Batman & Robin
What Are You Reading?
The Man with the Getaway Face
Welcome to a special holiday weekend edition of What Are You Reading?, as we take a break from hot dogs and street festivals to take a look at what comics we’ve been reading this week. Our special guest this week is Vito Delsante, writer of FCHS and the upcoming Stray. When he isn’t making comics, he’s selling them at Jim Hanley’s Universe, located in New York near the Empire State Building.
To see what Vito and the rest of the Robot 6 crew are reading, click below …
- May 30, 2010 @ 03:17 PM by JK Parkin
What Are You Reading?
Scalped
With the school year ending and summer arriving faster than you know it, now’s the time to update your summer reading list — and there’s no better place to find some good stuff to read than right here in our weekly What Are You Reading? column. This week our guests are Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, the creative team behind The Sixth Gun, published by Oni Press. You’ll be seeing a lot of Cullen and Brian over the next few weeks here at Robot 6, so here’s the perfect opportunity to find out what comics they’re into.
- May 16, 2010 @ 12:00 PM by JK Parkin
Straight for the tat | Cameron Stewart’s convention-sketch Batman tattoo
Batman tattoo based on the art of Cameron Stewart
“Did the most terrifying commission of my life today at C2E2,” tweeted Batman & Robin artist Cameron Stewart on Saturday. What made it so scary? The guy who commissioned the piece — a drawing of Batman, to be specific — told Stewart he planned on immediately getting it tattooed on his body. No pressure!
Fortunately, the words “Cameron Stewart” are pretty much a seal of quality when it comes to drawings of Batman, and as Stewart revealed today, the tattoo came out bitchin’. You can click here to see the original art, too. “A busy convention is not my ideal environment to draw something that will go on someone’s body forever,” Stewart noted, but he really shouldn’t worry so much.
- April 21, 2010 @ 09:00 AM by Sean T. Collins
A Dynamic Duo of Batman & Robin art posts
from Batman & Robin #9 by Cameron Stewart
On his blog, outgoing Batman & Robin artist Cameron Stewart has posted a selection of black-and-white pages from issue #9. Man, you could practically bathe in those inks.
- March 4, 2010 @ 12:00 PM by Sean T. Collins
Wasn’t there a Seinfeld episode about this?
Not the cover to Batman & Robin #9
Naw, I guess if it’d been on Seinfeld it would have been about Superman. Anyway, Cameron Stewart says via Twitter that this is a “rejected cover sketch for Batman & Robin #9.” Somehow I think he’s kidding. All I know is that if I were young Damian Wayne I’d be pretty pissed at Dick Grayson’s insensitivity too.
- February 19, 2010 @ 10:41 AM by Sean T. Collins
Fan shares alternate look at Quitely’s Red Hood
First off, a big thank you to Robot 6 reader Mark Spitz, who shared this with us over email. Mark recently purchased some original Frank Quitely art from Graphic Collectibles, and it included a bonus of sorts.
“I was lucky enough to purchase a couple of Frank Quitely pages from Batman and Robin #1, including #22 (the “do not miss” page),” Spitz wrote. “I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there were actually two versions of the Red Hood panel and both were included in my purchase. The original shows the Red Hood in a different costume with different guns.”
Here are all three versions, starting with the original version and ending with a scan from the published issue:
Again, thanks to Mark for sharing this cool purchase!
- September 22, 2009 @ 12:10 PM by JK Parkin
What Are You Reading?
Love and Rockets New Stories #2
Welcome, welcome, welcome to another round of What Are You Reading. I am very pleased this week to say that our guest is Jeet Heer, the peerless critic and historian who, when not writing introductions for Little Orphan Annie or Krazy Kat collections, can be found at the Sans Everything or the Comics Comics blogs.
Jeet and the rest of the crew have been reading a lot this week and are eager to share, so get clicking on that link pardners.
- August 30, 2009 @ 10:00 AM by Chris Mautner
What are you reading?
Essential Man-Thing Vol. 1
Welcome to What Are You Reading Our guest this week is the blogger and critic Noah Berlatsky.
Click on the link to find out what Noah and the rest of us are currently reading. And don’t forget to tell us what you’re reading too in the comments section.
- June 7, 2009 @ 10:45 AM by Chris Mautner
Looks like Batman and Robin are getting a little competition
Batman and Robin #4 cover
DC Comics has released the cover art to Batman and Robin #4, the new series by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely that took the world by storm this week with the release of its first issue. The cover shows the new (dynamic?) duo who appeared on a preview image at the end of the first issue. Since I’m always wrong when I start guessing who might be under the mask, I’ll leave that to you guys …
- June 5, 2009 @ 08:50 AM by JK Parkin
Batman, talk to the hand
The flowing river of marvelous previews that is the DC Comics Source blog runneth over today, with a sneak at Frank Quitely’s cover to Batman and Robin #3:
Batman and Robin #3
They have a couple of interior pages, too, so be sure to follow the link to check them out.
- May 7, 2009 @ 09:15 AM by JK Parkin
Batman & Robin is ‘like David Lynch doing the Batman TV show’
From "Batman & Robin" #1
More details have begun to trickle out about Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s run on the new series Batman & Robin, finally confirmed yesterday by DC Comics.
In a brief interview with IGN.com, Morrison describes the title “as the next book in what will be a five-volume series beginning [with] ‘Batman & Son’,” the 2006 Batman story arc that introduced Damian Wayne as the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul.
Compared to “Batman & Son” and “Batman RIP,” Morrison says Batman & Robin is “maybe more poppy, and more colourful, but it’s also creepier.”
“It’s like David Lynch doing the Batman TV show,” he says.
There are more details at the link, of course.
- March 11, 2009 @ 02:45 PM by Kevin Melrose
The Dynamic Duo (Morrison and Quitely) strikes again!
From the cover of Batman & Robin #1, by Frank Quitely
As Comic Book Resources reported earlier on the front page, DC Comics confirmed today the long-running rumor that All-Star Superman collaborators Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely will reteam in June for the new series Batman & Robin.
It’s welcome, if not exactly unexpected, news. I’ve been hoping for Quitely on a Bat-book since I saw his variant cover for All-Star Batman and Robin #10. And I don’t care how long it takes him to draw it.
CBR has the teaser art from this week’s “DC Nation” page, while IGN.com has the full cover from Issue 1 (part of which you see above).
- March 10, 2009 @ 05:34 PM by Kevin Melrose