Originally Posted by
Badou
I disagree completely. King has the pull at DC to shoot Dick in the head and even kill Alfred. If he wanted to he could have easily followed up this story he set up by writing it in his own Batman title. There was nothing stopping him, but he didn't do that. King shot Dick in the head and then completely ignored the character afterwards. He didn't show the character once. That isn't on editorial, but on King. It isn't like he didn't have room given how dragged out his Batman book became after issue #50.
He could have taken control of the situation by writing it in his own Batman book and then letting the Nightwing and Titans book take reference from him, but he didn't care. Dick's fallout wasn't what he was concerned with. Instead of just giving editorial a pitch about Tim as Nightwing and then just ignoring Ric when they did that instead he could have had a bigger plan in place from the start when he shot him in the head instead of just putting it all on editorial. He only wanted to shoot Dick not because he had a story planned out for Dick, but because he wanted to throw Dick under the bus for Bruce's development and because of his lack of planning that lead to over 18 months of Ric now.
King should have known better too given how the Grayson series even came about. Johns did the same fucking thing. He exposed Dick's ID to the world for shock value after dragging his character into that Forever Evil event completely derailing his own title and direction, and had zero plan or interest in following any of that up. Just passed it along to editorial, but somehow the stars aligned and we got the Grayson series. That was kind of an accident and we can't expect that to happen every time Dick gets his direction messed with like that. King being involved in that before would make you think he would have taken more care with doing things for shock value and having no plan or interest in following them up.