Re: "I wanted to kill off Robin as soon as I started writing Batman."
I know they're just fictional characters, but it's icky to me that they're so gleeful.
I was just poking around the internet and noticed two things: Max Collins first wrote Jason 2, but looks like he only wrote him for 5 issues. (In Batman, not Detective.) Then one by Jo Duffy, then Starlin. For 12 issues before we get to Death in the Family. And Starlin admits hating him ("everyone did!") AND modeling from Miller's Batman-of-the-time. And then I found this, halfway down on this page: Writer/artist Frank Miller, who had worked on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One, said, "To me the whole killing of Robin thing was probably the ugliest thing I've seen in comics, and the most cynical."