Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Mastermind View Post
When sales tanked (purely because Batwing is a new character which means he'll automatically sell poorly), DC took this uniqueness away and made him heavily related to Batman and in Gotham because they thought this might help sales (but comic readers still won't read about a new character).
Yeah the change to a more Bat/Gotham-centric book did nothing to improve sales in fact I believe they got worse even. So on top of everything else it was a change that amounted to nothing insofar as the book itself was concerned since the change didn't save it. Mistakes were made on all fronts IMO but the bulk of it boils down to the way the writer handled the transition. Had it been better handled fans of the first series might not have felt like they had been slapped in the face by the change and so they might have stuck around. Hard to say at this point. All I do know is I quite reading it after the change and I don't care about the Luke version at all because of this.