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Red Hood and the Outlaws: The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1
Jason Todd, a failed Robin brought back from the dead. Roy Harper, an expert marksman fallen from grace. Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran, an amnesiac alien powerhouse. Separately, these three wayward young heroes may be lost and abandoned, but together they can become something greater than the sum of their broken parts--and maybe the heroes the world needs.
As the Red Hood, Arsenal and Starfire, this makeshift team known as the Outlaws will take on the DC Universe's strangest threats, from the mystical menace of the Untitled to a raging interstellar war to the machinations of Ra's al Ghul. But when The Joker launches his master plan against Batman's friends and family, Red Hood will find himself summoned back to the painful past in Gotham he left behind...and what they find there will change the Outlaws forever!
Red Hood and the The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the first adventures of the hard-luck super-team by writers Scott Lobdell and James Tynion IV and artists Kenneth Rocafort, Julius Gopez and Timothy Green II. The omnibus includes Red Hood and The Outlaws #0-27, Teen Titans #16, Batman #17 and R ed Hood and the Outlaws Annual #1, including the blockbuster "Death of the Family" crossover.
As the Red Hood, Arsenal and Starfire, this makeshift team known as the Outlaws will take on the DC Universe's strangest threats, from the mystical menace of the Untitled to a raging interstellar war to the machinations of Ra's al Ghul. But when The Joker launches his master plan against Batman's friends and family, Red Hood will find himself summoned back to the painful past in Gotham he left behind...and what they find there will change the Outlaws forever!
Red Hood and the The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the first adventures of the hard-luck super-team by writers Scott Lobdell and James Tynion IV and artists Kenneth Rocafort, Julius Gopez and Timothy Green II. The omnibus includes Red Hood and The Outlaws #0-27, Teen Titans #16, Batman #17 and R ed Hood and the Outlaws Annual #1, including the blockbuster "Death of the Family" crossover.
736 pages, Hardcover
Published October 16, 2018
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Scott Lobdell
1,619 books230 followersScott Lobdell (born 1960) is an American comic book writer.
He is mostly known for his work throughout the 1990s on Marvel Comics' X-Men-related titles specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X. Generation X focused on a number of young mutant students who attempted to become superheroes in their own right at a separate school with the guidance of veteran X-related characters Banshee and Emma Frost. He also had writing stints on Marvel's Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, and The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix mini-series with artist Gene Ha. He wrote the script to Stan Lee's Mosaic and an upcoming film from POW Entertainment featuring Ringo Starr. He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics (from Jim Lee's WildStorm) crossover mini-series WildC.A.T.s/X-Men.
He is mostly known for his work throughout the 1990s on Marvel Comics' X-Men-related titles specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X. Generation X focused on a number of young mutant students who attempted to become superheroes in their own right at a separate school with the guidance of veteran X-related characters Banshee and Emma Frost. He also had writing stints on Marvel's Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, and The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix mini-series with artist Gene Ha. He wrote the script to Stan Lee's Mosaic and an upcoming film from POW Entertainment featuring Ringo Starr. He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics (from Jim Lee's WildStorm) crossover mini-series WildC.A.T.s/X-Men.
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September 7, 2019
Being honest, I picked this up because I wanted to read a very specific page, Todd's most cherished memory. And that little bit of story was everything I wanted it to be. The rest of it...... a bit complicated to sum up in a quick review. Not my favorite style of Starfire. She is simplified down into a one-dimensional sex object with a punch. Lacking all the depth that we have seen from her in a other stories. And Roy, taking a very complex character story and using more as a punchline. Its feels a little cheap. As for Todd himself, he doesn't really seem to fit with this team. This team doesn't really seem to fit together. More together because things keep happening and I guess since I was here when it started I'll be here to finish it. I adore Jason as character and I love him getting his own storylines, not just as Batman offshoots. But I don't really feel like a lot of the New 52 line worked for him. Still s good read if you like Todd and/or DC.
