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Date: 2010-04-01 11:06 pm (UTC)And I'm not sure what you might mean that Holly was unique. In her few appearances she never even seemed to be a character, she was practically a Cousin Oliver.
I love Gail Simone's work, but pulling out the "She's my half sister who I have apparently always known about, but somehow managed to never mention, nor even suggest might exist, and whilst involved in a long term heroic partnership with a guy for whom siblinghood was of enormous significance to him" was on a hiding to nothing from the outset.
(I'm tempted to give her a pass because of the hideous Liefeld art on her intro story because frankly nothing good could come from that)