10 Greatest Comic Books We Never Got To See

10. Tom King - Nightwing

Tom King recently shared via Twitter that, in the wake of Nightwing having been shot in the head by KGBeast, he had a proposal rejected by DC that would have seen Tim Drake take over the Nightwing mantle as Dick Grayson recovered.

Per King, this would have included "two brothers bonding, caring for each other in the shadow of the Bat", and Dick would have resumed the Nightwing mantle "in 6-12 issues".

Instead, what we got was Ric bloody Grayson. Yep, a two-year-long arc, a classic case of sniper-induced amnesia and a whole lot of fan displeasure.

Dan DiDio's editorial intervention has had a lot to answer for in the last decade, and this is not least among them. It seems nobody involved in the storyline was happy with the turn it took. Nightwing writer Benjamin Percy's run was hijacked in order to run with the amnesia arc, King's suggestions were rejected, and instead of getting to continue Percy's promising run, we got one of the worst extended arcs in recent comics history.

Post-shooting, amnesiac Dick Grayson renamed himself Ric Grayson (haha!) and became a taxi driver, and it lasted two years. Need we go on?