Originally Posted by
Inversed
That's like saying Bendis' draw would falter because of CWII, when that clearly didn't turn out to be the case. He's still got Mister Miracle (which also would skip months and look how that turned out), he's got another new blank check project in the works, and he's adored by majority of fans and nearly the whole industry, he's gonna be fine.
And there's nothing inherently wrong with "low stakes". Hell, I remember someone else earlier in this thread or somewhere else criticize the book by saying it failed to deliver on more of the most popular stories, like Rooftops and Superfriends (which are literally just the characters hanging out), so having a whole book of just that may end up being a good thing overall.
Yeah, this is all about looking at things from an actual logical perspective.
King IS one of the most popular and sought after comic writers working today. That is a fact, just because you don't like his stuff doesn't mean its not true, ditto to someone like Bendis. Beyond how you feel about the work itself, it makes no sense for DC to want to ruin their creative partnership by cutting off his run before the end, with his ending thrown to the side to "please him". You risk losing a huge commodity, when someone like Marvel would be super happy to snag him up and give him more creative freedom.
That is why him being given another job, one that would take priority over the comics, and them agreeing on the move together makes all the more sense.
I think beyond even just the rest of the book itself, I think issue 50's reception and the lead-up to it showed how many Bat/Cat fans there are, so no matter what integration it is in, there's a draw that people will be curious or excited about. Feel to me like it will easily do somewhere between Batman and Detective Comics sales wise, hell I think it even has the potential to do better than the main book, since it has all the right trappings (big name creative team, maxi-series prestige, single digit numbers versus late 80s-90s, etc.) but of course we'll have no idea until it actually happens.