Re: "I wanted to kill off Robin as soon as I started writing Batman." Because I have a lot less trouble with Jason dying at the hands of the Joker than Dick being berated by Bruce and then dying at his hands!
Heh:) Good point. I think the -- and I may be giving way more credit than is due, but I have to wonder if Miller was responding to the phone poll crassness and general gang attitude editorially and with the involvement of the public in a--well, kind of bloodthirsty way of phone poll killing off a Robin, versus one writer doing something terrible to a character on their own (more or less).