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"Maybe I’m hard on this book because I love Batgirl and I love Barbara Gordon and I just want her to get off this crazy train and come home. But to be honest I don’t think I’m actually asking a lot. I can appreciate “cute” and I can appreciate “fun” and I clearly like comics with very little substance (did you see my review of Batman Europa)?"

Yeah, um....OK. I guess? It's weird to me how someone came claim how much they love Batgirl and then cite her years and years of being treated as inconsequential as evidence of her great history. I mean, Batgirl had some great moments, but let's not pretend that she was a top-billed character until decades after her introduction. Let's keep in mind that the first Batgirl to get her own series was Cass, FORTY-ONE YEARS after the character was introduced. Being a member of the ensemble cast of the occasional Batman Family special was her previous solo material (and/or backup features in the 70s/80s).

I mean, I get if you don't like this. It's very different from previous Babs. But this is hardly the first time a new team comes on a book and changes a character dramatically in hopes of winning new readers or reinvigorating a character. I guess it just seems weird to be solid comic-book-guy on this topic...do they do it for all the others, like when Batman 'died', the current bunny Batman and so on? And if not, why not? Are they afraid that this might work commercially for an audience they aren't in and then it won't be theirs anymore, that it will ossify on the character and lock this version down?