I don't care if he has a book or space instead of my fav, everyone has his moment and it's right.
I love Dick, Babs, Tim, Steph, Helena, Cass and quite the entire Batfamily cause everyone is a legacy character who showed respect for characters before them.
Their introduction and relationships with predecessors were generously explored and managed.
Duke (or better Snyder) didn't, that's the real problem.
Damian, is a more complex and different argument that should deserve a thread aside.
Duke is a useless addition to an already bloated Bat family.
My favorite characters of all time are Bruce Wayne and Dracula.
For me it is the later, we are told that he is the next coming ultimate badass and never shown why.
I think about 10-14 max would be mine - you can have one family and then supporters like the Fox's and BOP but the core Batfamily should be about half the size. Who goes depends on who you want in for example I could do without Jason or Damien but not Dick or Tim.
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According to Supersons he splits his time between the two. I'm not surprised folks are confused about the situation because the bat books esp King has been absolute rubbish inn clarifying things. We found out 1st from The signal's writer's twitter feed that Duke was no longer living at Wayne manor.
The batman book gives no indications that there was a 13year old with numerous pets living there nor did it hint at Duke moving out.
I read supersons and batman and the signal which is how I have more info
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For those saying that Duke doesn't bring anything to the Bat-family, I really think that you should give a try to B&S issue 1. it may not be your cup of tea or anything, really, but I think it does a wonderful job explaining what Duke's role in the Batbooks will be, and makes it interesting. Now, if really you don't like Duke, just go read it in the LCS or something, I think it'll be worth it.
I don't like Duke's relationship with the family in Rebirth. I tried Signal #1, and it was a bit too airy fairy in construction to really nail down a solid story. I'll read all three - making it a short mini is probably the best choice they could have made - but so far, I'm not convinced it's going to bring Duke back to the character I hoped for in Lark.
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Not too sure what you mean there. I read the first issue and while Duke himself was likable enough, he was completely generic. And if you're just talking about the daytime protector thing, that doesn't show what he adds either, as there's no explanation why he was the only one who could do this (mainly because there isn't one that would make sense).
I think they should reduce it, to the Robins, Batgirl and maybe Catwoman and/or Batwoman.
I kind of miss the time when there was actually some coordination between the Batbooks (ok that was probaly mostly Chuck Dixon wrote most of them), the writers should at least keep track of what happens with the characters in their main books, I'm ok if they ignore team books like Titans (unless the character doesn't have another book).
I also find it kind of wired that King writes him allready as a brother of the Robins, without any build up.
Unsurprisingly, I completely disagree that they should strip the family. Especially since they already tried that, and its was really sexist in execution, if not necessarily in motive.
King writes Duke as a brother to the family (though there's still distance there) because he also wrote Robin War. That's not actually my problem, though - King writing Duke in Rebirth is probably the closest I come to liking him currently. It's Snyder.
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