New Brevoort Formspring

It’s a fact of life that characters in comics are only going to mature so far and so fast–and that there’s always going to be a pull towards the condition in which they were created. Typically, that’s because their function within whichever team or family unit they exist in is to be the younger less mature one, and so them becoming seasoned and stable simply makes them boring. And if you’re not careful, you wind up with Batman having somehow had four Robins who all worked beside him and learned extensively from him in the space of five years.