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>Be a hack writer.
>By some miracle, get on the most profitable capeshit book on the market.
>Spend a year of issues and extra books working towards one thing. A thing that many fans of that book have been looking forward to for years, if not decades.
>It's the only reason people are buying your poorly written book, because at least maybe other writers will get to do fun stuff with it.
>Proceed to fake out at the last moment.
>Think the reception is going to be awesome and fans will love your emotional and gripping story about a tortured and vulnerable Batman.
>Watch the shitstorm unfold on the internet where maybe only one in a thousand or two readers are actually on your side still.
>Every LCS in the country is now in danger of hemorrhaging money because of all the advertisement they spent on your fake out that a large number of people are no longer going to buy.
>"Please don't read the spoilers guys. Just buy the issue"

How does one man ruin his entire career so completely in the span of two pages?
This is Quesada/Bendis/Slott levels of bad calls.