Latest Action Comics (Spoilers for Nightwing's identity)

[mithen]

Character A is a snarky, dark-haired teen with tactile telekenesis.
Character B is a sweet-tempered, light-haired pre-teen without tactile telekenesis.
Character C is a masked, snarky, dark-haired teenager with tactile telekenesis.

Would you lay odds on Character C being A or B under the mask?

Well, DC sez: "It's Character B! He's been randomly aged, his hair has turned black, and he's developed a snarky temperament and tactile telekenesis! Aren't you surprised?"

Oh DC, "surprised" doesn't even begin to cover my reaction.

Comments

[mithen.livejournal.com]

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.