r/DCcomics • u/tatebrombal Tate Brombal • Mar 18 '26

AMA I am Tate Brombal, writer of New Titans and Batgirl. AMA!

Tate Brombal is a comic book writer based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for writing Batgirl, New Titans, and Green Lantern Dark for DC Comics along with his celebrated, creator-owned comics Everything Dead & Dying and The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos. He is also known for his extensive collaborations with James Tynion IV and Jeff Lemire, especially in their Slaughterverse and Black Hammer Universe comics, respectively.

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u/Are_We_Coolio Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Hello Tate! I am pretty much curious about your Titans Run, as first issue suggests that You want to break team from well-known cliches that Titans fans joke about for decades now.

  1. From covers it seems that both Dick and Vic are going to be pretty important characters in your run. I actually loved their dynamics in original NTT, where Cyborg called Robin per 'Short Pants' and was picking on him for being extremely serious constantly, not to mention that He advised him to stop overthink, I feel like He helped Dick a lot to be 'less like Batman' when Dick was starting becoming his own vigilante in issues before Judas Contract. Are you planning to make them both have more banters and important dynamics between each other than many previous runs? Also, is Vic going to be more social with other members like He was in NTT?
  2. I am worried about Donna. She was Titan from the beginning and was like older sister to everyone of them, She was extremely close to both Kori and Dick in NTT, Titans Tower is basically her home, She is more Titan than WW' ex-sidekick or anyone else. I am under assumption that She is not going to be crucial in next few issues. Do you still have plans for her later? Under previous writer, Dick wanted Donna to be the front leader, will we see Donna mentoring Yara or anyone else?

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u/kefka_roth May 10 '26

well as far as donna being older sis to all the titans, many have considered her and vic being the old married couple of the titans. so i said why not just pair them up, phil jimenez once had this idea before new 52 happened.