Review of
Batman:
A Death in the Family, by Jim Starlin, Marv Wolfman, Jim Aparo
and George Perez ISBN 9781401232740.
Five out of five stars
This sequence
of continuous stories is about Batman and his fundamental need for a close crime
fighting companion, A.K.A. a Robin. There are three Robins in this sequence of
stories, the original Dick Grayson that went on to become Nightwing, his
replacement Jason Todd and the young and talented trainee, Tim Drake.
There is a
great deal of psychological undercurrent in this series of stories, the primary
question is, “Does Batman need a young sidekick Robin in order to function
effectively?” When the Jason Todd version of Robin is killed by the Joker with
help from Jason’s mother, Batman grows hard and distant, taking risks far
beyond those that he considered when working with the Grayson version of Robin.
Through the
psychoanalysis, there are battles to be fought with Two-Face and the Joker,
both ruthless men that are psychotic, yet geniuses in their own right. As the
stories unfold, there are some odd twists that are unexpected, the reader is
forever uncertain regarding the fate of the main characters. After all, if you
can kill off Robin, all others are at risk.
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