Batman and robin reborn6/22/2023 ![]() The basic set-up is just barely credible, even for superhero comics, and the story seems to focus on grotesquerie for the sake of grotesquerie. She becomes the Hood’s sidekick, taking the name “Scarlet.” ![]() The stories are bridged by Sasha, the daughter of one of Toad’s henchmen from the first story arc, converted by Professor Pyg into one of his “dolls,” complete with replacement face. The problem with the Red Hood is that he knows no limits. It segues into the second series, in which Batman and Robin are confronted by a vigilante who styles himself “The Red Hood” (who, as it happens, is Jason Todd, another former Robin). Morrison’s first story arc involves a rather bizarre circus, Le Cirque d’Etrange a mind-control drug Professor Pyg, who has a thing about replacing people’s faces with something rather more generic and your basic drug-and-prostitution industry. It’s not an ideal mix, as far as personalities go. Robin is Bruce Wayne’s son Damian, ten years old, raised by his mother and her league of assassins, returned home to undertake his part of his father’s legacy. ![]() In this case, Batman is Dick Grayson, the former Robin, the former Nightwing. Grant Morrison, in Batman Reborn, has brought us the next generation of - well, of Batman and Robin. ![]()
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