A brilliant synthesis of why the Dynamic Duo endures… The vast majority of time and energy I spend on 13th Dimension involves comics published for posterity by major and minor publishers. Makes sense, of course. But every so often I come across an “unofficial” project that’s so special, so exciting, it just begs to be printed. Case in point: Artist/writer Jacob Edgar’s series of Batman Adventures black-and-white strips. If DC ever decides it wants to give the world an all-ages Batman book that will appeal to Batman ’66 fans, Bronze Age fans, Batman: Year One fans, Batman ’89 fans, Batman: The Animated Series fans, Gotham Central fans, and younger fans — that’s a helluva range right there — they gotta give Edgar a try. Check these out: “I guess it was early 2019, I started putting out these one-panel gags of Batman and Robin,” Edgar — currently the artist on Dynamite’s Death to the Army of Darkness — explained. “They were my response in a way to a lot of the Batman and Robin media that had come out recently. Not so much in comics, but more so TV and movies. Not to disparage anyone else’s work — there are certainly a wide variety of Batman interpretations and all of those have their own merits and fans — but I think seeing what I didn’t respond to, tonally, really helped me solidify what my take would be. In terms of writing. “After a few of those gag illustrations I got the itch to write actual stories and really flesh out the ideas in my head,” Edgar added. “It’s a good problem to have, but I’ve had so many other projects I’ve been working on, some of them with actual publishers and deadlines, I didn’t have a ton of free time to spend in Gotham. So I came up with the idea of one-page strips, similar to old newspaper comics. Originally, my intent was to use any so-called ‘warm-up drawing’ to work on them. Instead of just sketching something, why not spend a little time here and there making a comic strip? Eventually it’s done, and I could get a little of my writing out in the world. I’ve been published as an artist but never as a writer, so this was a fun way to get some writing work...