You, sir, have *ruined* a perfectly lovely panel. Forever!
His run was cut short, wasn't it? There's enough in the issues as published to suggest that if it had gone on longer, he was positioning Dick for a bigger role. I think he was in every issue after Joker War?
Well, his personality changed pretty sharply once he got paired with Dick - and it's that kind of "second draft" of Damian that stuck.
Anyway, I'm interested in what all this talk of a closer Bat Family of titles means. I hope it isn't the Snyder style of everyone being perpetually tied into and subservient to a Bat Event - but I wouldn't mind an arc told across the "Nightwing" and "Robin" titles, for instance.
It's interesting where we've ended up. Between Tynion, Taylor and Williamson we have three writers who are basically peers - rather than in the New 52, say, when Snyder was the Big Dog and everyone else was in orbit. And they're also three writers who strike me as from a slightly different Fan Generation - I don't think any of them would be hugely interested in "OMG, Bruce just punched Dick/Tim/Damian/Ace The Bat Hound!" twists.