I get where you are coming from on this, particularly since the second one has been used in multiple stories/titles during the Night of Owls storylines. But both of these seem like they are fairly restrictive.BobBretall wrote:It combined 2 of my least favorite things in comics:
1 - Introduce a brand new villain/organization and act like it's something that's been around for years
2 - Introduce a new villain/minion we are meant to believe is a heretofore unknown relative of the comic's main character
The first means that all villains/organizations introduces have to be new and can't have been operating in secret for any length of time. Isn't the problem really that the Court of Owls has been active in a fairly known but still "secretive" manner for over a century stretching the credibility that Batman didn't ready know about them.
The second implies that either all of the relatives of the major characters are either introduced up front or can't be villains in any manner. Again, this is one that was recently done for multiple characters which is what makes is so hard to accept. Having the Batman, Nightwing and Batgirl titles all recently telling stories involving a relative that is a major threat to the title character is the problem. The writing device isn't great but there are times when it can be used well. Part of the key is to use it occasionally, not in multiple titles at once.
Again, I can see how and why these aspects of the Batman titles aren't working for you right now but I do think there are ways for writers to break both of your points and still tell great stories. It just wasn't done in this case.
