#I'm also thinking of Damian's metal spine while writing this

[wesavegotham]

Like...I keep seing people defending Tom King's Batman run by saying stuff like "He didn't mean for Ric to happen, he wanted Dick to be healed with magic right away" or "Alfred's death was just supposed to be a fear gas hallucination in Damian's mind" and...this still wouldn't make King's run good?

King's Batman run was full of cheap shock value. DC actually trying to make Dick getting shot or Alfred getting killed matter and last (against King's plans) wasn't a mistake in my opinion. It was the execution that mostly sucked, but trying to give it some weight wasn't wrong.