Comments on: Batgirl #2 Play-by-Play http://www.4thletter.net/2009/09/batgirl-2-play-by-play/ we like talking about comics, and hopefully you like reading us talking about comics. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AlLoggins http://www.4thletter.net/2009/09/batgirl-2-play-by-play/comment-page-1/#comment-27412 AlLoggins Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:53:45 +0000 http://www.4thletter.net/?p=4321#comment-27412 Emotional investment is the only draw a lot of DC characters have these last few years. Who would buy Teen Titans if not for it's legacy characters, cartoon show, or nostalgia for the Wolfman/Perez run? Batgirl is a legacy character for a legacy mantle, fighting other people's villains, continued from multiple storylines from at least four other books - I think it's safe to assume this is not a book for new readers but for long-time fans who know what the hell all these references to other books and stories are. It's just a pity those same fans seem to have a lot of perfectly reasonable beefs with the title because of poor characters, flip-flopping personalities, and even plain old bad pacing, dialog, and lack of direction. This would be a poor book even without Batgirl and the continuity porn. Emotional investment is the only draw a lot of DC characters have these last few years. Who would buy Teen Titans if not for it’s legacy characters, cartoon show, or nostalgia for the Wolfman/Perez run?
Batgirl is a legacy character for a legacy mantle, fighting other people’s villains, continued from multiple storylines from at least four other books – I think it’s safe to assume this is not a book for new readers but for long-time fans who know what the hell all these references to other books and stories are.

It’s just a pity those same fans seem to have a lot of perfectly reasonable beefs with the title because of poor characters, flip-flopping personalities, and even plain old bad pacing, dialog, and lack of direction. This would be a poor book even without Batgirl and the continuity porn.

]]> By: Terrence http://www.4thletter.net/2009/09/batgirl-2-play-by-play/comment-page-1/#comment-27406 Terrence Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:43:12 +0000 http://www.4thletter.net/?p=4321#comment-27406 Y'know Esther, your apparent emotional investment in the idea and character of Batgirl might here be proving itself not to be advantageous in any way shape or form. It might do you good to rethink it a wee bit, especially in the face of this particular comic. After reading it in the shop and then reading this post it's obvious it has three, maybe four, scenes/lines that are not totally cliche and pointless. It honestly makes me pine for a Batgirls of Prey type book done with a massive amount of compression and by a competent writer. Get Pete Tomasi off friggin' Outsiders and have him write that. Even better, get Gail Simone in here to write said book. In the end there are far more appropriate books/characters/concepts that new writers to the DCU can cut their teeth on than this one. Y’know Esther, your apparent emotional investment in the idea and character of Batgirl might here be proving itself not to be advantageous in any way shape or form. It might do you good to rethink it a wee bit, especially in the face of this particular comic. After reading it in the shop and then reading this post it’s obvious it has three, maybe four, scenes/lines that are not totally cliche and pointless.

It honestly makes me pine for a Batgirls of Prey type book done with a massive amount of compression and by a competent writer. Get Pete Tomasi off friggin’ Outsiders and have him write that. Even better, get Gail Simone in here to write said book. In the end there are far more appropriate books/characters/concepts that new writers to the DCU can cut their teeth on than this one.

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