Scans_Daily

I agree with your take on this arc, though I haven't read this issue yet. The idea that Dick "ran away" from the past is just completely ridiculous. He was a kid (even in this arc where they're desperately trying to make him as old as possible because they're scared of Bruce seeming too old) who was orphaned and adopted by a billionaire. His parents' death was a traumatic experience Bruce helped him get through by being a father to him. Not only do I not like Haley's being a front for an assassin's league, I don't like it being filled with people like this. Their friend lost his parents and they see themselves as the real victims. They just suck.

I mean, you *could* do a character who was resentful of Dick's post-circus life and it could be interesting (a different--possibly more interesting--twist on Tommy Eliot). But this arc just made the whole circus rather annoying to me and Haley's should never annoy me.

What's funny is one of the things I've adored about Batman is how old school Batman & Robin it is with Bruce and Dick.