Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, DC’s First Webtoon, Is a Delight

There’s not rather a lot that surprises me about Batman comics anymore, however I didn’t count on to see the previously useless, tortured soul/antihero Jason Todd lunge after a cookie. It’s solely one of many many pleasant scenes in DC Comics’ first collaboration with the Korean digital comics platform Webtoon, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures.

If you’re conversant in what makes Webtoons totally different from, say, the digital comics out there over at DC Universe Infinite, be happy to skip to the subsequent paragraph. The remainder of you: Webtoon’s fare is optimized to be learn on cell platforms, not common computer systems. This means the pages are all vertically designed, and easy—they’re often a single panel, with only some strains of dialogue, making it simple to see and skim on a small display.

Written by CRC Payne with stellar artwork from Rhett Bloom a.ok.a. StarBite (pun meant), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures doesn’t buck this pattern, however what makes it so particular is that it focuses on the Bat-Family far, way over the Adventures. The first three issues can be found now, and so they’re virtually slice-of-Bat-life tales: subject #1 options Duke Thomas (a.ok.a the Signal) shifting into Wayne Manor and getting a surly tour from Damian Wayne; #2 is fully a brawl between Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Duke, and Damian over who will get to eat the final of Alfred’s award-winning cookies; #3 is Barbara Gordon having brunch along with her dad whereas obliquely referring to her earlier evening attempting to wrangle/mom her Bat-comrades. It’s extremely healthful, humorous, and simply pleasant to learn, particularly when you’re bored with the brooding, messy Bat-family drama of the primary comics.

Wayne Family Adventures is just the primary of DC’s collaborations with Webtoons, which options hundreds of webcomics from publishers akin to Image, Legendary, and extra, and has an astounding 72 million month-to-month readers. It couldn’t be a extra auspicious begin for the partnership, but it surely’s additionally set a excessive bar for its later sequence to achieve. But if there’s going to be any panel as satisfying as Bruce Wayne leaving a post-it be aware on the Batmobile’s wheel reminding Damian he’s too younger to drive, I can’t wait to learn it.

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