What's the deal with DC's editorial these days?

Yeah, I've just read the most recent news about the departure of J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman from Batwoman due to editorial interference.

Now, I don't plan to dwell into the rumour that DC has an antigay policy due that this supposedly happened because they didn't allow Kate Kane, the protagonist and her girlfriend, Maggie Sawyer, to get married since past history points to the contrary anyway.

What I'm going to talk about this time is how editorial has been pushing talent away since the New 52 started which has unfortunately become a pretty common problem lately. You may have heard that DC has been doing a lot of changes of direction at the last minute, writers complaining about how his stories are interrupted or even completely negated, creative teams being changed even before they have a chance to do their work, etc.

There is enough evidence to make all of those statements true so one has to wonder, why? Why doesn't DC trust their creative teams to do the job they were initially hired for? If they want to write their own stories why do they even bother to get fresh new talent? Why do they need to have such an excruciating control over everything?

I get that they are a business, maybe the stories that some writers present are not marketable enough or maybe doesn't fit into their personal vision, if they actually have one, but at least they should give them a try. You don't even know how the audience is going to respond to a brand new creative team or a different kind of premise, let people vote with their dollars and then decide if you want to have more control over such series or not.

Batwoman is one of the most recent harmed titles. Since the New 52 started both J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman have been delivering an engaging story with a pretty experimental style of storytelling in both terms of art and writing, they created a whole cast of supporting characters and an unique supernatural theme that made the universe around Kate Kane much more intriguing and so far they haven't created a bad issue in my opinion.

This is what makes this whole deal so baffling, this was a competent creative team, one that didn't need to be interfered with. DC should have at least waited to see the kind of stories that they were planning for the new married couple and see how the readers reacted, now we won't ever know how good this story could have been.

Frankly, if DC continues to follow this route they're going to inevitably implode. The solution is pretty simple: Let the writers write and just interfere with a story if it's completely necessary.

Still, not all hope is lost. If we follow past history, DC will most likely replace both Williams and Blackman with a new and promising writer, odds are that it will be Scott Snyder's apprentice, Margueritte Bennett since she has expressed a lot of interest in the character and DC certainly seems to trust her. However, this is not a cure, is merely a band-aid.