James Harvey
10-29-2001, 11:04 AM
<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/covers/2001-12/batman/robin97.jpg"><img src="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/covers/2001-12/batman/robin97.jpg" height=200 width=134 border=0 vspace=3 hspace=3 align="right"></a> Scott Beatty isn't the only new writer on the Batman family titles come 2002, but a new write ron Robin is hoping to help spice things up for the long running sidekick comic. New writer Jon Lewis was recently interveiwed by <a href="http://www.comicon.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000080.html">Comic Newsarama</a> about his plans for the title, hitting the landmark 100th issue in early 2002. Lewis revealed som eof his plans for the comic:
“Tim's going to be spending a lot more time immersed in Gotham City,” he said. “I want to explore Gotham as the City of Cities, the ultimate in old, dense, layered American settlements. But not in a gritty, cynical ‘noir’ kind of way. I want to show a city that's as puzzling as a labyrinth, as full of relics as a magic cabinet, as interwoven as a coral reef, as challenging to our preconceptions as any real city. Tim is great for exploring such things because he's got a level perspective, he's quite sane. That makes him a great barometer for the bizarre.
“At the same time, I want to get to know these characters as thoroughly as possible and let them be themselves. For me, the characters at the heart of the book are Tim, Stephanie, Tim's dad and stepmom, then sort of peripherally, Dick and Alfred, and ‘behind the curtain’ as it were, Bruce/Batman. I'm going to flesh them all out as humanly as I can manage, because that's the thing that engages me most as a writer - the challenge of really trying to imagine a human being."
To read the whole interview, go <a href="http://www.comicon.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000080.html">Here</a>.
“Tim's going to be spending a lot more time immersed in Gotham City,” he said. “I want to explore Gotham as the City of Cities, the ultimate in old, dense, layered American settlements. But not in a gritty, cynical ‘noir’ kind of way. I want to show a city that's as puzzling as a labyrinth, as full of relics as a magic cabinet, as interwoven as a coral reef, as challenging to our preconceptions as any real city. Tim is great for exploring such things because he's got a level perspective, he's quite sane. That makes him a great barometer for the bizarre.
“At the same time, I want to get to know these characters as thoroughly as possible and let them be themselves. For me, the characters at the heart of the book are Tim, Stephanie, Tim's dad and stepmom, then sort of peripherally, Dick and Alfred, and ‘behind the curtain’ as it were, Bruce/Batman. I'm going to flesh them all out as humanly as I can manage, because that's the thing that engages me most as a writer - the challenge of really trying to imagine a human being."
To read the whole interview, go <a href="http://www.comicon.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000080.html">Here</a>.