And the truth is things at DC and Marvel have changed dramatically and are no longer really a place where I feel like I can do what I do well.' But after a point, the excitement of that wears off.

I got to play with incredible characters that I grew up reading. I got to collaborate with amazing artists. I loved my years working for DC and Marvel. 'Those will likely be my final two DC or work-for-hire books for the foreseeable future.

Though as we pointed out this morning, don't get comfortable seeing Lemire at DC Comics. Shame he's been dead for decades… On sale December 28, SWAMP THING GREEN HELL is a dark, dystopian tale for the ages. Against a creature like that, there can be no fighting back…unless you have a soldier who understands the enemy. And to do so, they've united their powers to summon an avatar-one of the most horrific monsters to ever stalk the surface of this forsaken planet. The Parliaments of the Green, the Red, and the Rot all agree: it's time to wipe the slate clean and start the cycle of life over again.

The last remnants of humanity cling to a mountaintop island lost in endless floodwater. With these facts in place, it is easy to assume that Bruce is also aware of Croc's presence in Grayson's past, and if it comes out that Batman is hiding this fact from Robin, it may only cause an even bigger rift between the two.One of the great artists of modern DC history, Doug Mahnke joins Lemire on this gory, gruesome monster mash where the fate of humanity rests in the hands of someone who isn't human at all.

While it is still early on in Batman and Robin's careers, readers have seen that Batman is already the keen detective that readers know him as. The way in which Batman finds Dick's costume designs and his willingness to spy on the heroes of the DC Universe show him as a hero who is always one step ahead and forever looking into his associates. How aware Batman is of this fact remains to be seen, but a large plot point of the title has been Croc's recognition of the young Robin as a figure from his past and his subsequent quest to track him down. A very interesting piece of information revealed within the pages of Robin & Batman is that Killer Croc, one of Batman's most fearsome foes, was a member of the same circus as the young Dick Grayson and his parents.

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