

“Not to say the others didn’t, but it was a mission for Tim right from the start. “Tim is, in my mind, the Robin who worked his butt off to be Robin,” Zdarsky said when his run was first announced.

Zdarsky’s current run on Batman has prominently featured Tim Drake, who somewhat fell into the background of the Batman mythos following the reveal of the fourth Robin, Damian Wayne. RELATED: DC’s Team of ‘Evil’ Robins Confirm All of Batman’s Shortcomings Jason Todd, a street brawler with little patience for memorizing complex fighting techniques, tended to be a wild card. In contrast, Dick Grayson often improvised in combat situations, thanks to his background as a circus acrobat. While initially not as athletic as the Robins who had come before him, Tim was depicted as a quick tactician who always had his mentor’s back in a consistent fashion. In the classic 1989 story arc that introduced Tim, “A Lonely Place of Dying,” the third Boy Wonder was established as a wunderkind who figured out Batman’s secret identity on his own and was adamant that the Dark Knight needed a sidekick to temper his obsession with fighting crime. Out of all the Robins, Tim Drake was the only one who actively sought out the chance to be Batman’s sidekick, which explains Bruce’s ease at fighting alongside him. RELATED: Batman Just Told One of His Robins What They Always Wanted to Hear

“The old moves come back,” Batman thinks as the pair charge at Failsafe. The following article contains spoilers from Batman#130, on sale now.īatman #130 sees Bruce Wayne going up against Failsafe in the snowy Arctic, with Tim Drake serving as his devoted teammate to the very end.ĭuring their fight against the near-indestructible robot, which has easily defeated Superman on two separate occasions, Batman muses on how his teamwork with Tim was always the best out of all of the Robins.
