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II 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?

but that's not generally considered a good thing is it? If you're going to write someone so OOC they're like a new character why not write a new character? The writer is getting away with OOC behavior because it found an audience


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?

Yes. I am utterly amazed this question needs to be asked. I mean I don't even do fandom stuff and it's obvious. Maybe it's from the number of books I've dropped over the years from creative changes, I don't know.

Imagine I like 100% of something I read, everything about it is perfect

Now you come along and you only like about 25% of the stuff in the story and instead of dropping it you and people that agree with you push to get things changed and suddenly you like 100% of the story and I like 25%

Plus then people start criticizing the old take and possibly you for liking.

And before you say "at least it's not cancelled" cancellation is frequently better, because at least you can complain about it being cancelled and you don't see this character you liked doing things they wouldn't do and saying things they wouldn't say.

The reasons people dislike newcomers and messing with what's established seem pretty obvious to me and they're pretty old school