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The new Webtoon/DC webcomic, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, garnered praise on social media for not white-washing Damian Wayne.
Damian Wayne’s complexion won praise from readers of the new Batman: Wayne Family Adventures comic, the first of several planned projects between DC and Webtoon.
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures shows a slice-of-life look at the Bat-Family when they aren’t fighting crime or defeating Gotham’s rogues. Among the Bat-Family members present and accounted for are Batman, Alfred, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Time Drake, Damian Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown and Duke Thomas. Of these characters, Damian looked the most different, sporting a skin tone several shades darker than his usual appearance in mainstream DC books.
After the release of the Webtoon’s first six chapters on Sept. 8, a number of social media users praised the comic for “not whitewashing” the latest Boy Wonder, who is the son of Batman and Talia al Ghul — daughter of the so-called immortal “Demon” ecoterrorist Ra’s al Ghul.
Damian, Talia and Ra’s all have varying degrees of Middle Eastern ancestry. In the 1992 one-shot Batman: Birth of the Demon, writer Denny O’Neil, who co-created Talia with artist Bob Brown, specified that the Daughter of the Demon’s mother, Melisande, had been “of mixed Chinese and Arab ancestry.”
Despite his mother’s heritage, Damian Wayne — one of the few mixed-race members of the Bat-Family — has typically been depicted with the same skin tone as the Robins who came before him since his debut in 2006’s Batman #655. Exceptions to this include the 2016 series Robin: Son of Batman, where artist Patrick Gleason and colorist Tom Napolitano gave Damian a noticeably olive complexion.
While his appearance might be slightly different, the Damian presented in Batman: Wayne Family Adventures retains all of the snarky wit as his mainstream version and tricked Duke Thomas into thinking that the Batcave’s famous dinosaur was booby-trapped in Episode 1. In Episode 2 of the series, Damian showed his hyper-competitive side, battling the other members of his Bat-Family to a standoff over the last cookie on the dinner table.
The partnership between DC and Webtoon, announced in August, will bring several comics utilizing DC characters to the mobile storytelling app, which possesses an extensive international readership of over 72 million active users on average. The series are designed to be standalone and appeal to new audiences, and the experiment seems to be paying off; one day after Batman: Wayne Family Adventures launched on the platform, the comic had already aggregated over 290,000 followers.
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