October 6, 2025
This book has been critically panned by critics and audiences alike. I do understand the reasons why, but in my humble opinion, there are a lot of things that I do like about the new 52 Red hood and the Outlaws run. I will highlight it in detail down below.
The run does start off quite slow, and the first few issues do take Starfire's character into consideration. I was even offended by how they seem to portray such a great character as one dimensional but after the first few issues, the comic run starts to pick up. Jason has to track down the Untitled, a race of metahumans who are dangerous to the world. You dive down into Jason Todd's past and how he has moved on from the pain of the Joker killing him. I don't want to spoil too much of the story, but it does dive heavy into Jason Todd's past and his ambivalent relationship with the Batfamily. His two allies, Starfire and Roy Harper, do have their own character arcs to fulfill. Roy Harper is a struggling drug addict who was cast out of the superhero club and Starfire is a alien lost in foreign world. This unlikely team of outlaws faces numerous threats besides the untitled, and there is even a huge side story in this volume that deals with the joker and the Batfamily.
If you are looking for action and adventure, this completion of the Red Hood comics is for you, and like I said, I do think that after the first 4 issues, it does pick up quite a bit with different villains and challenges that the outlaws have to face. I also think that this run does add a lot of depth to Jason Todd's character, Roy's character and Starfire's character. There are also cameos of other superhero's that I don't want to spoil too much. The art is beautiful, and the pacing is quite fast paced. Jason does annoy me at times with his lack of care bad-boy attitude, but he does show a remarkable amount of depth.
My biggest complaint is of course the beginning. It does start off quite slow and I don't like how Starfire was first portrayed but it does get better as the story goes on. I'd recommend this volume too, for anyone who is interested in these characters and is a fan of the rebirth Jason Todd, this story does lead up to rebirth. It also provides a lot of good character development for Roy Harper and Starfire for their later appearances. Jason Todd is also one of my favorite characters, so being able to see how he develops is interesting. I would also recommend this for anyone who is a fan of batman lore and side characters, as well as DC comics in general. Another demographic would be action/adventure fans looking for a great graphic novel to read. This volume has it all!
The run does start off quite slow, and the first few issues do take Starfire's character into consideration. I was even offended by how they seem to portray such a great character as one dimensional but after the first few issues, the comic run starts to pick up. Jason has to track down the Untitled, a race of metahumans who are dangerous to the world. You dive down into Jason Todd's past and how he has moved on from the pain of the Joker killing him. I don't want to spoil too much of the story, but it does dive heavy into Jason Todd's past and his ambivalent relationship with the Batfamily. His two allies, Starfire and Roy Harper, do have their own character arcs to fulfill. Roy Harper is a struggling drug addict who was cast out of the superhero club and Starfire is a alien lost in foreign world. This unlikely team of outlaws faces numerous threats besides the untitled, and there is even a huge side story in this volume that deals with the joker and the Batfamily.
If you are looking for action and adventure, this completion of the Red Hood comics is for you, and like I said, I do think that after the first 4 issues, it does pick up quite a bit with different villains and challenges that the outlaws have to face. I also think that this run does add a lot of depth to Jason Todd's character, Roy's character and Starfire's character. There are also cameos of other superhero's that I don't want to spoil too much. The art is beautiful, and the pacing is quite fast paced. Jason does annoy me at times with his lack of care bad-boy attitude, but he does show a remarkable amount of depth.
My biggest complaint is of course the beginning. It does start off quite slow and I don't like how Starfire was first portrayed but it does get better as the story goes on. I'd recommend this volume too, for anyone who is interested in these characters and is a fan of the rebirth Jason Todd, this story does lead up to rebirth. It also provides a lot of good character development for Roy Harper and Starfire for their later appearances. Jason Todd is also one of my favorite characters, so being able to see how he develops is interesting. I would also recommend this for anyone who is a fan of batman lore and side characters, as well as DC comics in general. Another demographic would be action/adventure fans looking for a great graphic novel to read. This volume has it all!
