Yeah successful pimpage is about right, I somehow now find myself collecting Batman comics from the late 1980s (and other Nightwing/Dick Grayson stuff)... Which would be great (because I'm really starting to like Nightwing) if I wasn't feeling so ambivalent about the style and quality of the art in so many of them.

But if you haven't read those, you should definitely pick up #416 at least. Great Batman and Nightwing angst. I thought you'd know it because of your Robin essay, because that issue definitely addresses the question.