We Are Robin #2 Review

Writer: Lee Bermejo / Art: Jorge Corona, Rob Haynes, Khary Randolph / DC Comics We’re at the second installment of We Are Robin and Bermejo hits the ground running as the pace increases with action and a multitude of choices faced by Duke Thomas. We see Duke meet the Robin squad and there’s immediately a sense of chemistry with his snark. We’re seeing the others flourish as a unit as well, calling out to each other and looking out for one another. It’s obvious everyone is still rather new to this vigilante work but they all show extreme potential. We see the personality of each of these very diverse (thank freaking god) cast of teens taking on the role of guardians for their city.

Duke gets an incentive to become something more, which is a bit of a different approach to the vigilante career that people get involved in with Gotham. Bermerjo has the story move fast, but the level of believability works incredibly well. We see the incentive being Duke Thomas given a chance to do something, to defend his own with tools provided to him. Especially with everything going on in the states concerning the lack of care towards Black lives from authority, to see Duke Thomas bluntly express his distrust for cops is truly a perfect moment. The way he throws himself into action as his own choice is a very defining moment and a great insight into his character for the reader.

Randolph, Corona, and Haynes on that art work? I can’t express how much I am fucking with them. They got the city l…