And I think each writer definitely could do a solid job. Lemire, Shalvey, Taylor...all could do solid work (even if I would miss Ewing terribly)

Pretty sure it was announced to be ending with #50.

It was never announced. Joe Bennett said it would end at 50 but then deleted the comment.

You're pathetic. Tom King fanboys are obviously going to read a book *written* for fans of his Batman. It sounds like you only read it because you don't like the idea that, without you, it might have a positive user score. Your review is even almost entirely that. Maybe people wouldn't be giving it those 10s if Tom King didn't have a band of no-brain stalkers review bombing his work, while openly admitting they have no other reason to be reading it.

Also, maybe that was a bit hostile of me, and I am actually sorry about that. I just can't put myself in that mindset. Like if I hate a writer, I'm not likely to follow them on their side endeavours.

King cant write Batman it's that simple. He was yanked off the main title 15 issues early. He was given this run as consolation. Did we expect a sudden rise in quality? What's the common thread with nearly all of Kungs work on Batman? The art was good. Not the song quotes. Not the literature quotes. Not the bat/cat dialogue. Not the rehashed plots. Then DC hands the reins to Tynion. A mediocre hack protege of Snyder who gives us Joker War a rehash of city of Bane a rehash of Knightfall.

Bat fans are champing at the bit for a good Batman run again. DC gives us Tynion and Tamaki after King ground the title to halt with his lethargic writing. Batman black and white has been the only fix for Bat fans currently and that's not enough. DC needs to wake up and shake King Tynion and Snyder loose.

I'm a huge Bat fan and I loved Tom King's Batman. Don't assume for the rest of us. Batman has been written with many different voices for 85 years, and Tom King is one of them. His writing style was a lot more esoteric than most Batman titles, but that's what made it good to me. My point here is you know exactly what you're getting now with Batman/Catwoman, it's no longer the main Bat book and probably never should have been. If you read it and expect differently after 85 examples, it's on you

Also can we please stop getting stuck on nicknames? They call each other Bat and Cat. Yes. They have for like 70 issues probably now. It's their gross couple nicknames.

I do get what you mean though. I personally am okay with Tynion IV's Batman, but compared to the past there has been a lack of like big bread and butter Batman stories. I personally hope Chip Zdarsky can throw his hat into the ring soon.

You're entitled to enjoying king on batman but he early departure on the title speaks volumes. The stuck on nicknames thing is merely a glaring example of how kings dialogue for batman grates on so many fans. Its banal to the point of being stupidly so.

It's one thing to have a writing style its another to constantly utilize literary and song quotes in lieu of actual writing. King cant seem to let that crutch go.

Tynion is very lazy and uncreative to me. Joked war was with of bane which had just happened and city of bane king made no mystery of saying is his fleshed out knightfall. DC has to get a better writer on the flagship title. Heck yes Zdarsky a shot.

And yeah I'm a huge batman myself that's why I hate seeing the character done a disservice like this. Again..art is subjective..you enjoy kings work on batman I see his take as lethargic and contrived. We both seem to agree on Tynion to various degrees though.

Oh look, an angry fanboy, just what I expected. :)) Turns out King didn't put enough "mrrow" in the book and he's upset about it. Look, dude, first of all, I'm not the only one rating it low here in case you didn't notice. Second, no, King's writing is not smart, he just makes people feel smart because of his pretentious style and people feel the need to feel smart so rate it with 10. Stop being so butthurt because you realised you're not as smart as you thought you were.

And no, I don't hate King, I actually liked his Batman up until #50. But after that he started to rest on his laurels and actually started believing he is this Alan Moore of today, fans indulged him and now we have... this. This is not good. It's just not. And if the name on the cover was any other writer, it would've been rated with 5 and 6. But since it's King, people are actually pretending it's good which is a problem.

There are 8 other people here who rated it under 5. I'm not alone in this, as much as you want to believe that.

You're far more patient with kings batman than I was merlyn. I was cautious with the Gotham girl storyline because super powered types need really good writing to fit in Gotham. Then...rooftops hit...I tuned King out after that issue. I came back for I am bane only for the art (there's that well the art is good) and I got the pre doomsday clock issues purely for completion on the future series.

After that king couldnt lure me back. The literature quotes. The song quotes. The stupid bat/cat banter. The snail pace. City of Bane being a RIP off of knightfall. Then killing Alfred..sorry..cant buy that.

No, I actually liked his run up until there. Snyder did wonders with Batman but at some point he was running out of ideas and it was showing. King came with a breath of fresh air, pretty good ideas and I was all for it. Then he started to make Batman this depressed guy (because he was having a breakdown because of politics lol). After that he decided just for the sake of it to split Batman from Selina. Then he made Thomas Wayne a villain, again, because King has daddy issues.

And he started to throw all his weird ideas and rantings about religion and politics in the comics. The fact that the storylines were awful didn't help either, Knightmares and City of Bane were abysmal. And now this. I get being a Tom King fan, he can write good comics. But that doesn't mean that out of pure fanboy-ism we should pretend that shitty comics are good when they're not.

Also, this dude could've just look at the previous issue where I didn't rate it that bad, I gave it a 7, above the 6.7 fan average. But he's too blinded by his rage and it's easier for him to think that we're "hating" on his idol rather than just telling it how it is.

Okay first of all, I am a Tom King fanboy, I do admit that. I like most of his work, except HiC. Being upset about his run at all is fine with me, especially if you felt betrayed by issue 50. I think a lot of people did. I did come off as a bit hostile. My bad. I'm in the wrong. I have seen large groups of people harassing Tom King and everything he does, I may have mistaken you for that. Also again nothing wrong with disagreeing with me on his Batman.

I was only drawn to this comment because of you being mad at us who enjoy it. I think I overreacted in my initial reply.