This begins with a Spanish politician's daughter being kidnapped and held for ransom. Red Robin, Tim Drake, takes down armed guards and an incendiary cyborg in order to save her. Red Robin seems skillful but cold and objective, almost stoic. And I'm wondering if I'm going to like this...But then comes the flashback vital to character building, to instilling sympathy in the reader. And I feel for Tim, I really do. Post-Final Crisis and Battle for the Cowl, Bruce is gone and presumed dead. Dick ta...

Following the death of Batman/Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson assumes the cowl and becomes the new Batman with Damian Wayne as the new Robin. Tim Drake feels that Bruce isn’t dead and begins searching the globe, following his footsteps in Grant Morrison’s story “The Return of Bruce Wayne”, to pick up clues that Bruce is still alive and is slowly making his way, through time, back to present day Gotham. In order to find Bruce though Tim has to ally himself with one of Batman’s greatest foes – Ra’s Al-G...

To be honest, I'm pretty jaded with comics right now, and DC Comics in particular given everything that has happened to my beloved characters who once formed Young Justice, the remnants of which can still be seen lingering in Teen Titans once scribed by ne'er-do-well Geoff Johns. Okay so he does do well on occasion for instance the aforementioned Titans, and Green Lantern (or so I've heard). Honestly, I don't care for how Johns writes most DC characters, too much like he's writing a movie and d

Red Robin #1-5.I loved this series when it first came out, so I'm happy to find it mostly holds up. Yost understands Tim and does well with the concept: he is the only person who believes Bruce is still alive, so he goes on an international quest to prove it while getting involved with Ra's Al Ghul and yheeague of Assassins. This volume alternates between scenes of the action-packed and espionage-soaked present, scenes from the recent past to show how and why Tim left his past in Gotham behind,

Poor Tim Drake/Robin. Your mother is dead, your father is dead. Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson, Batman & Robin, took you in when you had no one; Bruce made you his adopted son. Tim Drake became Tim Wayne.But now, Bruce Wayne is gone. Everyone believes him dead. But you know better. He’s alive. Bruce Wayne is alive. You know it in your heart of hearts … but no one believes you.Wait -- there is one man who has believes you -- one of Bruce Wayne’s greatest enemies, Ra’s al Ghul.Thus, the first volume o...

My Brief Bookshelf Overview: gave-up-before-finishing, hell-of-a-ride, unrealized-potentialAdditional Notes: This collection contains Red Robin issues #1-5.Tries and (mostly) fails to be serious, though not altogether a waste of time.

Great start to Tim branching off on his own after the rest of the batfam doesn’t believe that Bruce is still alive. Tim will travel the world and go to any lengths to find Batman. Nice opening for the series.

Their was only one major problem I had with Chris Yost's storytelling. There's no doubt that Yost understands the character of Tim Drake, and the obvious similarity - personality and mindset - he has with Batman. But when it comes to the execution of the story, I was confused on plenty of occasions.Yost constant use of flashbacks - especially when it didn't further the plot - threw off the pace of the story completely. I think there were parts of the story were the flashbacks weren't even proper...

BEST TIM DRAKE COMIC EVER.

We're 3 for 3 on Tim Drake stories where I am constantly begging DC to give him a BREAK There are great flashbacks to some time after Battle for the Cowl where Tim is just sort of reeling - his parents are dead, Bruce is dead, his friends are sort of letting him go, and Damian is taking over as Robin. Damian, in every panel that he's in in this volume, is the biggest little shit I've ever seen. Even Dick Grayson offers him a THERAPIST (which never happens lmao) and tim is so convinced he is alon...

Even though I always saw people recommending this series, somehow I never got around to read it until now - and oh boy I should have done this ages ago. IT IS SO SO SO GOOD. It gives me that amazing feeling that comic books should give me all the time but they somehow fail (especially the new series).I am very excited to see Tim's journey on finding Bruce, trying to deal with his losses and his depression, and also taking on Ra's Al Ghul. I'm also once again considering breaking the fourth wall

I've been talking to people, letting them know if my comic ever got going and I was approached by DC to take on a character it would be Tim. Not because I love him, but because I believe he hasn't been all that interesting of a character in anything I read. (If you want to hear more about my pitch let me know! I'll post it/PM you!) However, this is the first Tim-only story I read, and I actually dug it! So Tim is lost. His parents are dead, Dick took on Damien as the next Robin, and he is the on...

still my favorite comic book run and character

I think I just don't have enough context to properly appreciate this? May return to it after I understand more of WHAT IS HAPPENING.Other thoughts:- TIM MY POOR KID I BELIEVE IN U- damian no- this isn't news but i'm still batfam trash- also this was scheduled to arrive on tim's birthday and i am very sad that it arrived late.

This just wasn't enough, the story is short and it only moves a little bit from what is going to be the big picture. (The Return of Bruce Wayne)

Art by Ramon Bachs: Great action sequences and vibrant pictures. The only weak point, for me that is, are the faces of the characters: their features are very rough, not sharp enough, not... well, pretty enough, to be honest.Story by Christopher Yost: Fascinating story, well written and perfectly interconnected, not told in a linear way, but every scene has its own place. It's a character piece and at the same time, there's a large picture that you don't see until you have all the pieces.I'm lov...

Hmmm... not sure what to say. It could be that I'm just not feeling very well and can't focus ont the book, but I'm just bored and right now I can't finish it. Not sure what I expected, but maybe I will revisit it some day.

Tim drake is truly the best Robin. He’s the smartest, strongest and kindest. Best bat family member!

Red Robin was an American comic book ongoing series published in 2009. It features former Robin, Tim Drake under the identity of Red Robin. The debut of the series follows the events of Batman R.I.P., Final Crisis, and Battle for the Cowl in which the original Batman, Bruce Wayne, apparently died at the hands of Darkseid. He is the only one that believes Bruce Wayne is still alive and leaves Gotham City to begin a global search for evidence supporting his theory and hope.Red Robin: The Grail col...

4.5I really enjoyed this. All of the Robins have a schtick, and Tim Drake’s was probably the one with which I’m least familiar. That gets solved real quick, as his character and motivation are really well defined here. He’s on his own and is essentially cutting all ties to get to the bottom of one of the most important mysteries of the DC Universe (at the time)(view spoiler)[ Batman died at the end of Infinite Crisis, but Tim believes he’s still alive and obviously...he is (hide spoiler)]. He’s