Absolute Robin Is a Large Goddamn Robotic

DC’s Absolute universe launched an arms race of simply how freakishly large you could possibly make a comic book e-book character when it kicked issues off with the impressively wide Absolute Batman himself, a unit of a vigilante superhero. Then issues began getting bigger and freakier as Bruce’s thick-torsoed world expanded even further. Now? Nicely, they’re taking the piss as a result of the Robin of the Absolute universe is lastly right here—and he’s extra mecha than boy marvel.

This week DC Comics revealed the duvet for its newest milestone problem of Absolute Batman, its twentieth, absolutely revealing that Absolute Robin is on the way in which… and that Absolute Robin is a Gundam hopped up on Bane juice.

Truly, much more than that, Absolute Robin is definitely one among a number of big robots we’re getting. It looks as if “Robin” is much less of a person mantle and extra of a workforce title. We additionally see what seems to be a extra medically inclined Robin-bot stomping within the background of the duvet, in addition to a trio of extra fairly sized human beings surrounding Batman, carrying color-coded armor with matching bikes. So perhaps it’s much less that the Robins are Gundams and extra that the Robins, as a workforce, are principally a Energy Rangers/Tremendous Sentai riff. However presumably way more tousled, given the same old tone of the Absolute books.

Right here’s the transient logline for problem 20, supplied by DC:

Because the mud settles within the metropolis of Gotham after the lack of [redacted], Robins enter the scene able to hunt and a couple of secret can be revealed on this seminal problem.

Funnily sufficient, this isn’t the primary time Absolute Batman author Scott Snyder has dabbled in a world of bat-mechs. Back in 2015 throughout his run on the principle Batman, when prime-Bruce had stopped being Batman after a brutal combat with the Joker, Jim Gordon took over Bat-duties along with his personal mech go well with (it eventually got destroyed, alas). So Snyder should actually simply love the thought!

I suppose when your Batman is already constructed like a tank, making Robin an enormous robotic is only a logical measurement development. Perhaps at any time when we get Absolute Batgirl, she could be a Loss of life Star? Absolute Batman #20 is ready to hit cabinets Could 13.

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