Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Massive and FUNNY crosspost.
Heh. The whole time I was reading it, when Tim was pulling his "But Batman NEEDS a Robin! Don't you SEE?!?" schtick, I was thinking "Man, you are trying to play mindgames with the most fucked-up mind in Gotham. You have problems. Hmmm....maybe you DO belong with the Bat...."
Wait, so Tim is about the same age that Dick was when he became Robin? And probably was that age when Dick was 13? But now Dick is in his 20s?
If you go by the standard continuity that Dick was eight when his parents died, (a) the Tim Drake origin story doesn't work, since I think there's got to be at least six years between Dick and Tim, and (b) you gotta wonder what the hell kind of parents the Flying Graysons were to let a kid that age do a quadruple-flip without a net.
Which I realize is not an answer to Sumi's question, but a response to the answers, which are roughly -- as I recall, Dick was eight when his parents died; he's maybe nine or ten tops when he becomes Robin, and he's now mid-to-late 20s.
The Dick's age continutity mess is just that.
The solution is not to think about it too hard, or you'll be wiping brains off the screen for HOURS.
In Robin: Year One, he's around 12/13. Middle school age.
OK, meta-comic question. What are the key points of the superhero form? I'm thinking:
What else? Does the love interest have to bounce off the secret identity (a la Tim Drake)? Should the origin story be revealed after the superhero's introduced or before?
How are you defining superpowers?
Tights -- I think tights are probably important, or at least a silly mask and one of your superpowers is keeping the mask on your face with no visible means of support (see Robin and Nightwing).
Also, Cataclysm arrived here and since I came home during a tornado warning -- well, it just all seems so right.
Tights are more popular than superpowers.
Well, superpowers don't look nearly so good stretched over those lovely superhero quads.