As Joshua Williams Leaves Robin Series In August 2022 To Focus On Dark Crisis and Beyond, Mark Waid Teases Batman Vs. Robin Series For DC Comics September 2022 Solicitations Spoilers?!
(1) Writer Joshua Williamson leaves Robin series in August 2022 after leaving Batman series and Deathstroke Inc. series to focus on Dark Crisis and new 2023 series (plural).
(2) While new Robin creative team not yet known, Superman / Batman writer is penning a new Batman vs. Robin limited series beginning in September 2022.
Waid spilled some details of the five issue mini-series, with art by Mahmud Asrar, at Popverse.
“What I can say is that the first arc of World’s Finest is, was, and always has been, designed deliberately to lead into what is going to be Batman vs. Robin,” the writer teases. “What I was trying to do with Batman versus Robin was try to take them into a realm that I’m not used to seeing them in, which is dark magic sorcery, rather than science, rather than logic and detective stuff. We’ve seen Batman and sort of peripheral magic, but I want to get into the down and dirty of it.”
“They’re two separate things. What the second arc [of World’s Finest] is leading into is not on the radar yet… I can’t hardly say anything, but there’s something in that second arc that the payoff is, ‘Oh! I didn’t realize that the payoff is part of something that I’ve known for a long time’.”
“There’s no point being subtractive to a superhero universe. Every time we limit someone’s powers or put on some new limitation to what they can do and how they can do it, that’s just counter to the whole spirit of comics and superhero comics,” he says. “Comics are not about rules. Comics are about flying, right?”
Batman / Superman: World’s Finest #7, Robin #19, Dark Crisis #4 and Batman vs. Robin #1 both land in stores in September 2022.