Today, U.S. and U.K. comic shops get the final wave of DC Comics’s New 52 zero issues–and while we’ll be looking at all of them later on, one particular story beat seems to have run away with most of the conversation on the comics Internet this morning–and that is the revelation in Teen Titans #0 that Tim Drake, better known as Red Robin (don’t ever call him Robin, folks), is apparently not an orphan.It bucks the long-standing trend of having Batman and his wards all be orphans, but perhaps that’s acceptable to DC since they’ve retconned Drake to never have been Robin in the first place.At any rate, Tim’s parents are on the run for their safety and have to leave him behind–something that fills him with the same feeling of loss and blame that we’ve seen Bruce Wayne take onto himself in recent incarnations of his younger years, but with the notable difference that (assuming they haven’t returned and then been killed again in the intervening years, his parents are up and walking around, able to be brought back as a story beat.
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