- He's named not Dick, but "DJ."
- He hasn't yet lost his parents to a sabotaged trapeze, met the Batman, or become Robin.
- It's not even clear from the article whether the show's Graysons will be a family of traveling circus flyers, as they were in the comics.
(Meanwhile, the Robin pictured beside the Variety article is Tim Drake, the fourth Robin. You can tell because he's wearing pants and his cape is yellow only on the inside.)
Speaking as a massive fan of the Superboy concept who finds Smallville totally unwatchable...it gives me no pleasure to know that Robin fans may soon be feeling my pain.
ReplyDeleteWord came in early November that the CW had canceled this project because it didn’t fit in the corporation’s plans for its Batman franchise.
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