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