The dynamics of the Bat-Family have always been a topic of interest—but being a parent can’t be harder than being Batman…right?!
Continuing the exciting Webtoons tale! Batman needs a break. But with new vigilante Duke Thomas living in Wayne Manor and an endless supply of adopted, fostered, and biological superhero children to manage, Bruce Wayne has his hands full.
CRC Payne is a freelance writer from Seattle, WA. Batman: Wayne Family Adventures is her first webcomic series. She spends most of her free time writing, reading, and drinking way too much tea.
Consistent fun that keeps delivering on lighthearted Batfamily content. More characters, more shenanigans, and more jokes, it continues to capture audiences with its fresh perspective and tone.
More of the same: if you've enjoyed previous volumes of the Bat-family having comedic adventures and emotional breakthroughs while hanging around Wayne Manor or helping each other in the field, you'll like this one.
Actually, this one may be just a half-step off from the previous volumes as there are a few more villain fights than usual, and maybe I'm getting a little too bored with the concept or the creator is starting to struggle to find new iterations of the feel-good formula. Still more good than blah though.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Episode 52. Assassin -- Episode 53. Online -- Episode 54. S'tel Ees a Cigam Wohs! -- Episode 55. Why We Fight (Part 1) -- Episode 56. Why We Fight (Part 2) -- Episode 57. Picture Day -- Episode 58. Clean Up -- Episode 59. Home Alone -- Episode 60. What Matters Most (Part 1) -- Episode 61. What Matters Most (Part 2) -- Episode 62. Live from New York -- Episode 63. Opposite Day -- Episode 64. The Choices We Make (Part 1) -- Episode 65. The Choices We Make (Part 2) -- Episode 66. No Doors Allowed -- Episode 67. Branching Out -- Episode 68. Thankful -- Episode 69. Hunted (Part 1) -- Episode 70. Hunted (Part 2) -- Episode 71. High Heels -- Preview: Red Hood: Outlaws Volume 1 by Patrick R. Young and Nico Bascuñán
Kind of surprised to see Bluebird and Huntress added to the already sprawling cast, but they were used well. Still almost entirely fluff, but that's what I'm here for.
The five stars is honestly mostly for nightwing-rabbit and the Zatanna of it all, but I continue to be utterly charmed by this series!!! The Tim and Damian bit was also a standout, BOYS!!!!
Totally worth it for that last story! I have so missed getting to see Stephanie and Damian laughing and bonding together! Her solo Batgirl series set up one of the most wonderful relationships Damian had and it just faded in the New 52 - Rebirth shuffle. It's nice CRC seemed to latch onto those relationships I really loved that got lost in the shuffle - Cass and Steph, Damian and Steph, Luke Fox and Azrael, Duke's existence, Harper's existence. There's some great stuff here!
This volume set out to remedy a relationship DC hasn't even tried to fix - Damian and Tim's. Tim Drake stans still hold a grudge against a 10 year old and a 10+ year old beef. Damian stans (like myself) genuinely just accepted that was a Batfam relationship that would probably never be fixed. While not DC canon, it's nice Payne made an attempt to sort of approach at truce between them. In between them bickering like actual siblings, there's no doubt I prefer their dynamic here 10x more than in DC's canon.
I really liked the story where Cass and Jason try to teach Duke about dramatic entrances. I liked the story where they all tried to make the holidays special for Alfred. Harper's story is sweet. I like how this series cares more about the characters of color in DC's universe than the canon comics do. Hello, we get Vixen and Grace Choi in this story!!! That was such a nice feature to get. Can this series influence canon more? I've been so happy with what this series is.
I had no idea this series existed until it came in at the library. It looked silly and cute so I figured I would give it a try. I was expecting more of a continuous story, but these 'issues' (or episodes, to use the term in the comic itself) are all essentially small one-shots. Everyone is a bit silly, some characters more than others, while still feeling at least a little connected to their canon personalities. Basically just a fluffy family dynamic, and holy heck the number of bat-people/new robins has proliferated since I stopped reading DC regularly. Keeping everyone straight outside the main 3 Robins was definitely hard for me. I don't know if I would recommend reading the whole thing straight through either; I enjoyed it but I almost didn't want to keep reading the series because it does get to be a bit repetitive after 25 'episodes' back to back. Definitely some gem stories/panels in each volume though.
This is such a wholesome read that shows the Bat family's dynamics in such a normal way. Individuals have their struggles, but the family helps each other get through them. It's so beautiful.
"Batman works alone" has got to be one of the biggest perpetual myths in all of casual pop culture. Heck, even the campy Adam West show has him constantly work with the Watson-to-his-Holmes Robin, so it SHOULD not have kept on perpetuating. So it's very refreshing to see some stories of the crime-fighting found family of Gotham show more & more sides of these various characters that have amassed themselves around the Dark Knight Detective.
What's very interesting is that despite being a shenanigan-based series, there are also some strips that focus a LOT on the respective members and how they relate to each other without a hint of Batman about. A particularly good one involve Tim Drake and Damian Wayne hashing out how they got over their beef with each other, unknowingly having had lived in each other's shadow. Also a pretty good one was Barbara Gordon doing a lot to entrap a criminal both as Oracle and the daughter of Jim Gordon. Probably my favorite lil bits of Batman life involve more characters from the DC universe, with Zatanna stopping a villain on stage with Bruce Wayne as the "volunteer from the audience," Poison Ivy teaching Spoiler how to take care of houseplants while watching over a recovering Harley Quinn, and Batman, despite being the best at almost everything, forgetting he was cooking an omelet because Superman called him to talk about a case, and thus nearly burning down his kitchen. Great stuff from creators that just GET the Bat-family characters.
muchas cosas que decir entre el capítulo de poison ivy y harley queen damian en tacones bárbara siendo genuinamente perfecta y sobretodo la charla entre tim y damian… amo a mi familia