>>110328649I'm almost 100% sure that Scott Snyder wanted to kill of Cluemaster because he wanted Lincoln March to be the main villain.
I love Valentine's Catwoman, but I do actually think she went a tad more mean than Steph normally is, even at her angriest. But that's mostly Valentine's "voice", and I can't really fault her when she wrote that brilling Steph scene in Batman and Robin Eternal.
I think that what Tynion did with her in Detective Comics often gets missed for a lot of reasons. It made her harder to like, because she was clearly wrong in a way Dixon never made her wrong, but Tynion was trying to find a way to make Steph an outsider without making Batman the same kind of jerk he was when Beatty had him fire Steph, or War Games.
Here, indeed, is hoping for Bendis doing something good with Steph.
