I don’t think so. I mean, when I think of a Robin, I think of someone without powers. Gotham Girl has a significant power set. But unfortunately, she does sort of enter that parallel orphan world of all these Robins, and her parents were killed, and her brother got killed…So she has that pain that all Robins have that I think Batman helps heal and he heals for the city, which is sort of part of the answer to what makes him a great character.

But I didn’t set out to write another Robin story. I wanted to create a unique dynamic, something a little different, but maybe I settled into that Robin story. Maybe that naturally brings you back, like you try to escape that orbit but you’re pulled back into it. I don’t know.

You’ve also reintroduced some pretty old DC villains, such as Hugo Strange, Psycho-Pirate, and the Monster Men. What do you love so much about these baddies?

I love different things about each of them. Hugo Strange was a way to give a shout out to the original Batman #1 from Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Since I was doing a new Batman #1, I decided to take a villain from that issue and put him in my issue and I even used some of the original lines. I loved that idea.

Psycho-Pirate was a revelation to me as a child. I read Crisis on Infinite Earths, which was about this huge, Earth-shaking apocalyptic villain called the Anti-Monitor, who could do anything he wanted. But the weapon the Anti-Monitor used to accomplish his tasks was this weeny little guy with a mask. How utterly amazing! As a kid, I was like, “What? This little villain?” And that always fascinated me. When I had a chance to put in a big bad, I went with Psycho-Pirate.