"Um yeah, the Drakes they weren't neglectful, they were somewhat distracted, you know, especially since his mom died and he was left under the care of his father who was somewhat invalided after the events he had been through thanks to Alan Grant. And I always saw them as they were like, you know, free-range parents. That's how I was raised. You know, I left the house in the morning if I wasn't going to school and I wasn't really expected back until dinner time or you know, unless lunch had been planned. And my mother didn't know where I was. Sometimes I was miles and miles away from the house all day. You know, sometimes with kids I'd only met 5 minutes earlier. So, you know, never knew. So, I figured you know the Drakes were like old-school parents, but his dad was a loving dad and interested in his son's studies and everything else and certainly present enough to cause complications for Tim having a secret identity.
And did this subject come up a lot? It came up every Bat Summit. Every Bat Summit, as I've said before in these little broadcasts Denny would go, "Well, what are we going to do about Jack Drake? When are we going to kill Jack Drake?" And I would always argue against it cause I was the main Robin writer. I don't want to kill Jack Drake. And he'd say, "Well, that would be dramatic." And I [said] “Well, yeah, we're not going to sell extra issues, you know, Robin's dad dies. It's not going to sell any [issues]. Nobody cares that much about Jack Drake as a character”. And I said, "And then if you remove Jack Drake, then you remove you know, Tim Drake's parents and now basically Bruce Wayne or Batman becomes his surrogate parent. And I said, "I don't want him to be Dick Grayson. I want him to be Peter Parker.” I want him to have those complications of having a double life. He's still in high school. He has, you know, friends and family and everything else that he has to hide his secret identity from and it generates stories. Why would we get rid of a character who generates stories? So certainly Jack; I think they killed Jack Drake the minute I left the title. I think that poor guy didn't last two pages if I remember correctly. So they couldn't wait to get rid of him. It's hard writing secret identity stuff. "Don't make us do it." Yeah, it's hard. It should be hard. [A] writer's job is to be clever and innovative and present the reader with surprises. It's the job. Do the job. So you can't make everything easy for your character. So who wants to write a who wants to read a book or write a book where everything's easy for the main character? Snoozefest. Anyway, the Drakes were fine as parents. Maybe a little distracted, maybe not there all the time, but you know, Tim Drake wasn't the easiest kid to raise. He's always disappearing. "
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