Judd's biggest problems are that he doesn't do his research and that he often gives editorial what they ask for exactly as they ask for it. I'll be honest. I don't think Superman would be upset over Grayson being Batman. I also don't think Judd thinks he would. But I think editorial came up with that one on a dartboard and he delivered it. Same as "hey wouldn't it be a great idea if we could use the Shazam! logo as the actual caped hero's name finally....what if we switched positions on everyone in the Marvel fam...so we could...?Give it to Winick! He'll do it" I really do picture that. Maybe it's just a case of you do what your boss tells you. Maybe the guy just knows who butters the bread. But I think tying Jason's resurrection into Infinite Crisis was something you fight, not agree to, like everybody else fought to not kill Grayson back then. It's why it seems like Judd's gonna be writing Grant's Red Hood rather than his own, though I'd like to think some hat trick will be pulled at the end of this thing.
I also think his knowledge of Jason is limited to probably the trade paperback copy of A Death In The Family. That needs to change. I'd always made connections with some of the moves Winick made with Jason as being tied to the past, even if he didn't. I always wondered if he knew Jason's stepmother was a drug addict when he had Red Hood scooping up the drug trade. It made me wonder where that money was going and why. He needs to delve into things like "The Diplomat's Son" and how that shaped Jason. We haven't even had a true narrative from Jason on his mother's betrayal. And yet, I know I'm also trying to come up with a good answer as to why Ra's is supposed to be dead in Lost Days, and while something plausible can probably be given as a answer, it also hasn't. At least not by the writer. Also, there are things pre-crisis that probably should be used to be build a supporting cast---people like Bullock, Nocturna, even Jason's girlfriend Rena, these are things that could be shaped to the post-crisis incarnation that fits.Morrison did point to that era, but superficially, cheaply, because Morrison's take is geared towards a brief spotlight introspection not something that can work long term very well. The thing he did work out, which I respect more than I did at the time, was Flamingo, and what he is, a villain who is just too damn hard to kill for the vigilante who does kill. Silent, deadly, almost supernatural, whom Jason can yell "Shoot me! I'll come back!" to, as if he Jason is Wiley E. Coyote [Again, there's a lot Animal Man-esque stuff in that arc]. What do you give the guy who's willing to kill? You pit him against assassins better than him, metahumans, literal monsters, and enough random scumbags who also have enough personality that sometimes the story is about them and Red Hood is just there.
Winick needs to do that. He needs to take full possession of Jason. It's time.
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