Yeah, I’ve lost my suspension of disbelief with this storyline. There are literal Made Men from La Cosa Nostra (the Mob) who went into WP and never had this many attempts on their lives.
As Stephan said in the first treasury, “Pig is the easiest character to write for. He just needs to misunderstand everything he hears, then when it’s explained to him, he needs to misunderstand that too.”
I asked Jim Starlin about Jason’s death at a con once, and he just started going off about the whole sequence of events which led up to it. According to him, none of the Batman group creators liked Jason, and Denny O’Neill (the group editor) called Jim into his office one day to discuss writing him out. Said they went through four or five different scenarios before Jim joked “Why don’t we just kill him?” and Denny perked up. His (Jim’s) basic position is that he’s never cared for the concept of Robin and feels Batman works best alone. He also said writing Joker beating Jason with a crowbar was one of his favorite things he’s ever done. _
Yeah, I’ve lost my suspension of disbelief with this storyline. There are literal Made Men from La Cosa Nostra (the Mob) who went into WP and never had this many attempts on their lives.