Getting back into comics that's been one of the things that's surprised me the most--how little control writers have over their own stories, in some ways. Like Willingham starting to write Steph and being told, "Oh, by the way, she's going to die in a few months," so deciding to make her Robin kind of out of spite. It would be a real pain to work under those conditions--I assume some people have more freedom, but you'd have to be one of the biggest names to dictate the development to DC rather than vice versa.