I'm not a King hater at all. But neither am I currently pulling his run on Batman. I think King works best on a monthly book where he has lot of time to plan all of the little details that add up to powerful conclusions - honestly, I think he's best in 12-issue miniseries. A twice-monthly book just stretches him past his ability to plan and construct carefully, so you get mysteries where the clues are slipshod (I Am Gotham), endings that don't really land (all of the I Am trilogy), a flashback that spends too much time on summary issue after issue (War of Jokes and Riddles), and an engagement which hops from artist to artist without much actual momentum. There's some real gold in there - the Rooftops issue, and opening of I Am Suicide, the parallels of I Am Bane and Superfriends - but it's inconsistent, as opposed to the carefully built burn of Vision, Omega Men, Mister Miracle, and to some extent Grayson.
I don't know that Dixon has nothing to say about Batman. At the very least, he'd give us solid individual stories for Batman, and that's kind of hit or miss these days. But I do think that he doesn't fit with the current tone and characterization of Batman.
Hmm. I'm not convinced that seasoned veterans is the wrong way to go - Jurgens has been reasonably popular on Action, I believe. But I also think that giving the seasoned veterans like Dixon and Wolfman their Bane and Raven maxiseries is a fun thing for fans and writers.
I agree. I think Tynion is doing fine, and replacing him to get a better version of what he's already trying to do isn't going to go well.
I don't think he does, per se. I think he's so ingrained into the Denny O'Neil "Batman shouldn't be with any woman, because if you start with one, all of the writers will write him with their favorite character." And that's exactly what happened right after O'Neil left. But Dixon loves Selina as a character.
Hear hear!