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gemfyreSo, the DC Reboot has caused a massive kerfuffle in the comic book reading world.
Harley Quinn's redesign frankly sucks and is completely out of character and generic.
Dick in red? WHY??? Nightwing is ELECTRIC BLUE and that's what makes him so damn beautiful. *whines*
I do like Tim's wings. They're kinda funky.
But perhaps the biggest change is that Barbara Gordon will be Batgirl again. She will have the use of her legs again, after 20 years being written as Oracle, the brilliant information broker/hacker for pretty much any hero in the DC Universe. Despite being wheelchair-bound, Babs could still verily kick ass. She turned her fridging around (interesting thing, not only did she get fridged by Alan Moore, in that story it was perfectly in character for the Joker to carry out a deliberate fridging himself, just to piss off his Batsy).
Many reasons have been put forward as to why other characters, when seriously injured like that have returned to full movement, (of course, Bruce's spine-snapping at the hands of Bane comes to mind), when Babs has remained in her chair with a pair of deadweight legs. Whatever the reason, she has become an awesome ambassador for the disabled.
I was originally drawn into her story because earlier that year I'd busted my knee again and running and dancing weren't an option - now that I've done the other knee in a similar manner I doubt I'll ever be able to do the jive (a dance I particularly love) again, and I mostl likely won't be able to run at any great speed. Before I'd learned a lot about her I'd already created an AU storyline in my own mind. In this story she was crippled by the Joker about 10 years earlier (in her mid-teens) and was never Batgirl at all. But she had been an up and coming ballet dancer (cliche I know, but it worked for me), and the realisation that her legs were useless was the cause of a 'Year in the dark' for her, where she spent most of her time grieving for what she'd lost. But she got past it, she became Oracle and learned how to fight despite the chair. To be cliche again - she was inspirational.
I don't know exactly what DC are planning to have Babs back playing Batgirl. It doesn't really matter. I'm not as throroughly outraged as many about making Babs fully mobile again.
I think she deserves to don her cape and cowl again. A reward for being so damn awesome in the face of adversity. Oracle still exists - 20 years of comic storylines (and endless fanfic) isn't going to erase her, but she's lucky enough to live in a world where she can be reborn.
About the only thing that bugs me is that Cass and Steph might just disappear, and that would be really sad, seeing as I've only just got to know them.
But as for Babs, I'll wait and see before I get outraged.
Harley Quinn's redesign frankly sucks and is completely out of character and generic.
Dick in red? WHY??? Nightwing is ELECTRIC BLUE and that's what makes him so damn beautiful. *whines*
I do like Tim's wings. They're kinda funky.
But perhaps the biggest change is that Barbara Gordon will be Batgirl again. She will have the use of her legs again, after 20 years being written as Oracle, the brilliant information broker/hacker for pretty much any hero in the DC Universe. Despite being wheelchair-bound, Babs could still verily kick ass. She turned her fridging around (interesting thing, not only did she get fridged by Alan Moore, in that story it was perfectly in character for the Joker to carry out a deliberate fridging himself, just to piss off his Batsy).
Many reasons have been put forward as to why other characters, when seriously injured like that have returned to full movement, (of course, Bruce's spine-snapping at the hands of Bane comes to mind), when Babs has remained in her chair with a pair of deadweight legs. Whatever the reason, she has become an awesome ambassador for the disabled.
I was originally drawn into her story because earlier that year I'd busted my knee again and running and dancing weren't an option - now that I've done the other knee in a similar manner I doubt I'll ever be able to do the jive (a dance I particularly love) again, and I mostl likely won't be able to run at any great speed. Before I'd learned a lot about her I'd already created an AU storyline in my own mind. In this story she was crippled by the Joker about 10 years earlier (in her mid-teens) and was never Batgirl at all. But she had been an up and coming ballet dancer (cliche I know, but it worked for me), and the realisation that her legs were useless was the cause of a 'Year in the dark' for her, where she spent most of her time grieving for what she'd lost. But she got past it, she became Oracle and learned how to fight despite the chair. To be cliche again - she was inspirational.
I don't know exactly what DC are planning to have Babs back playing Batgirl. It doesn't really matter. I'm not as throroughly outraged as many about making Babs fully mobile again.
I think she deserves to don her cape and cowl again. A reward for being so damn awesome in the face of adversity. Oracle still exists - 20 years of comic storylines (and endless fanfic) isn't going to erase her, but she's lucky enough to live in a world where she can be reborn.
About the only thing that bugs me is that Cass and Steph might just disappear, and that would be really sad, seeing as I've only just got to know them.
But as for Babs, I'll wait and see before I get outraged.
