Finished reading Batman and Robin Eternal: Volume 1, writers Scott Snyder and James Tynion plot the sequel to the Batman Eternal series as they are joined by another team of writers telling a story centring around Batman's former sidekicks as they deal with a threat form one of Batman's old missions that has come back to haunt his former sidekicks. The book opens up in the with Batman moving a file form the Batcomputer to a USB as Dick Grayson, Robin sees him. The book then jumps to present day as current super spy of Spyral, Dick Grayson is back home in Gotham on a mission where he calls in an assist form Red Hood And Red Robin to deal with a technologically advance criminal that has caught his attention. After defeating the criminal Dick heads to the reopening of the Gotham State University Tower of Enlightenment only for the mission to go south incredibly fast as a mysterious villain called Mother has a group of kids and his Spyral partner of the mission Poppy Ashemore attack him. Once Dick begins to head back to the Batcave he is intercepted by a mysterious girl that has the USB that Batman had at the beginning of the book which contains Batman's confession and a list of names including those of the former Robins as a mysterious assassin is attacking Harper Row which Dick lucky sees. Once all of the young heroes meet back up in the Batcave and put their full attention on finding the person name Mother and what it she has to do with what Batman did several years ago while Dick was still Robin. Overall this was a great book as it tells a very Batman centric event that brings Batman's former sidekicks to the forefront that tests their relationships between one another as well as they relationship to Batman due to what comes to light in the duration of the book. Using Dick Grayson as the main point of view character is great as it allows for readers who have not been up to date with what is happening in the pages of the other Batman related books at the time due to Dick's absence. Additionally having Dick as the point of view character allows for some great timed flashbacks to Dicks time as Robin that help to further the story and give more information into what happened years prior. The art throughout the book is good as each style works extremely well for the different aspects of the story with some great bits of visual comedy and quite impressive moments that makes the book look great. While the changing art styles don't feel disjointed in the slightest and the styles are not radically different that it takes you out of the story. 8.5/10.
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