All the horrific details can be found at newsarama.
Winick will write a five-issue arc that will follow Azzarello's Broken City. According to Winick the plan for now is to turn Batman into a LOTDK style book (he doesn't use that exact phrase) which would feature all the biggest names in comics telling "their" Batman story.
No idea what this means for Legends, which has been my favorite Bat book for a long time now, but it can't be good.
Sad news all around.
They made Rucka write an endless series of crossovers and saddled him with one second-rate artist after another on Tec until he finally had enough and quit.
They did the exact same thing to poor Ed Brubaker, probably the best Batman writer of the last 20 years, if not all time. Who else thinks that Brubaker would have stayed on forever if they'd made Sean Phillips the regular artist on Tec? Wouldn't do it though.
They replaced Devin Grayson, who wasn't all that great on Gotham Knights, with Scott Beatty, who is just downright unreadable. Makes Larry Hama look like Alan Moore.
The quality of the writing has been on a steady downward spiral since July of 2002.
Loeb's run was so awful on so many levels. If the rest of Azzarello's run reads anything like the first issue, it'll be even worse than Hush. And now Winick? What the hell are Schreck and Didio thinking?
They replaced Brubaker with a guy who has published exactly one more comic than I have because he really likes Batman as a character. Jesus fucking Christ. How goddamn insane is that?
They replaced Grayson with Beatty, and now they're replacing Beatty with the writer from Harley Quinn? Harley fucking Quinn? It sells less than some self-published independent stuff? Good God.
What the hell is going on?
And now Winick.
If you told me they were bringing Hitler aboard for a 5-issue run, I would been all like, "Give the guy a chance. Sure he's genocidal meglomaniac with delusions of grandeur bent on world conquest, but maybe he has a good Joker story in him somewhere."
But Winick? I feel like someone close to me just died. Granted I'll be saving $10 a month but I'm gonna miss Batman.
