“She is the future, and she’s everything that Batman is working towards.” “She is the complete symbol of youth,” he explained. Compared with other superheroes, Kelley is one who constantly changes and evolves Miller said that he “certainly hopes” that the readers take her example to heart. For The Master Race, things have changed again, although to say anything more would be to spoil the series’ first issue. She’s the apple of Batman’s eye and of mine,” he said.Īfter spending the original 1986 series as Robin, Kelley took on the identity of Catgirl for the 2001 follow-up, The Dark Knight Strikes Again. “To me, she’s always been the most important part of the whole thing. That character, however, Carrie Kelley, is one so close to Miller’s heart that he temporarily dropped the humor when he talked about her. Miller’s response? “Well, thank you, but one of the reasons I did it was that I just thought the costume looked better on a girl,” he says, laughing. That was an amazing, and very forward thinking, thing that Frank was doing back then.” People are talking about diversification these days, but Frank was doing that 30 years ago. “And that was groundbreaking 30 years ago. “Not only was the first Dark Knight ahead of its time in terms of format and storytelling, you can see something that Frank did that was way ahead of its time, in that he introduced a female Robin,” Janson says at one point.

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