Batman: White Knight Presents: Red Hood #1

Batman: White Knight Presents: Red Hood

by Sean Gordon Murphy, Clay McCormack, Dave Stewart (Cover Art)

The world of White Knight continues to expand in this exciting new miniseries! With things heating up in Neo-Gotham, Jason Todd revisits his post-Robin past to find the one ally he believes will help him turn the tide in the battle against Derek Powers. “Bruce Wayne is Batman.” Four words that saved Jason’s life and destroyed his future forever. Banished by his mentor and damaged by The Joker, the former Robin is left to become something different, something stronger, a relentless force for justice in the city…Red Hood! With nobody to answer to, he walks the dangerous line between hero and villain. That is until he meets Gan, a local girl from East Backport who needs his help to save her neighborhood from a super-criminal terrorizing its citizens. And she’s willing to fight alongside him, whatever it takes!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Batman, Graphic Novels

41 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 2, 2022

About the author

After breaking into the industry at a young age, Sean Gordon Murphy made a name for himself in the world of indie comics before joining up with DC. In his tenure, he has worked on such titles as Batman/Scarecrow: Year One, Teen Titans, Hellblazer, Joe The Barbarian, and the critically acclaimed miniseries American Vampire: Survival Of The Fittest and The Wake with Scott Snyder. Murphy also wrote and illustrated the original graphic novel Offroad and the popular miniseries Punk Rock Jesus.

Reviews

[Burton Olivier · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun take on Jason and I like Gan.

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cool little spin on Jason. Basically he's training a girl who wants to be the next robin. It's fun, little cute, but I dunno if it's super important when it comes to the mythology of Batman White Knight universe.

[jude · Rating 4 out of 5]

Batman White Knight: Presents puts Jason in a mentor role. It takes on this grumpy mentor / overenthusiastic student dynamic that I really enjoyed reading about. It reminded me of Peter and Miles from Into the Spider-verse with the way they both behaved. This was a fun and quick read. I can’t wait for the next issue.

[Edward Covington · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy how this is a totally different take on things. I don't have much to say about the White Knight universe, honestly at this moment beyond: It's just something else. There's a lot going on but I feel like it shows a lot of love and detail and craftmanship and worldbuilding that I do appreciate and respect.

[Kastie Pavlik · Rating 4 out of 5]

With Murphy's art and storytelling, I couldn't bring myself to give it 3 stars. It's a decent enough story that builds Jason's origin in this universe, but it doesn't tie in to the ongoing series. I thought, given the way Beyond the White Knight just dropped Jason from the story, that we'd get his behind the scenes activities from there. The potential exists to get there in the next issue, but with this shaping up to be a mentor-type tale, I only expect it to show us what influenced Jason to go into the role he did at Arkham.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 3 out of 5]

En la gran (pero lógica) expansión del Batverso creado por Sean Murphy, uno de los grandes añadidos y reinvenciones resulta todo lo relacionado con su Jason Todd. Con un simple cambio (que realmente fue un error del propio Sean), este personaje en este universo cambiar realmente bastante (además de ser el mayor cúmulo de traumas y conflictos personales de este Batman). Jason fue el 1º Robin. Jason sufrió a manos del Joker, pero no murió... Esto ha supuesto un interesante borrón y cuenta nueva que hemos vislumbrado desde el final de Curse of the White Knight con su reencuentro con Bruce Wayne tras entrar en prisión. Esta miniserie, que a principio pensaba que ocurriría a la par que los sucesos de Beyond (o por lo menos, poco tiempo antes con la nueva y total era futurista de Gotham City), nos lleva al regreso de Jason a Gotham en un perfil de cuasi vagabundo. Sus pasos lo llevarán a conocer a una Robin de barrio, cuyas pequeñas heroicidades la están llevando a terreno peligroso por estar rondando a un supervillano. Jason querrá escapar totalmente de la sombra de su mentor, convirtiéndose en el de la joven Gan.

Si bien siempre es una pena no tener más muestras del estilo visual de Murphy, todos los artistas con los que se asocian realmente aportan al Whiteverso. Siendo el caso de Simone Di Meo el de dotar a esta historia de un estilo y vibra más juvenil y refrescante. Quizás donde tenga más problema es en el guion desde el punto de vista estructural de la misma propuesta. Pues sí que creo que acabará empalmando con lo que sucede en Beyond, pero lo que proponen de una historia de iniciación de nuevo y particular Dúo Dinámico queda totalmente precipitado (solo resta otro número). Lo que duele viendo la gran química e interacciones que vemos con Jason y Gann en estas pocas páginas.

[Reiz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Awww this was sweet🥹 I don’t think I read anything that focused on Todd before.
Will I continue cheating by marking issues to get to my reading goal? Probably. Will I do it next year too? 😱😱😱 you accuse ME of cheating in my future goodreads challenge?!😱 yeah I’ll probably do it if I had to. Unless I make it 15 books🤔

[Sofi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Haven’t read the rest of the White Knight series, so I’m lacking some context, but I enjoyed this fresh take on Jason Todd’s storyline. Looking forward to seeing where it goes and getting to know Gan as a character.

[Mads · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Gan!! We stan a friendly neighborhood Robin!
Considering Jason’s place as the bulkiest Robin, he’s probably the best-suited to mentoring a former rugby player. Excited for book two!

[Aprajita Tyagi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the classic Redhood of course, but i really enjoyed the art and this sort of "redemption" themed story line.

[Ision · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cried

[David Cassady · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Jason but his character is all over the place. He’s also very willing to just give out Batman’s secrets to random people

[Eric]

Red Hood and Gan?

I was expecting Red Hood. What I got was a re-imagined origin story, which is not bad at all. And Jason Todd training a wannabe Robin. I hope issue two pays off.

[Adriana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the art and the changes made to the character. It feels fitting for the world created in the White Knight universe.

[MR P · Rating 4 out of 5]

"That hair doesn't make you more aerodynamic, you know. It just makes you look like a stupid dummy.

Boom -- Got Him."

[Amir Saran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jason being a mentor is the wholesome content I needed

[Centli Garcés Buendia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Red Hood y una Robin con formación previa en rugby, estoy dentro.

[brianna · Rating 5 out of 5]

i like how nightwing appeared just to get roasted

[Paxton Holley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here’s where we expand on the backstory of Jason Todd in the Murphyverse. Jason/Red Hood is probably my favorite Bat Family character, so I was pretty excited to read this, especially after all the hints they dropped about him in the main White Knight titles.

We learn what happened between him and the Joker and what he’s doing now. He takes on the training of a wannabe Robin, a girl named Gan, who is awesome, and they prepare to take on the super villain Shriek.