Some thoughts about Batman Vs. Robin #3

Can Batman face his children?

Damian has gained control over his siblings and now they're all hunting Bruce while Nezha's control is increasing to dangerous levels.

This just can't get out of the mixed bag category.

Mark Waid uses this new installment as an opportunity to write all the Robins and sadly, he doesn't get a particularly good job with that. The idea of Bruce's children coming after him is fine and they revealing some deep thoughts about the way he raised them could also be interesting but Waid decides to go for the easiest way possible or simply get the characters wrong. 

First of all, Tim complaining about why Bruce replaced him immediately with Damian makes a lot of sense... until you remember that didn't happen right away, in fact Tim remained as Bruce's Robin for the first part of Grant Morrison's Batman run and Damian only became Robin when Dick Grayson became Batman (although I did like how Bruce mentioned that Tim didn't really need him as a parent since he was doing fine on his own). Stephanie saying that Bruce didn't consider her truly a Robin and didn't even bother training her seems appropriate enough although I wouldn't be surprised if this is not completely right. Once that Jason appears though, things go completely wrong since he goes for the usual "You never cared about me! You let me die!" which is something that we have gone over and over over the years that is just extremely tiring and I'm sure most people don't want to hear more of it. Finally, Dick comes with a supposed "resentment" against Bruce that since he was a showman he never wanted to put on a mask... when he was the one who choose to become a Robin in the first place and always liked his work as a masked hero, seriously this might be one of the worst takes on Dick Grayson in a while.

About the plot, is fine. Waid continues to implement supernatural characters and elements of the DCU clearly building-up to his upcoming event and he gets the job done in that regard. I also enjoyed how he handled the return of Alfred here, pretty interesting result overall.

Mahmud Asrar's artwork is still amazing with beautiful and expressive characters along with precise storytelling.

Yeah, not digging this and I'm not sure it can't get any better. Worst of all is that the main problem is not that Waid didn't make his research about the continuity here since he references constantly, is just that he doesn't care and decides to do with these characters whatever he wants which I think is worse.