 Andersen Gabrych, one of the writers of "War Games" and the co-writer with Bill Willingham of "War Crimes", claimed that "'War Crimes' was always as much a part of the plan as 'War Games,' itself...From the get-go, we knew we wanted to tell this story a year after, giving Batman, and (most importantly) the readers, a little distance from the huge upheavals of 'War Games' before we dropped the next couple of bombs.