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Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill by Guy Major, Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, Peter J. Tomasi, John Kalisz
4.0

Whoa, I REALLY enjoyed this.

So Damien is a interesting character (he's tied for my number 2 Robin with Tim.) but but thing I really liked here was just the breakdown of his relationship with Bruce. I enjoyed Damien's time with Dick but he was different with dick. He viewed him as a brother, or partner, not a father or leader. So seeing Damien readjust to it all, to follow his father's lead, is both interesting and actually really funny at times cause Damien the king of burns.

I love watching them work together, fight, and the having a strong backstory of a villain name Nobody coming into the picture really helped further the character development of both Bruce and Damien.

Some pacing issues at the start, feeling a bit like backtracking some earlier development with Damien. However as it went on it wasn't doing so much that but focusing on Damien learning to work with his father instead of Dick. So I forgave it as it went on.

A 4 to a 4.5/5 for this one.