August 23, 2025
This is the longest Comic Omnibus and more pages of DC than I have ever read.
I had seen the Red Hood cartoon movie where he is killed an reanimated and that is a great primer for that.
This takes place a few years later and has Red Hood/Jason teaming up with Arsenal/Roy and Starfire/Koriand'r and learning how to be a functional person and part of a team that is trying to do good, but not be good-little-two-shoes.
There are really good sections and personal moments between the team and how much they quickly come to care about each other and it is very believable.
Each character also has an arc that is dedicated to them and it really switches the pacing and also gives us insight into the character and what makes them flawed, but also it helps them to be more heroic in my eyes.
Jason's is about the Joker kidnapping all of the bat family and how they are all tortured physically and psychologically by him and that they are all are damaged and need each other, but are also too damaged to properly help each other. Plus it implies that the Joker might be behind many major events of Jason's life.
Roy, I had never heard of so maybe learning that he built gear for the Green Arrow wasn't new, but I have a feeling his Alcoholism and Therapy was. Again the flaws and struggles are really what makes them people and more heroic than Mary Sues.
Kori's section has them going into space and having to save her people once again. It showed how she suffered as a slave and how it affects her still and how she actually feels about her people. Plus it was kick ass space adventure in a street level book.
As I wrote street level I then thought about the overarching story line about he balance and the 3 sides and how they work together and is Jason's connections to them and also they are at all out war to dominate the Earth. So I guess it is also hugely important, but also at times very small and personal.
The huge fights and spread are action packed, exciting and fun. Plus they get the crap kicked out of them, which is fun because if there is no challenge then what was the point.
Conversely the tender, smaller interpersonal moments are what bring the book and characters together and really make you care about them.
I started leery, not know much about the characters, but by the end I loved them and will happily read another omnibus about them.
I had seen the Red Hood cartoon movie where he is killed an reanimated and that is a great primer for that.
This takes place a few years later and has Red Hood/Jason teaming up with Arsenal/Roy and Starfire/Koriand'r and learning how to be a functional person and part of a team that is trying to do good, but not be good-little-two-shoes.
There are really good sections and personal moments between the team and how much they quickly come to care about each other and it is very believable.
Each character also has an arc that is dedicated to them and it really switches the pacing and also gives us insight into the character and what makes them flawed, but also it helps them to be more heroic in my eyes.
Jason's is about the Joker kidnapping all of the bat family and how they are all tortured physically and psychologically by him and that they are all are damaged and need each other, but are also too damaged to properly help each other. Plus it implies that the Joker might be behind many major events of Jason's life.
Roy, I had never heard of so maybe learning that he built gear for the Green Arrow wasn't new, but I have a feeling his Alcoholism and Therapy was. Again the flaws and struggles are really what makes them people and more heroic than Mary Sues.
Kori's section has them going into space and having to save her people once again. It showed how she suffered as a slave and how it affects her still and how she actually feels about her people. Plus it was kick ass space adventure in a street level book.
As I wrote street level I then thought about the overarching story line about he balance and the 3 sides and how they work together and is Jason's connections to them and also they are at all out war to dominate the Earth. So I guess it is also hugely important, but also at times very small and personal.
The huge fights and spread are action packed, exciting and fun. Plus they get the crap kicked out of them, which is fun because if there is no challenge then what was the point.
Conversely the tender, smaller interpersonal moments are what bring the book and characters together and really make you care about them.
I started leery, not know much about the characters, but by the end I loved them and will happily read another omnibus about them.
