Tom King suffers as Commerce slays Art yet again

The consistently modern mainstream comics' practice of printing comics bi-weekly (Batman, Flash) etc would have at one time meant that comics were extremely popular and sales were way up. Remember the Silver and Bronze Age clamor for comics to go 'monthly' and the excitement when they did (X-Men in late 70s, Daredevil in early 80s). Now, it means that comics sell so poorly in historic terms, companies are desperate to make more money so they put out meagre-selling comics twice a month just to literally, make up the numbers. It's the opposite message, the fewer copies a comic sells, the more often we put it out! This would be ironic and funny if it didn't have such a negative effect on the creative quality of the comics themselves. As an example, as good and feted a writer as Tom King is, his 2017 ish to 2019 ish Batman run was needlessly inconsistent as the commercial demand for product messed with the creative drive to tell a good story. King does some really good, affecting stuff throughout the run which is undercut when he has to turn in filler to keep the coffers full. The ridiculous schedule also plays hell with continuity. The last 30 or so issues after the inexcusable bait and switch of the Batman/Bruce - Catwoman/Selina non-marriage are all over the place, particularly the City of Bane multi-parter. Companies such as DC, particularly for premium creators like King, need to strike a better, fairer balance with the creative load they put on their writers and artists. Batman would have been a much better, far more cohesive set of stories if DC had simply bitten the financial bullet and lived with a monthly comic.