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Yeah. I don't understand the deep hatred of Devin Grayson I've seen. I can't deny that the Tarantula run on Nightwing was a spectacular belly-flop, but - Gotham Knights? The Joker: Switch? The *rest* of her run on Nightwing? All good.

And the people who say Tarantula was a self-insert or a Sue are either letting the fact that Grayson is a woman cloud their judgment or have never read the definition of either.

A Mary-Sue is liked/loved by everyone, has an fantasy-style life, has a dark past, has hidden talents or powers, has suddenly revealed connections to the heroes, upstages the heroes in every way. Absolutely none of these things describe Tarantula.

You know who they do describe? The girl in a subsequent arc of Nightwing. She was hit on by both Jason Todd and Dick Grayson. She was a fashion designer! She had pretty red hair! Like Babs! She ended up being Dick Grayson's boss at his modeling job (!?!?!). She ended up having superpowers that helped save the day! While wearing the Nightwing suit!

You know why not one damn person called 'sue' on character? Or self-insert? Because she was created by Bruce Jones and he has a wang.

Check yourselves before calling sue/self-insert on female creators, people.