Pretty good

The conclusion of this series, while less hampered by setting up an event that wasn't a good event (but I repeat myself), has looser, less controlled art (but still vivid), and some really annoying preachy stuff in the climax about guns (which is done a lot better by Ed Brubaker in his Batman run from almost two decades ago).

There is a big hole in the plot between the end of the last volume and the start of this one due to a DC cross over event. The Robin's are not only broken up but outlawed. This is mostly the story of the team coming back together in their own way. I think to fully appreciate this one needs to read the Robin Wars first.

Nicely re-paced, following the Robin War cross-over. The core of the We Are Robin movement in breaking apart, until polarized by a psychopath at Middletown High.Duke Thomas gets my vote for the next Robin, should anything affect Damian Wayne's resurrection and return!

This little event takes place after the "huge" Robin War. There is no more "we" in each of the new Robins and they each are doing their own things. Whether its finding their lost parents or pursuing a crime-fighting life that they strongly believe in, the story mainly focuses on their individual motives in life and their struggle to believe in the Robin cause that was strongly shook by the Robin law. Coincidentally, this is also the moment when a certain juvenile individual with a facial defect

already read this when I read Robin Wars...sigh.

Overly dark art, overly mis-spelled or 'hip' names, and an anti-gun theme bludgeoned into the readers head. Combine these faults with a villain who could have been interesting in his own right but as Joker 2.0 is derivative, forced, and flat, and you are left with a disappointing volume.

Reprints We Are Robin #7-12 (February 2016-July 2016). The Robins have been disbanded and outlawed on the streets of Gotham…which makes things difficult when a gang calling the Jokerz start a crime spree around the city. Backed into a corner, the Robins might have to reform to stop the threat…save the city without anyone knowing.Written by Lee Bermejo, We Are Robin Volume 2: Jokers is a New 52 Batman spin-off title. Following We Are Robin Volume 1: The Vigilante Business, the collection features...

A kid is driven crazy because he got plastic surgery to give him a permanent smile when he was younger, and now goes on a rampage to kill a bunch of people, KINDA in the name of the Joker?I cannot believe Batman (whichever one is Batman at this point) would not interfere and take down this guy who is killing a bunch of people. Instead, the children of We Are Robin try to defeat him. It's so dumb and I truly don't care about any character because no one is developed.

Even better than Vol. 1. I like Bermejo has a created a world where the actions of Batman, the Joker, et. all inspire and conspire to draw ordinary citizens into the fray.

The Robins come face to face with their worst nightmare when a band of teenagers inspired by the Joker rise up in an effort to spread chaos among the already vulnerable city of Gotham.This second We Are Robin volume improves on the first by shedding quite a lot of its plotlines and focusing in properly. Duke's parents are finally recovered, the Court Of Owls stuff is all dealt with during Robin War (although the impact on this title feels fairly minimal since I didn't re-read the crossover and I...

loses some because I had to read Robin War before this. Ugh.Still, this volume works better because it's more about kids rising up than the entire Robin mythos.The new bad guy Smiley was a good placeholder for Joker. I enjoy the lowstakes Batman world they are creating with this.Some nice easter eggs like Daxton being the son of the guy who killed Bruce Wayne's parents. The reveal that Alfred is the Nest.Not having the awful Jim Gordon Batman helps the book.I liked the last chapter where it the

WARNING! POTENTIAL SPOILERS!It’s the last story in WE ARE ROBIN VOLUME 2: JOKERS, “The Hero Business,” that I enjoyed the most. The inclusion of “Jokers” made the volume’s title provocative but the story itself was a let down -- No new addition or twist to the “Joker lore” – No “Next Gen Joker” through Smiley – Just bait to get you to break the book’s spine.“Smiley” is Johnny Bender’s nickname after plastic surgery gone wrong. The premise of the operation was interesting but not explored. It wou...

3.5 StarsAfter the events of Robin War, the Robins have disbanded and gone back to their normal lives. They still keep in touch, but they don't patrol or "save the day". But.... that changes when "Smiley", a kid from Juvie who is literally crazy, goes home and murders his parents. He then paints his face to match his idol, the Joker, and recruits a gang to help him terrorize a high school. They claim "We Are Jokers".The Robins get back together to save the school from the Jokers, and they realiz...

After the outcome of Robin War, the Robins have hung up their suits. As they try and return to their normal lives, a gang devoted to the Joker rises. Will some of our Robins come out of retirement to deal with this new threat?I found the story kind of boring with very little of merit actually occurring. Jorge Corona's art is NOT very good. Glad to see this book end.

I loved the story in the first volume of We Are Robin. But between Vol 1 and here there was an epic world changing monstrous crossover event which besides sucking to high heaven and being generally a terrible idea and story it ruined the We Are Robin comic. This volume is the team recovering from something that did not even happen in their own comic book. It was stupid and angsty and lame. If I wanted to read a comic book about teens whining I could just read Archie or X-Men. I mean the best thi...

We Are Robin: Jokers picks up where the previous trade paperback left off, collecting the last six issues (7–12) of the 2015 on-going series.We Are Robin: Jokers opens with the Robin War event issue (We Are Robin #7) written by Lee Bermejo and penciled by Carmine Di Giandomenico. It is the fourth issue of six issues, so we don't know how the storyline started or how it would end and could be problematic if one hasn't read the proceeding issues.It starts out with the We Are Robin Gang witnessing

Every day, some things end...and others begin. The Robins are all over the place, splintered after the Robin War, and this issue is a glimpse into how everyone is fairing after disbanding. Duke, Izzy, Riko (shout out to those of you who remember her from Gotham Academy; hopefully we see her back some day!), Dax, and Dre feel like failures while trying to return to teenage "normalcy". Of course, just because the Robins aren’t actively being pursued by the GCPD doesn’t mean they get a break. Inste...

Maybe it's just the timing of reading this, but the major conflict in this volume (armed Joker wannabe kids taking over a school) was gross and unjustified. After a crossover issue from Robin War, we're dumped into a new Status Quo where the whole Robin thing has basically been dumped, and instead we're left with a core group of mopey kids who weren't memorable in the first place now being even more unmemorable trying to decide if they want to be Robins or not. And then we have the villainous Sm...

I just want this to end.World: The art is fine, nothing special. World building is spotty and illogical just like the entire premise of this series. Bad.Story: The story is choppy and the villain this arc was just unappealing, it was paced a bit better than the previous arc but not by much. The separate stories for each character was better but as I said in the last arc, they are all racial stereotypes which annoyed. This series ends with this arc and I'm so happy. This is garbage.Characters: Th...