Scans_Daily

The non-success of the Batgirl mini at least meant we were spared more of Beechan wrecking her.

I am still mystified why they gave him a Cassandra Cain mini-series (the one single writer most likely to piss off the fanbase that would buy anything with Cass in it), I have heard some people think it was DC (and Beechan)'s way for trying to make up for Evil Cass...but I ain't buying. DC rarely openly "apologizes" for any bad editorial move (if they did the Marvel Family or Wonder Woman might be first in line) and Beechan seemed more determined to do a "Take That" to his detractors and try to justify every single screw-up he made (hence the many Walls of Exposition) than to do a heroic super-hero story to redeem Cass. I mean when the very first thing he has her do is going back to KILLING people (especially her father who she loves in anything non-Beechan written) then you start with fail and go down from there. It's no wonder that the Batgirl mini-series only started tanking after the first issue was released. The first issue itself had numbers comparable to the end of Cass's series (20,000+) despite the fact Beechan was writing it.

And going back to Beechan not doing his homework on the character (what was his excuse this time), Cass is a slob, she throws things all over the place, no place she slept for any length of time (even for just a few hour) would look neat and un-lived in. Alfred knows this - he's the one who usually cleaned up after her (both when she had her own Batcave and when Bruce gave her an apartment). Her messiness was one of her more consistent traits...until Beechan started writing her.