Be careful what you wish for … maybe? Reading Joshua Williamson’s two Dawn of DC volumes of Batman and Robin, I wanted something with a few more teeth — if Batman and Robin, Bruce and Damian Wayne, made their peace, then whatever is this series even about? With the DC All In Batman and Robin Vol. 1: Memento, new series writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson has an answer … but I think some of you aren’t going to like it.

Whether intentionally or accidentally, there’s a sizable amount of the closeness between Bruce and Damian that developed under Williamson that Johnson just ignores. Further, Johnson presents a conception of Batman that’s bonkers really, outside the mainstream, and doesn’t line up with what we see in a variety of places.