I figured this deserved it's own thread, but James Tynion returned to Twitter to officially announce he is leaving Detective Comics. https://twitter.com/JamesTheFourth/s...39514238570496
"It’s pretty clear from solicits, but unclear enough that folks have been messaging me since yesterday asking about it… But my last issue of DETECTIVE COMICS will be #981, coming out this May.
More than that, it’s my last issue in Gotham City for the immediate future.
I've been working on Batbooks for almost six years. It's hard to say goodbye. It's easier when I'm doing it at the culmination of everything I've built over the last two years in Detective Comics.
The name of the arc, BATMEN ETERNAL, also marks it as the end of a kind of informal trilogy of the three Eternals. They'll always be my Gotham. (My first Gotham, anyways), but I wanted to nod to what this means to me to be stepping off.
And I'll write up something long and sappy with all my special thanks and all of that come May. But until then, there's a lot of work to do. Because I've got big things brewing."
Thoughts on all of this? I was expecting we would at least get a gotham knights spinoff book, but it really looks like Tynion is finished with the batman line. While I know he gets mixed reaction on this forum, I'll be sad to see him gone. I'm gonna take a guess and say he'll probably be one of the new teen titans writers and bring Tim Drake with him.