We Are Robin #4 Review

Writer: Lee Bermejo / Artist: James Harvey, Khary Randolph / DC Comics This issue serves as a stand alone and the shit is incredible. Lee Bermejo reveals that we’ve lost the first We Are Robin member to the cause (that we know of) with Troy being dead. This issue deals with the fallout. We see Riko in class hallucinating talks with Batgirl (we only hear Riko’s side of the conversation), a look at how she is perceived in her high school, dealing with her mother talking about Troy’s death and how effective the new Robins are, and then still going out on patrol in Gotham (where she runs into Batgirl).

I was taken back by the art at first when I was reading it at night (in bed, dead tired) and I’m so glad I decided to read this issue the following morning. James Harvey is the guest artist on here and the style he brings was colorful and vibrant, which has been a complete deviation from how Gotham and the characters have been depicted previously by the usual team. Not to say one is better than the other — it makes perfect sense that in this stand alone issue where we are so deep into Riko’s personal life that it would be colorful contrast to when she is out on patrol. The depiction of her at school really stands out and the way the captions are tweets/messages of other people talking is fucking brilliant. It really brings a new sense of updating to the usual style of captions done in comics. It’s such a small detail but it has made the book stand out amongst numerous titles.

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