New Batman & Robin Sequel Confirmed, With Catwoman Set to Return

Batman and Robin are back, and this time, they've brought a purrfect member of Batman's lore along.

Catwoman will claw her way into a Batman and Robin: Year One sequel that will revisit the Dynamic Duo through an all-new adventure. Per an official press release from DC Comics, "DC today announced Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos, a new 12-issue monthly comic book series from the award-winning team of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, launching August 12, 2026. Following their acclaimed Batman & Robin: Year One, Waid and Samnee continue exploring the formative partnership between Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson that was introduced in Year One in a new story that blends heart, humor, and high-stakes capes-and-tights fun while charting new territory for the early Dynamic Duo."

The solicit excitedly explains what fans can expect from the iconic pair's return to comics side-by-side. "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?"

Waid and Samnee will co-write the series, reuniting the Eisner Award-winning team that initially brought Batman and Robin: Year One to life. DC Comics also mentioned that "the launch issue of Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos will also feature variant covers by Marc Silvestri, Dustin Nguyen, and Hayden Sherman, while Greg Capullo provides a Dark Knight Returns 40th anniversary variant cover."

There's another Dynamic Duo on the way from Matt Reeves and DC Studios, though this animated movie will focus on Dick Grayson and Jason Todd as the Robins. Moviegoers who are impatiently awaiting their next Batman and Robin team-up on the big screen will be treated to The Brave and the Bold, which will double as the DCU Batman debut.

What's Been Said About Batman and Robin: Year One - Dynamic Duos So Far?

The creative forces behind Batman and Robin: Year One — Dynamic Duos have expressed their excitement when returning to continue the story they once started. “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,” Mark Waid said. “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,” Chris Samnee added. “Our first twelve 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 then continued to add that “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... 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.”

Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos #1 releases on August 12.