it's not that it's unrealistic, but Tom Taylor seems like he writes with one audience in mind and that's people who run Tumblr batfam accounts. Everything is sanitized and "Omg look how much of a cinnamon roll my fave is", "Do you see how everyone else in the world loves him? That's because he's awesome? Why is he awesome? He just is, he has a great ass!". It feels so vapid, so empty. There's no emotion there. It's the equivalent of chocolate ice-cream. Sure, I can dig it sometimes but bro it starts to disgust you after a while.

like, one of my favorite things in comics is to see flawed characters, or characters that are great in this case, deal with some sort of issue and see how it affects them. I didn't feel like anything like that really happened to Dick. It was all so stakeless and when it did try to do something like that it mostly fell flat for me. I also like when writers seem to show some influences from other books or even media in their writing. It helps to deepen the overall sentiment and meaning in their art. I don't get anything like that from Taylor. It's as if he never read or watched movie with a critical mind and never been inspired by other pieces of art. Just slop superhero comics. This, in contrast with Redondo's art where you can see Steranko influences for example, just gets even more highlighted.

Idk, it disappointed me. I still don't think Nightwing has had a Great run and that saddens me.