How many people are planning to continue Tom King’s Batman after #50?

[millernumber1]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but with all the talk around this upcoming event, is the "Rules of Engagement" lead up story an easy read to jump into, and is King's run worth reading?

I've enjoyed it, but not enough to pull it regularly. I do think it's worthwhile, but King's stuff is so end-focused it's sometimes hard to tell, and we're only in the middle of it. I'd check out some of the shorter stories like Rooftops and see if you like them, and then go from there.

[kevinbruns]

Been buying Batman comics for 30 years at this point both forwards and backwards (think Im only missing a few issues from 400+ and have most between 300-400 and still working backwards too..., haven't stopped yet, why stop now?

[Celgress]

I'll continue reading after issue 50. I love the Bat comics right now, they are my favorites.

[Celgress]

I am sticking around after 50. Married Batman is now the real test. This is a huge development for the Bruce and Selena relationship after almost 80 years of playing cat and mouse.

I couldn't agree with you more.

[nickytesla96]

I'm sticking around. Really interested to see how married Bruce is handled.

Not pulling that many DC books other than Batman and Mister Miracle. And at least 1 of the upcoming Adventures of Super Sons, Catwoman and Plastic Man series, we'll see. And with Tomasi's Superman and Priest's Justice League ended, I'm not struggling as much with having too many double-shipped books on my list. So definitely able to stick around.

[Wolfsbane]

It was clearly made in jest, and Wolfsbane prefaced it by saying the writing was what they liked. The other comment was incidental.

Thank you SiegePerilous02. I clearly mentioned that I enjoy his writing. The stud comment was just something I added. Apologies if I’ve offended you Major Hoy or anyone else.

But to be on topic, I’m in for the long haul. His style of writing just suits me. I’m also enjoying Tynions run on Detective as well....it’s a great time to be a Batman fan.

[Shriveling_memo]

Batman, actually comics in general are poor at the moment. King batman is awful, yes there been a few good issues but the overall run been poor. I liked synder batman. All of his arcs were either good or great. Even Gordon run as batman was decent.

[JBatmanFan05]

I may not stick around if some continuity hijinks don't undo this marriage.

Batman should not be married. Superman should not be married. Not that many long-unmarried heroes that I can tolerate being married and the bigger and more iconic the hero, the less I tolerate it.

[klynn]

They should just have a bruce and selina book for that and batman and catwoman for seperate adventures. The same could be said about Lois and Clark and I want that Lois Lane book too

I think the better question is how many will continue if the wedding doesn't happen or the batcat plot was transferred over to the Catwoman solo but King is still on Batman only no romance nothing Batcat just Batman Gordon, Alfred, GG and Duke?

Not much I think many people like myself believe without the bat/cat subplot King would have been dismissed by how he wrote batman already. Those who either enjoy catwoman solo or the marriage will probably go over to the better written catwoman series that is coming soon. Yes I believe that will be the case. If king continues to write batman the way he has he will be gone in about 10 or 12 issues maybe less.

I’ll stick around if Selina does and they explore crime-fighting and married life. Otherwise, it’ll depend on the direction he wants to take with Bruce and whichever Batcharacters he’s hanging with.

I'll continue to buy issues where Selina is a prominent character. I'm interested is seeing them as a married couple, that is if they actually do tie the knot in issue 50. Regardless, I'm really looking forward to the Catwoman series more than I am continuing with Batman.

[Talon1load]

From reading the Batman preview threads it sounds like more and more people are getting tired of King’s bullshit.

[JasonTodd428]

From reading the Batman preview threads it sounds like more and more people are getting tired of King’s bullshit.

To be blunt the only thing I'm getting tired of is the rampant negativity on this forum with regard to his run and also the rampant "King is a hack writer" attitude I keep sensing from those posts when I bother to even read them, which it almost never. I (and likely a lot of others) have stopped even bothering with those posts because of the attitude and negativity. I know not every book or writer is going to be to someone's taste but continually complaining about it serves no real purpose either other than to drive the people who might want to discuss the book away. I know I'm staying away from Batman posts because of that. Frankly, I'll be glad when King is off the book, not because I hate the run, because then people can stop complaining about a book they aren't enjoying in the first place. (To be blunt again, I don't think people should continue to read something after they've figured out they hate it for whatever reason. In my opinion, and you can take it for what its worth, why waste the time with a book you clearly hate when there are loads of books available that might be just the sort of thing you might want to read? It just baffles me.)

Edit: And I'm not referring to people who might have voiced a legitimate criticism. I know the run has a lot of flaws and I agree with quite a few of the criticisms.

[Kurisu]

From reading the Batman preview threads it sounds like more and more people are getting tired of King’s bullshit.

And yet sales and critical acclaim continue to pour in. ��

[JasonTodd428]

And the number of people who don't post on forums is greater than those that do. There just so happens to be a very vocal group on this forum who hate the book but seriously that means very little in the scheme of things because the overall makeup of the forum is just a small percentage of comic fans.

[SiegePerilous02]

From reading the Batman preview threads it sounds like more and more people are getting tired of King’s bullshit.

It's usually a lot of the same people though, and this forum is not indicative of a large sample size.

[JasonTodd428]

It's usually a lot of the same people though, and this forum is not indicative of a large sample size.

Yeah, there's that too.