Issue Description

 Issue #2 Starts off with Dick Grayson sitting on the steps in the Bat-Bunker looking defeated while Alfred asks him what happened.  We Flash back to the last scene of Batman and Robin from the first issue, with them gliding down towards GCPD.  Once they land they have a conversation with Gordon about it being a long time since they were seen together.  Mid conversation an officer gets a call from the desk downstairs that something is wrong.  Batman and Robin immediately head down the stairs, while an officer comments to Gordon about how they used to be taller and how Batman sounded different.  Gordon replies "Different, maybe...but familiar."  
 
Downstairs there is an apparent break out attempt as Batman and Robin work together for the first time.  Despite Batman's orders to stay with him Robin chases after a villain by himself.  Robin begins attacking the goon while Batman again states he needs Robin with him.  Batman subdues  numerous criminals as Gordon arrives with backup.  We then flash forward back to the Bunker where Alfred learns of the fatalities of the breakout and Dick states he knew one of them from his days with the Bludhaven PD.   
 
Flash back to the PD, where Robin has the one villain with a bucket on his head hitting it with a stick.  Gordon warns him to step away from the person, but not until Batman grabs his hand does he stop, but not without his complaints.  We then learn that Toad has died mysteriously in his cell while all this going on.  Back at the Bunker Dick tries telling Damian there are limits to which they can go to, and he brushes it off.  Dick warns him about how Gordon will hunt them if they go over the line.  Dick criticizes Damian's tactics and Damien criticizes Dick's portrayal of Batman.   

Damian tells Dick he doesn't respect him and throws the Robin symbol on the ground as he walks away.  Coming full circle we see how we got to this part of the story.  Dick asks Alfred if he was ever that much of a brat when he was Robin and Alfred reminds him that he had loving parents for years, while Damian has only had Talia and Assassins, far away from Bruce's influence.  Dick then comments how he believes Gordon and the cops don't think he's Batman.     
 
Alfred reminds Dick that his roots are show business and to think of his Batman not as a memorial but as a great role like Hamlet, to play it to your own personal strengths.  As Dick reclaims the mantle the show must go on.  Damien meanwhile has found a lead in a run-down Circus where he see's what appears to be a child in a cage warning him to look out behind him, it's too late however as he is surrounded and taken down with ease.   Professor Pyg makes his second appearance (cameo in batman #666) leaving Damian to become his prisoner    

Batman and Robin (2009)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

Batman and Robin

Starring: Dick Grayson as Batman and Damian Wayne as Robin.

Batman and Robin is an ongoing titled focused on the adventures of Batman (Dick Grayson) and Robin (Damian Wayne). The series commences in the aftermath of the events of Battle for the Cowl, in which Dick Grayson reluctantly takes the cape and cowl, and with it the duties of his former mentor, Batman. Batman and Robin serves as the lead title in the Bat-continuity during the period in which Bruce Wayne is trapped in time as a result of Darkseid’s Omega Effect (see Final Crisis).

Batman and Robin focuses on the intricacies of the newly-formed Dynamic Duo, with Dick Grayson establishing himself a new kind of Dark Knight drawing upon his outgoing personality and gymnastics background, and with the volatile and tempestuous Damian adapting to his new crime-fighting persona, following an upbringing within Ra's Al Ghul's League of Shadows.

The series innovates in the other ways, with the debut of a new, flying Batmobile and the first full storylines illuminating Morrison's additions to Gotham's rogue gallery, including the grotesque Professor Pyg and the killer known as the Flamingo.

For Post Flashpoint volume 2, refer to Batman and Robin.

This series is also being collected in deluxe hardcovers:

Vol. 1: Batman Reborn (#1-6)Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin (#7-12)Vol. 3: Batman and Robin Must Die! (#13-16, as well as Batman: The Return one shot)

As well in regular trade paperbacks:

Vol. 1: Batman Reborn (#1-6)Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin (#7-12)Vol. 3: Batman and Robin Must Die! (#13-16 and Batman: The Return)Vol. 4: Dark Knight vs. White Knight (#17-25)

Grant Morrison's run has also been collected in an absolute edition.

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