Identity Crisis

[Swallowtail]

In the twenty plus years that Tim was Robin, how many times do you see Dick or Jason team up with Bruce compared to the twelve years that Damian has existed?

Outside of Devin Grayson's writing, prior to Damian, how many times did you see the family get together like they do now? Did you regularly see them getting together for movie night, portrait paintings, the weekly brunch, or just hanging out like we do now? To be fair, if you only read things with Tim in them and avoid books with Damian in them, you may have missed all of this.

Yeah, Chuck Dixon, Scott Beatty, Paul Dini, Anderson Gabranth, pre-Damian-as-Robin Morrison, Ed Brubaker...

Devin Greyson and Peter Tomasi hardly invented the concept of the Batfamily.

And the last time they had a family movie night was 2010. Not exactly a regular occurrence.

I like Damian just fine, but, come on, of course TimÂ’s popularity was hurt by His arrival. Tim was displaced from the role he was designed to play. If Duke had been successful in the way Damian was successful, if he had taken over as Robin and Damian had had to stay dead or change his name to Redbird to accommodate Duke, no doubt that would have hurt DamianÂ’s popularity too. What happened is that Duke lost the popularity contest and is now just about holding on as a supporting character in a team book.