

I have four brothers and a sister, so I have a lot of siblings, and it was fun to draw on all that. You see Beast Boy's family in "Beast Boy" and "Beast Boy Loves Raven." I liked the idea of continuing a family theme where you're not only seeing the found family and the Teen Titans group form, but you're also looking at real sibling dynamics. You see her new mom, which is really her aunt.

In "Raven," you see her foster mom who's about to be her adoptive mom. All of the books are about found family, but they all have different bits of family in them. The idea of a brothers' story came to mind, and that's in line with the series anyway. He was like, "I really want to have Dick too." That was complicated because I was planning on one Robin, but then I tried to figure out how would I incorporate both of them since Dick is his favorite and Damian is mine. Even though he liked Damian, he was sad and sounded upset. He saw there was a Robin pitch, but he didn't realize it was Damian. Then, once Gabriel was the artist for the project, and we were co-creating together - Dick is his favorite Robin. In my original pitch, it was a Damian-Robin pitch. What made Robin - both Damian and Dick Grayson - the next characters you wanted to focus on? It's nice to see that payoff when the books come out and the readers are so excited about them. We all know each other, and we feel comfortable with what everyone else brings to the table.
