Who Should Take Over Batman After Tom King?

[Nite-Wing]

Probably going to be Bendis but my vote is for Priest

[Frontier]

One thing that could be interesting...and I don't think I've seen one mentioned here...why not put a female writer on the book? Kelly Sue DeConnick or G. Willow Wilson or someone like that...I dunno...would be interesting to see a take on Batman from the opposite sex.

I don't disagree, but I'd honestly rather just have a higher profile female writer on Batgirl to be honest. Feels like she needs it more.

[lemonpeace]

Christopher Priest or (if they could snag him from Immortal Hulk) Al Ewing.

[numberthirty]

Who should?

China Mieville.

The one writer DC might have a chance at hiring that would probably do a solid job following whatever King is planning.

[Eto]

Priest
Tomasi
Cates. I would like to see Cates (when/if he joins DC) have a shot at writing Batman.

[Adset]

Bendis to Batman is inevitable, but unless he sheds a bunch of his workload I certainly hope it's a bit farther down the line. I'm not a Bendis hater -- he's done some really good stuff, and I'm enjoying both Super books and Young Justice right now -- but his worst stuff always seemed to come when he was overworked. Personally, I'd bet on him jumping ship to the Bat-titles after his Superman run winds down.

[bobellis75]

I don't disagree, but I'd honestly rather just have a higher profile female writer on Batgirl to be honest. Feels like she needs it more.

Yeah I could see that as well....I'd like to see more women get a shot a high profile male characters though. It doesn't always have to be women write women and men write men, etc. Would just be interesting to see a woman writing Batman or Captain America or some other flagship type of character.

That said, a writer should be chosen for the quality of their craft...but...I think we can all agree there are some excellent women writers in comics these days.

[MajorHoy]

I wouldn't mind if Scott Lobdell took over if it meant we could get Tom King away from the character / franchise before the end of this year!

Sounds like the latter part of this might actually be a possibility (according to rumors on Bleeding Cool)?

[Frontier]

Yeah I could see that as well....I'd like to see more women get a shot a high profile male characters though. It doesn't always have to be women write women and men write men, etc. Would just be interesting to see a woman writing Batman or Captain America or some other flagship type of character.

That said, a writer should be chosen for the quality of their craft...but...I think we can all agree there are some excellent women writers in comics these days.

No arguments there .

[Stingo]

Alright, this feels a wee bit morbid as the proverbial body ain't even cold yet (Why DC, why?)...But if forced to think of a writer who can do action, espionage and film noir styled writing, I would toss Ed Brubaker's hat in the ring (reluctantly because this seems so very wrong what DC is doing to King).

[Hilden B. Lade]

Alright, this feels a wee bit morbid as the proverbial body ain't even cold yet (Why DC, why?)...But if forced to think of a writer who can do action, espionage and film noir styled writing, I would toss Ed Brubaker's hat in the ring (reluctantly because this seems so very wrong what DC is doing to King).

Brubaker's recently renewed an exclusive contract with Image, and he's personally expressed that he's felt he's said all he has to say about superheroes before, so his chances as a Bat-writer anytime soon are pretty slim to say the least.

[SixSpeedSamurai]

What about Gail Simone? She's never written either of the two main Batbooks.

[Frontier]

What about Gail Simone? She's never written either of the two main Batbooks.

It would probably never happen, but I wouldn't mind Simone writing more Batman .

[SixSpeedSamurai]

It would probably never happen, but I wouldn't mind Simone writing more Batman .

I would too, I enjoy her work. She's not on the outs at DC is she? She did the Plastic Man mini recently I know that.

My guess though is DC is going to throw as big of a name as they can get on there to bring sales back up as fast as possible.

[byrd156]

What about Gail Simone? She's never written either of the two main Batbooks.

I want more Simone period. I don't care what book she gets.