You didn’t think that was all they did during their first year together, did you? DC has announced Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos, a new 12-issue miniseries from the creative team of co-writer Mark Waid, co-writer/artist Chris Samnee, colorist Mat Lopes, and letterer Clayton Cowles. The series continues the adventures of Batman and Robin during the early days of their partnership as they face new threats, and as Robin meets some familiar foes for the first time.
Here’s how DC describes Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos:
Batman and Robin are back in action! The Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder have been hard at work cleaning up the streets of Gotham City, and their partnership has only gotten tighter. But when a gang of street kids starts causing chaos, Batman and Robin will need to get to the bottom of where these kids came from and who is in charge! Who is the hidden hand guiding these young mischief-makers?
The announcement of the new series comes less than a week after Samnee, Lopes, and Cowles all received Eisner nominations for their work on the first Batman & Robin: Year One series, which concluded its twelve-issue run in October of 2025.
In a statement announcing the new series, Waid and Samnee described working together on the project, and how Dynamic Duos grew organically out of collaborating on the first series:
“One of the great things about talking story with Chris is that we generally end up with way more than we can actually fit in the books—that’s how excited both of us get when we explore Batman and Robin’s early days,” said Mark Waid. “This is Chris’s dream job, and I could write younger Bruce and Dick forever. Hence Dynamic Duos—Bruce and Dick and Catwoman and a brand-new character who may or may not choose to be Selina Kyle’s sidekick.”
“Mark is 100 percent right,” added Chris Samnee. “Our first 12 issues of Year One felt like the exact book I’d been wanting to make since I was a kid. And to be able to make it with this amazing team really is like catching lightning in a bottle. Bouncing stuff around with Mark is always so much fun, and the voices for these characters are always so on point. Mat goes above and beyond with every single page of colors—always making my stuff look better than it deserves—and Clayton has done such a great job of integrating the lettering into the design of each panel and page—and has been so generous with letting me take all the fun SFX out of his hands. So instead of making plans for the next project or book (which is usually what I start trying to plan about halfway through a project), we just kept up the momentum and started getting the pitch together for what’s become Dynamic Duos and rolled right into this, straight after we wrapped Year One.”
Waid also noted how the arrival of a familiar villain will create some tension between our heroes:
“Whereas Year One was about Bruce and Dick learning to live together and work as a team, Dynamic Duos is about how Catwoman divides them,” continued Waid. “Dick’s still too young to understand why Batman doesn’t treat her like every other Gotham criminal, while Catwoman sees this little Robin punk as an obstacle to overcome if she wants to land her next big score…which might involve getting close to Batman! And chaos ensues.”
Along with a main cover by Samnee and Lopes, Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos #1 will sport variant covers by Dustin Nguyen, Marc Silvestri, Hayden Sherman, and Greg Capullo. Check out those, as well as more, uncolored preview pages by Samnee, below. Look for the first issue of the twelve-issue series to arrive in stores and digitally on Wednesday, August 12th, 2026.
