I don’t think it has time to do something interesting either, since it has to focus on two characters. Exactly what you might expect if you imagined what Tim or Jason might have a nightmare about. They feel very standard and out of the box.
No real rebuttal from either character is given, nor is it claiming to showcase a new element in these nightmares. The story doesn’t seem to have anything to say about these events either. For Tim, he’s stuck reliving the day his dad is murdered by Captain Boomerang, while Jason’s nightmare is even less a surprise: he’s facing off against a twisted Red Hood/Joker who is trying his best to recreate Jason’s murder. In fact, you could easily guess what parts of their lives they’re reliving. The nightmares it chooses to put both Robins in are pretty standard if you know the characters. And the individual nightmares aren’t really anything to write home about either. The story doesn’t try to bother telling an interesting shared nightmare, instead just focusing on the two individually. Almost the exact moment they are together and realize it’s a dream, they’re dragged apart. For a shared nightmare, they spend so little of the narrative together, or even bothering to try and be a team. What’s equally disappointing, is that the book promises we’ll have the Robins together, and even maybe fighting each other (not that I wanted that), but that doesn’t really happen either. In fact, it ends letting readers know that things will be concluded…at some point. It’s over almost before it begins, feeling much like set up instead of an actual story it’s telling. However, there’s almost no real substance to this book. It’s fine, it’s not poorly written and the art is well done, with some scenes that really shine. I’m not sure what I was really expecting to get out of this issue. In this dream, at least they have each other…well kind of. Knight Terrors: Robin features Tim Drake and Jason Todd as they –like the rest of the world– have been thrust into their worst nightmares.
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