10 Reasons Why The New 52 Was Doomed To Fail

5. Editorial Interference

DC editorial was utterly dreadful during this period. Terrible, even.

In fact, we can directly attribute various writing and artistic departures to shoddy editorial practice, including George Perez, Gail Simone, Andy Diggle and, most notoriously, J. H. Williams III and Haden Blackman, who had been working on Batwoman for the better half of a year when they resigned.

The reason for the resignation lay in the fact that DC wouldn't let the writer/artist duo proceed with a storyline that would see title character Kate Kane marry long-term love interest, Maggie Sawyer. Numerous other instances of editorial interference ensured that Blackman and Williams would depart the project, but this particular offence certainly hurt the most.

In a particularly brilliant 'f*ck you' to the move, Rocksteady included an easter egg in Arkham Knight that showed that the pair had most definitely married in their universe, which is as brilliant a reply as any, really.