James Harvey
12-11-2001, 01:29 PM
The website <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com">Comic Book Resources</a> recently talked to Jon Lewis, the new upcoming writer for Robin. In the interview, Lewis let spill of some upcoming stories for the comic title:
<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/covers/2002-02/batman/robin99.gif"><img src="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/covers/2002-02/batman/robin99.gif" vspace=3 hspace=3 align="right" border=0 height=249 width=147></a>"The Drakes, Tim included, are going to be living right in the heart of Gotham. You'll see why in the last couple of issues of Chuck's run. The conceit of my first storyline is that there's a big area of wreckage from the terrible earthquake not far from the Drakes' building. In story time, the mega-earthquake storyline took place not quite two years ago, and huge areas of Gotham were laid waste, so I figure there's bound to still be areas they just haven't gotten to yet in the rebuilding process. This patch of ruins is almost like a weird kind of park – the things people are doing back in the ruins are a lot like the things they do back in the woods of a big city park. Robin's back in there, just routinely checking it out, really, while inwardly he's in turmoil, trying to process the really awful stuff that's been happening between he and Batman and their circle of friends. This stuff is forcing him into some uncomfortable questions. While he's wandering the ruins trying to cope with this problem mentally, he ends up being forced to cope with it physically, in a very direct and urgent way. That's all I'll say. In my second issue, that leads to the discovery of an odd kind of unregulated social scene going on amongst the ruins, in which we find a character you might recognize from mid-1980's-era Batman stories. Matt mentioned her to me as a possible element for our first few issues - they'd been wanting to use her somehow for awhile, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I went and read up on her and thought, 'man, what an odd, ridiculous, interesting character!' She's one of the many characters who may or may not have been retroactively erased from the continuity when they did Crisis On Infinite Earths and all that. I don't think anyone's certain about that. So, she's based on the '80s character, but I reconceived some things about her and we're basically playing it like she's never appeared before. She has a power that's constantly at work, but no one knows it exists, including her. A really creepy situation develops with her, Tim and Steph. Vague enough for ya?"
To read the whole interview, go <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=690">HERE</a>.
<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/covers/2002-02/batman/robin99.gif"><img src="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/covers/2002-02/batman/robin99.gif" vspace=3 hspace=3 align="right" border=0 height=249 width=147></a>"The Drakes, Tim included, are going to be living right in the heart of Gotham. You'll see why in the last couple of issues of Chuck's run. The conceit of my first storyline is that there's a big area of wreckage from the terrible earthquake not far from the Drakes' building. In story time, the mega-earthquake storyline took place not quite two years ago, and huge areas of Gotham were laid waste, so I figure there's bound to still be areas they just haven't gotten to yet in the rebuilding process. This patch of ruins is almost like a weird kind of park – the things people are doing back in the ruins are a lot like the things they do back in the woods of a big city park. Robin's back in there, just routinely checking it out, really, while inwardly he's in turmoil, trying to process the really awful stuff that's been happening between he and Batman and their circle of friends. This stuff is forcing him into some uncomfortable questions. While he's wandering the ruins trying to cope with this problem mentally, he ends up being forced to cope with it physically, in a very direct and urgent way. That's all I'll say. In my second issue, that leads to the discovery of an odd kind of unregulated social scene going on amongst the ruins, in which we find a character you might recognize from mid-1980's-era Batman stories. Matt mentioned her to me as a possible element for our first few issues - they'd been wanting to use her somehow for awhile, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I went and read up on her and thought, 'man, what an odd, ridiculous, interesting character!' She's one of the many characters who may or may not have been retroactively erased from the continuity when they did Crisis On Infinite Earths and all that. I don't think anyone's certain about that. So, she's based on the '80s character, but I reconceived some things about her and we're basically playing it like she's never appeared before. She has a power that's constantly at work, but no one knows it exists, including her. A really creepy situation develops with her, Tim and Steph. Vague enough for ya?"
To read the whole interview, go <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=690">HERE</a>.