Thread:Hatebunny/@comment-24549220-20140215030902/@comment-3361105-20140215031630

It wasn't the best decision DC could have made, but it is in keeping with their vision. Unfortunately, that vision didn't include the mature kind of storytelling to be found in Williams and Blackman's book.

I was probably too quick to say that the book would inevitably fail, because it won't. I'm a bit behind on my reading, but I've read the first two of Marc Andreyko's run on the book, and while it's not the same tone or the same art style as it used to be, it's still... okay. It's not what I want, but it's okay. (Marc Andreyko is a decent writer, after all, famous for his run on Manhunter).

If you have a look at the solicits for the future DC Batman titles, there's going to be a lot more of Kate Kane in the DCU. It seems pretty clear that DC intends to completely integrate her into the Bat family.

And like I said, that's not what I want from the character after having 25 solid issues that felt like they belonged in the same world as Greg Rucka's version in Detective Comics a few years back - but it's still okay. Still better than much of what DC has to offer right now.