A note-perfect ending to the series. Tim Drake: Robin goes out on a high with a fist-bumping injection of hope and hype for the future of one of DC's best and brightest Robins. I'm going to miss this series but I'm so grateful for the last ten months of excellent storytelling. Read Full Review

Overall, this series gets some things very rightthe emotions in this series are genuine, and it leaves Tim in a very good place. However, it also definitely feels rushed towards the end, with only a few pages to wrap things up after the main plot. Tim definitely deserved a longer run, just like the Batgirls. Read Full Review

The series makes its way to a smart and largely satisfying ending that completes a very strong overall plot structure by Fitzmartin. While her dialogue is also quite strong, it DOES lack a bit of personality to illuminate the darkness. Fitzmartins adventure is more than engaging enough to overcome a slight lack of personality on the part of the dialogue. And Cizmesijas art has a straightforward elegance that makes for a really appealing visual presentation of an enjoyable story. The screenwriter/comic book writer has had a warm relationship with Robin in the recent past. Its nice to see that continue. Read Full Review

Although the last issue didn't allow the story to develop fully and had some artistic choices that were questionable, it's definitely an issue that helps round out the story of Tim Drake and his love of his family. Read Full Review

I would have liked to see more plot development and less focus on multiple character interactions. In general, the story did a decent job of emotionally connecting me to Tim Drake, and I would like to see more of his story in the future. Read Full Review

Overall this is a good issue, but I have a real problem with Batwoman's depiction here. She is a person and a fighter in her own right; she is not a plot device for showing the strength of Robin. He does not need it, and it is belittling to both characters to do it. Read Full Review

Hopefully Tim gets another shot soon, with a set-up for success. Even if not, I'm glad we got this for the better part of a year. Read Full Review

Tim Drake: Robin #10 feels like we're watching a trailer for the issue with all the important beats to the story, but without the nuances that really qualify them. The rush to tie up loose ends was inevitable, given the sudden cancellation, so it's with a heavy heart that we wave goodbye to Tim Drake's solo title. Read Full Review

Overall, though, Fitzmartin brings the first half of the series together with the last and ties most things up well and that's an accomplishment. Read Full Review

An incredibly underwhelming ending with lots of visual flourish for little narrative backbone. The result is a finale that bends over backwards to make you feel satisfied by the mess of a story we've gotten here. Tim Drake: Robin has always been problematic but I do think it's a shame when writers like Fitzmartin aren't given at least the chance to make things better. I've appreciated some of her standalone stories in anthologies so I think the biggest weaknesses (apart from the pinkwashing) were always the amount of characters she tried to juggle and the length of the stories. Standalone one or two issue stories surrounding maybe three to four characters at most could allow her to really work on the many minor problems present in her writing. Score: 3/10 Read Full Review

And......it's over! Thank God. This issue is another in the long line of failures from Fitzmartin. She takes great pains to express to us how great a detective Tim is in this series and yet she allows him to be a buffoon who can't use common enough sense to not jump on a boat in broad daylight in front of God and everyone and basically expose his identity to the world. She also has the brilliant idea to have him be dumb enough to leave out his costume out so another special needs marina doofus can see it and assume Tim is sleeping with Robin. All of this is brought back around in this issue just to inform Bernard chaos monsters have been around recently and alert him that Tim could be in trouble. She did all that just to progress the plot when it wasn't needed and made our main man Tim look like a dumbass. This is the level of stupidity Meghan Fitzmartin brings to comics. We are also to believe Bernard can do a shadow puppet show with a flashlight to signal Batman and inform him Robin is in danger. Tim seems like an amateur again when he embraces his fake father even knowing it's a hallucination. The chaos/order lines are given to seem deep but only come across as asinine just as all Tim's best fwends bweak in to save him. Awwwwww. Barf.

This series has been polarizing to say the least. Many people were determined to hate it just because of the bi thing and many were determined to love it just because of that very thing. For the rest of us it was just about wanting to read a Tim Drake comic. Was it ok to turn Tim bi? That's up to you. I say it's fine as some people change in life and come to new realizations about their sexuality. Was it done well? HELL NO, and I think that is the main problem people who fall into the first category had, even if they didn't realize it; I understand identity politics can be tedious these days as well. Of course a few were just dicks. I also think if you fall into the second category you have to admit this series was a weak comic book on many, many levels and if you really don't understand why people hated this book in spite of the sexual thing then maybe your not as smart as you think you are. For the rest of us in the last category, love it or hate it (I'm firmly in the hate it camp) the series is over and we can move on. That's it, nuff said. more

As this series wraps up, this is just a review of the entire thing as I refuse to go through them all and write why each issue is poorly written.

1) The art of the series, all aweful. Rossmo is a terrible choice for 1 issue let alone more. Their art style of totally inappropriate and that alone ruins the story. That art style should be used more for a dream-scape/drug trip like story. Maybe a Sandman style story.... hmmm...

2) The story has no direction, no real plot, no real theme. Fitzmartin has no direction and no clue what they are writing. Robin living at the docks and gives terrible tactical advice to bystandards. Poor writing all around.

3) No faith to the stuff that came before it. This truly appeals to no one.

Do not waste your money and time on this series. If you love Robin, dont read this, dont collect this. If you hate Robin, dont read this, it probably wouldnt even bring you joy. It helps no one. more

The final failure by Meghan Fitzmartin on Robin is here. Does DC have a charity program for writers? Is that how such a writer is hired time and again despite constant fan backlash? When she gets her own series she gets torn apart in the reader reviews. Even the comic book sites can't always suck up to DC when it comes to her. DC can't hide her lack of talent this way or gouge extra money out of readers like they do when they stick her in Urban Legends or some such book. Hopefully she will slowly disappear like Tee Franklin and Vita Ayala. I'm all for giving people a shot but I think Fitzmartin has blown hers.

An ending to a series that should of on paper been a very long run. DC has no one to blame but themselves for their own failings. When you can't get more than 10 issues due to low sales for an established character that had a previous run of 183 issues the problem isn't the chracter it's the writer.

Here we are, the final issue.

To start, yes, the ending felt rushed. However, I don't think that's something anyone on the team can be blamed for given the way this was abruptly canceled mid-arc. In that situation, you do what you can to create some sort of ending place, which means there are a lot of loose strings left unattended to. Could this have benefitted from a few extra pages at the bare minimum to achieve a better stick on the landing? Yes, but that's unlikely something this team was given.

I do think the art suffered a little more in this issue compared to the previous ones. Not quite as up to par with what I've seen from Cizmesija, both in this series and in the Azrael series. That may also be the result of a shift in the story due to its ending and any potential rush to finish things for it. Overall, though, I still enjoy Cizmesija's work, and I thought the coloring continued to be fantastic in this.

The writing, however, remains the weakest part of this series. This idea of Tim being "all woe is me" is something that was almost comical in its statement because this whole series has been nothing but Tim lamenting his various lots in life, in many cases in direct contradiction to previous interactions and thoughts he has had within the series itself. He doesn't even seem to be consistent in his own self-pity at this point.

As I look back on this series, what I see is an attempt to craft another avenue for Tim using similar plot beats to Red Robin but failing spectacularly to deliver the depth and progression that series had already achieved. I don't think there's anything wrong in taking that approach, in looking for a new way forward for a character who has truly needed to move into new territory for himself, but you need to deliver on that front, especially if you are walking down already trodden paths. TDR has failed issue after issue to show us anything worth following. more