November 6, 2025
5/5🌟
I’ve been waiting to read this Omnibus for what feels like years. I finally got my hands on a physical copy once it was on sale for a reasonable price and I’m beyond glad that I did. Red Hood and the Outlaws: The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 provides several consecutive storylines filled with action, magic, banter and many flashbacks. Through this 700+ page omnibus, we learn a lot about Jason and who he is beyond being ‘the dead Robin’ or ‘a good soldier’. His morals in this specific run are made very clear especially by the end of the story, his decision making is more easily understood the more you read about him, most evidently shown in the Death of the Family storylines as well as later on in Shakedown. The characterization is good in terms of Jason and Roy, I’d say Kori’s behaviour was questionable, especially at the beginning of the book, but then again, I don’t know much about her aside from a little more than the basics. A specific example I loved was the panels between Jason and Damian, showing that Jason does care and respect the kid despite everything in the past between Jason and Bruce—he tries to say goodbye and console Damian after everything that happened with the Joker, and reminding Damian that he doesn’t have to sacrifice himself into filling the Robin role left for him “I know, you don’t think anyone can possibly understand what you are dealing with.” - “But me, Grayson, Tim? We’ve all been where you are now, Damian.”, these panels made me respect Jason more deeply, he might have needed to resurrect himself to say and get to this point, but he truly did his best to try to leave on good terms, and leave Damian feeling maybe just a bit more relieved. Overall I’d say this had many re-readable stories and I see myself returning to it, though, the art style isn’t very consistent in terms of the characters faces due to what I assume is mainly a change in the artists who worked on the issues at the time, primary example being on the iconic ‘chopped Jason’ panel that i didn’t exactly expect to find in this omnibus, I truly assumed it was from one of the newer runs. However, that being said, the artist who worked on ‘Last Dance. Last Chance…For Death’, Tyler Kirkham, did one of my favourite art pieces in this, the panels of Jason and Bruce were so stunning and so heartbreaking.
I’ve been waiting to read this Omnibus for what feels like years. I finally got my hands on a physical copy once it was on sale for a reasonable price and I’m beyond glad that I did. Red Hood and the Outlaws: The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 provides several consecutive storylines filled with action, magic, banter and many flashbacks. Through this 700+ page omnibus, we learn a lot about Jason and who he is beyond being ‘the dead Robin’ or ‘a good soldier’. His morals in this specific run are made very clear especially by the end of the story, his decision making is more easily understood the more you read about him, most evidently shown in the Death of the Family storylines as well as later on in Shakedown. The characterization is good in terms of Jason and Roy, I’d say Kori’s behaviour was questionable, especially at the beginning of the book, but then again, I don’t know much about her aside from a little more than the basics. A specific example I loved was the panels between Jason and Damian, showing that Jason does care and respect the kid despite everything in the past between Jason and Bruce—he tries to say goodbye and console Damian after everything that happened with the Joker, and reminding Damian that he doesn’t have to sacrifice himself into filling the Robin role left for him “I know, you don’t think anyone can possibly understand what you are dealing with.” - “But me, Grayson, Tim? We’ve all been where you are now, Damian.”, these panels made me respect Jason more deeply, he might have needed to resurrect himself to say and get to this point, but he truly did his best to try to leave on good terms, and leave Damian feeling maybe just a bit more relieved. Overall I’d say this had many re-readable stories and I see myself returning to it, though, the art style isn’t very consistent in terms of the characters faces due to what I assume is mainly a change in the artists who worked on the issues at the time, primary example being on the iconic ‘chopped Jason’ panel that i didn’t exactly expect to find in this omnibus, I truly assumed it was from one of the newer runs. However, that being said, the artist who worked on ‘Last Dance. Last Chance…For Death’, Tyler Kirkham, did one of my favourite art pieces in this, the panels of Jason and Bruce were so stunning and so heartbreaking.
February 11, 2024
This was just okay. Not as bad as I have heard from others and James Tynion jumps in and finishes this run which brings up the quality of the writing. While cool to see, the layouts for most of the issues make the stories difficult to read. I did not like the characterization of starefire or the arc in space. The highlights were the death of the family ties ins, the zero year tie in and the final arc.
March 26, 2021
I really just didn't care for this one at all.
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