>>107687695The main problem is that King isn't edited properly. A good editor would step in and tell him to change something, to do an idea better, to put more effort in, etc.
The story is, King wanted David Finch to illustrate a specific scene. Finch was on vacation with his family and the editor at the time told King that this won't fly. The man is on vacation, leave him alone. King threw a bitch fit, got the editor removed from Batman and had Finch illustrate the scene anyways.
Ever since then, the quality of Batman has been steadily falling with stupider and stupider scenes passing quality control.
An example everyone brings up is Catwoman kicking 3 Flashes unconscious within seconds as they were running towards her. Even taking into account they (along with billions of other people) were mind-controlled by Ivy, this is still straining plausibility. One Flash, okay maybe. Three in a row? Not a chance.
There's more problems, like with Catwoman supposedly loving Batman, but sometimes talking about him as if she held some kind of not-so-secret disdain for him. Or the "clever" dialogue (two-to-two, too).
King has the fundamentals of writing a story down pat, but he's unrefined, lacking in a proper editor, and I'm willing to bet he hasn't read that many novels to have a proper foundation for storytelling.
As Stephen King put it (paraphrased): To be a good writer you need to write a lot and read a lot.
