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So this preview for next week's Batgirl has been floating around (3 non-spoilery pages), and um adorable art aside, I don't think it is as great as people are acting like it is!





It's page two that is pissing me off right now.

This version of the story, narrated by Steph, ignores the fact that Steph was ever Robin. It's bad enough when other characters do that, but Steph herself?! When Steph does show up (in her own story!) it's as a girl with a ridiculous (unrequited, those are broken hearts crush on Robin. I mean, sure, I get that that's how the world saw her, but you'll never convince me that's how she ever saw herself.

...And it also ignores Cass completely. Y'know, Cass Cain? Remember her? Steph's best friend?!

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Date: 2011-02-20 10:36 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
'I objected to those stories, they made me quite angry, and I expressed that with my words.'
That does not mean you had to use the word you did as a response.

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Date: 2011-02-23 07:06 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
'All three "official" Batgirls mean a great deal to me, and stories that I feel disrespected and misrepresented those characters do not, to me, deserve to be treated with kid gloves.'
I'm not sure where you're getting the word 'three' from - Babs hadn't been Batgirl since COIE, IIRC.

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Date: 2011-02-24 11:07 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You seem to be confusing Babs as Batgirl (which is very different than Bette's first codename!) & Babs as Oracle. And Horrocks was miles better than Cass's run post Fresh Blood / OYL.

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Date: 2011-02-26 10:38 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
'But Barbara Gordon calling Cass Cain "stupid" should never have happened.'
Er, what? Cass had 53 issues to learn how to read - Babs was right calling her stupid.

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Date: 2011-02-27 07:16 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
'She lived with a librarian who works closely with a high school teacher, neither of whom apparently paid enough attention to her reading level to notice she didn't even know the alphabet. Also, she's a character with severe learning disabilities which stem from parental abuse.'
*facepalm* Oracle has better things to do than asking someone how to read books.

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Date: 2011-03-05 05:16 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
'Oracle is responsible for Cass' well-being.'
Cass is a ninja - why would she need someone to ask about her well-being? You seem to think that Oracle should use all her resources to fix Cass at the expense of everyone else.

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Date: 2011-03-05 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
'I almost never say this because it is a really awful thing to tell someone, but good god I hope you don't have kids.'
And what does the above comment have to do with your dislike for Horrocks?

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Date: 2011-03-05 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
'You are coming off as not just a jerk to me (the way you are saying things) but a terrible person in general (the things you are saying).'
Excuse me? I'm not the one going around posting things like "Goddammit Horrocks". And Babs said the word 'stupid' once during his run.
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