Anyone else think that Tim's gotten the short end of the stick with the most recent re-launches? Dick's got a solo title, Jason's teaming up with Roy and getting plenty of exposure, and Damien has his own book. And Tim? He's lost in Titans, a directionless, rudderless sinking ship.Heck, he's easily the worst treated of all of the various and sundry Bat-Clan*
Didn't his solo title sell reasonably well? Was anyone done with him? I know I'm missing him, and I'm sure many others are as well.
Do you miss Tim? Would you like to see him back prowling Gotham's city streets or something similar perhaps in another city (I hear Hub City is underrepresented by super heroes currently)? Let your feelings be heard.
* Assuming you're not a female Bat-Clan member not named Barbara.
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Back when I was reading all of the Bat-books I thought Tim was a very likable, believable character. He was the first Robin not to be a ward of Bruce Wayne. He had his own identity. His relationship with Spoiler and her unwed motherhood story were very well done.
This was a good time for the Bat-books. I liked Dick's becoming a policeman. I liked Oracle and the Birds of Prey. I liked the Cassandra Cain Batgirl. I liked Huntress. I liked the GOOD Catwoman.
What happened?
I never really warmed up to Tim Drake -- he arrived at just about the time my interest in Batman was waning, and so he's always just been one of the replacement Robins to me. Basically vanilla, whereas Dick, as the first, Jason, as the bad boy, and Damien, as the brat, all strike me as their own characters. Tim always seemed like the best possible person to take over the Robin position -- and less interesting because of it. But part of that, I'm sure, comes from me not reading many Batman stories of that era (which is why I also don't have that affection for Cass Cain or Spoiler, or even the Helena Bertinelli Huntress).
Basically I'm just saying I'm old and waving my cane around.
But Tim -- heck, all of the Titans -- could really stand to be treated better. I'm hoping the upcoming Titans Hunt does some of that, although that seems to be focused on the old guard.
I love the character of Tim Drake. I think what I liked best about him is that I was there right on the ground floor with him, and I got to watch him change and grow over the span of about fifteen years or so. I really don't like the fact that he is not in the "Robin canon" anymore officially, but I still have all those years where he was. Those are the canon on Earth-Sensei, and that's all I really actually care about. Still, he was indeed screwed over with the New52.