Pull-List Trouble...

I'm thinking of taking Robin off of my pull-list. Actually, "thinking of" pretty much means I'm going to do it the next time I'm in the comic store and remember to do it. I'm fairly decided about it.

I'm kind of sad though. Robin was the first series I really started reading comics with and I still have deep fondness for the Tim Drake character and how he thinks and acts. And "A Lonely Place of Dying" was like the first trade paperback I actively hunted down myself.

At the same time I've been largely dissatisfied with the series of late. I don't really know why. I haven't soured on the character, really, but I don't get the same delight either. It may just be that I like Tim more in theory than execution (and that I've been getting my fill of awesome, intense, scary-competent characters elsewhere. Not that there can ever be too many, but these others may be more to my taste.)

I don't know if it's the writing, but I know that the announcement of Chuck Dixon being back on the series doesn't particularly appeal to me either. That may be more just a general dissatisfaction with his more recent work than anything else, and heck, maybe he'll be awesome again on Robin.

Oh well, if it's good, I'm sure I'll be buying it again. If not, well, there are other series to buy. :-) It still feels kind of weird though.