WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??

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Tom Brevoort has a Formspring and he's actually pretty good at answering questions.

In his most recent batch of replies, he tackled things like the recent CATWOMAN/STARFIRE controversy and why Gambit isn't invited to more poker games.














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Comments

[newnumber6]

This, very much.

I mean, seriously. Despite the fact that, in comics, Babs has been Oracle longer than she's been Batgirl, almost as long as Starfire's existed, they claim they're afraid people who watch the cartoons/old TV shows/etc, won't be able to get into Batgirl because the name of the her civilian identity is Stephanie Brown, not Barbara Gordon, when, personality wise, they're not all that different (there are differences, certainly, but no more than the differences between any individual incarnation of BabsBatgirl... hell, one mainstream version of Babs was blonde and Alfred's Niece, not Gordon's).

Yet when there's an extremely popular version of another character that's basically completely different personality-wise from the way she's been in the comics, and pretty well the only version somebody outside of comics will ever have heard of, not only do they not do anything to attempt to harmonize her, they actually go the other way and sexualize her even MORE (and for Starfire, that's a tough job).