Which it does.

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Dick Grayson was 10 years old when he became Robin, and is now pushing 30. How old do we imagine Bruce Wayne was when he adopted Dick? How old does that make him now? How old does it make everyone else?

The insanity of how ages (and aging) is handled at DC is beyond comprehension. Hal Jordan was arbitrarily aged, replete with the addition of white temples, then bumped from his role as Green Lantern because he's "too old".* Something similar happened to Oliver Queen. After I left Superman, other writers began insisting I had made him 35 (I had not). This means that with the way other characters have been seen to age since then -- my version of Wonder Girl, case in point -- Clark should be into his 40s by now.

*When I did GANTHET'S TALE, which was set slightly "in the Past" I suggested to the editor that we use Hal's exposure to "entropy" at the end as a way to retroactively explain his white temples. The editor agreed, so that was how I drew it -- dark temples thru-out, until the last pages. Unfortunately -- and all too typically -- the editor forgot to tell anybody else, so even tho I had not given Hal white temples in the majority of the book, on those pages the brown of the rest of his hair was left off the temples, making it look like I had goofed and been "saved" by the colorist.

I've seen photos of the guy Ross uses as his Batman model--and the guy is chunky, much more so than the statue above even.

Ross's rationale for choosing a doughboy for "his" Batman remain a mystery.

Which it does.

Now I'm probably misunderstanding but he's in that group shot (didn't realize there was a shot of him alone), and I didn't post it to protest him being fat I agree with you he that he looks fat (and Black Canary's thighs don't look too trim either). I don't like how Ross' paintings have made everyone try to make photo-realistic superheroes now, even in the monthly books(by photoshopping photographs).