![]() Since a storyline is coming up wherein they go back to Tamaran, and I believe the jist of it – great of Marv not to take to hemming and hawing about it – is the fact that she’s going to abdicate. And the fact that when he kills someone, it was also protecting this same woman, it’s like everything he’s done that’s been out of character for him up till now, has always been because of her. Pérez: They’re worrying more about the fact that he’s gone to bed with someone whom he’s deeply in love with. ![]() And there’s more hullabaloo than when he’s killed someone. MacDONALD: Yeah, I was going to say, Robin has killed. Dick is not a fool, and if there were any chance of them regretting the action later, they would have taken any preventive deeds necessary, but they are both consenting adults, and no matter what – the title says Teen Titans – at 19 years old, those two are legally adult. Marv didn’t want to go into a controversy on the letters page, but as far as we’re concerned, and particularly as far as I’m concerned, they’re both at the age of consent. Equivalent of an Earth 18-year-old, but their mores are different, and for her it was a totally irrelevant as far as the fact that she was at that age. Pérez: Well, the simple reason that Dick is 19 years old. Whose idea was that, the panel of Dick and Kory? Let me ask you now about the famous, or infamous panel. MacDONALD: The first time I ever saw Baxter paper, I think it was the white that was most impressive. The always amazing Heidi MacDonald interviewed George Perez in 1985 for Fantagraphics' Focus on George Perez book, and Perez had a surprising revelation about the actual fan reaction to the scene. ![]() However, as it turned out, a lot of that controversy might have been so overblown that it really wasn't the issue that people believe it to be. This was a rather novel thing at the time and the various comic book magazines (Comics Journal, Amazing Heroes, etc.) made a lot of hay about it and in the years since, it has been looked at as a really controversial moment.
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