Oh, how quaint. Once again nobody sent poor Bob Rozakis the memo from the future. DC doesn't believe in generational heroes any more!!
There were no "super-heroes" before Superman now, the Justice League was the first team, and this group of heroes had no predecessors/mentors.
As to being replaced by their young proteges...hahahahahahahahah. The past several years have been dedicated to ensuring that the heroes of 1979 are exactly the same heroes in 2011, thank you very much. Just try to find Wally West and Donna Troy in the Flushpoint Universe. Roy Harper will be there, but it seems as if he's never been Ollie's protege there. Garth? Good luck finding him.
And Robin? Dick-as-Batman has been rejected by the powers that be, so it's all-Bruce, all the time. And Robin is just an intern program now...so obviously he was never meant to take the cowl!
On a related issue, from the Answer Man Column in Superboy & The Legion Of Super-Heroes #253 (1979):
Of course, the answer today would be "They're ALL young!! Younger than you think!! They're so young, newborns can relate to them!! As young as you think they are, THEY'RE YOUNGER!!"
wait, I thought they weren't screwing with batman? I am so confused...again.
ReplyDeleteThey're not screwing "much" with Batman. He's still subject to the "heroes just became public 5 years ago" premise of New DC, which leaves the problem of how to fit his mostly non-altered history, including 5 Robins, into that time. So they're going the "he was operating unknown to the public for X years" route, and in the link above declare Robin was an "intern" program, so I guess each one is (supposedly) not around very long...
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