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Comics - Ongoning Series - Robin - Issue #178

ROBIN #178
COVER TAGLINE: The End Draws Near...
TITLE: Part 2: Life During Wartime
STORY ARC: Search for a Hero

RELEASE DATE: September, 2008
COVER DATE: November, 2008

WRITER: Fabian Nicieza
PENCILER(s): Freddie Williams II
INKER(s): Freddie Williams II
COLORS: Guy Major
LETTERS: Sal Cipriano
EDITOR(s): Mike Marts; Janelle Siegel
COVER: Freddie Williams II

PRICE: $2.99 U.S./$4.00 Canada

CHARACTERS: Robin (Tim Drake); Nightwing (Dick Grayson); Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Spoiler (Stephanie Brown); Ragman (Rory Regan); Red Robin; Detective Roman Cavallo; Detective Marcus Wise; Dublin (Dennis Finnegan); Martin Ives; Zoanne Wilkins; Donna Troy; Officer Jamie Harper; Jason Bard; The General (Ulysses Armstrong)

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PLOT:
Gang tensions continue to escalate when Sprang Bridge leader Ketchum is apparently killed by the Blackgaters. Robin finds himself at a delicate impasse realizing that while he cannot just let the gangs kill each other - stepping in could make things worse. But if he doesn't - who will?

When everyone's favorite crooked detectives Cavallo and Wise show up with news cameras to arrest Dublin (leader of the Blackgaters) for Ketchum's murder, something about it just sticks in Robin's craw.

Working alongside Harper, Ragman and Jason Bard, Robin uncovers the truth behind Ketchum's murder. Cavallo and Wise had forced Dublin to shoot Ketchum after Jason Todd's gang meeting. After some deliberation, Robin decides to turn the evidence over to the police to have Cavallo and Wise arrested. But sending two crooked cops to jail never goes cleanly and things threaten to blow up in their faces.

Later, while working to repair the trashed Bat-Computer, Tim asks Donna troy about Red Robin and wonders who this masked vigilante is - and what side he's on. With the computer partially up and running, Tim attempts to run a probability program on the potential for a gang war outbreak given the variables present. The results are less than encouraging and all signs seem to point to inevitable chaos.

Across town, Stephanie Brown is coming to that same conclusion. After acquiring the services of the newly matured General, she seeks some help for her "little Robin problem." Unfortunately there appears to be a slight conflict of interest and without warning Ulysses pulls out a gun and shoots at Spoiler.

SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING:
Batman: R.I.P.
Detective Comics #654 - First Appearance of the General

 

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