Quote: Rob Kamphausen said: robin is an access point to a lot of the batman titles. kids can't always associate with batman, but they could associate with robin -- closer to their age, and a more attainable, belieavable persona / ability level. a kid wouldn't necessarily think "i have to beat up killer croc, and rescue that orphan before he's murdered," but he might think "wow, batman is so cool, especially when he beat up killer croc and saved that kid! ... and i got to help!!"
Bullshit. I've heard that standard industry line again and again and I've never bought into that. No kid wants to be the sidekick. They want to be the hero. When I was a kid, I never wanted to be Robin, and neither did any of my friends. We wanted to be the heroes, not the useless, boring sidekicks.
