arnoldoaad

a brilliantly written article about one of worst decisions of the New 52

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/columns/5912/whats-wrong-with-barbara-gordon-as-batgirl/

Its probably the worst era in DC in the last decade to the point that even Countdown is ashame of it.

now, there are some really good titles like Swamp Thing, Animal Man Batman and others but The idea as a whole is a complete mess

Milestone and Wildstorm´s introductions on DC were a train wreak, horrible redesigns, horrible new versions of characters, a broken continuity and a complete disaster on leadership and thats not even touching in the massive exodus of writers.

So yeah I dont like it

of course there was no Q&A!

Also I would like to add that BatVICTIMgirl has been the absolute worst title in the whole New 52. Gail completely destroyed Barbara and the whole Gordon family.

Not Richard Dragon

NU-Richard Dragon

Big difference

Lodbell´s run had a ton of problems but it wasnt as bad as this.

I think Tynion is a good writer but this book just got really unfun and boring with him.

I already drop this but now that they are tossing away pretty much all the character development that Lodbel, Tomasi, Winick and Morrison did with Jason thanks to this Amnesia BS and adding such popular characters like NOT-LadyShiva and NOT-Bronze Tiger, It really doesnt make me want to come back

saw the first episode and...

it was ok

It could be better though.
first of all i have to say that I like the new alfred but i dont like his design, its kinda like a bald, hairless and more british version of Batman: Earth One´s Alfred
which is great because i really liked that book but the design just feels like Bruce on Batman Beyond
I dont dislike the animation probably because I really liked GL:TAS way more thn YJ so I have no problem with that.

the design of Proffesor Pyg and the frog are pretty good too for a kids show
However regarding Pyg i had a huge problem which was his motivation on the episode: IT SUCKS!!.
basically Pyg is some kind of eco-terrorist who is punishing people for their treatment of animals, so he is a PETA vigilante...
I mean..
Why?
How does anyone read something like Morrison´s B&R and ends up coming with something like this, now I know it would be impossible to fairly translade a character like this on a ¨kids show¨, but making him animal activist just because he uses an animal mask is a very weird move.

Another thing that pissed me off on this issue was ¨THE GUNS¨
for those who dont know this, after the incident on Aurora where some crazy SOB decided to shot people on an screening of DKR the producers of Beware the Batman decided to...
I guess show respect...
by redesigning the guns on the show to something more ¨chidish¨
and WOW it is impossible to unsee, all the guns are bright yellow with no barrel and dont even sound like guns. Its really distracting.

The final thing I have to say about the show is Katana.
the way that she is presented into the show is not only good, but I think is Really good. In fact I wonder why this never happen on comics before.
the idea is not that that Tatsu is the new sidekick, but she is somehow the new future Alfred, and that is just interesting.

In comics there was this time during the BW:Murderer/Fugitive storyline were Bruce had to deal with this bodyguard who later becomes a sidekick, love interest and much later leaves him and joins Checkmate, I liked the idea but was never fond of the character, this is just way more interesting and brings really good posibilities for the show.

overall i give it an 8/10

The first issue and second issue were ok, nothing special

the third issue was really confusing and boring to be honest because part of it involved the plot of issues 1 & 2 and then suddenly and out of nowhere the Specter appears to do...

I dont remember, i just remember that he leaves and then the ongoing plot ends but I dont remember how or why.

I didnt read issue 4 cause as you can see from my comments i didnt care much for this story but I read very very harsh reviews about it, I think CBR review gave it 1 star and said something like this is everything everybody fear of the Constantine book, a pg-13 hellblazer, or something like that.

@themanintheshoe: a JLI that works was already accomplished recently

It was called Justice League: Generation Lost

and DC freaking ruin it by rebooting it when it was just getting better

omg this is so horribly bad

Commissioner Gordon

or, the guy who prohibited Barb to have anything to do with the police, which on part inspired Barb to become Batgirl(at least in her good origin)

is taking his daughter to bonding act on A SHOOTING RANGE!!!

If that is not enough he is telling his daughter to imagine someone real to shot at while she is using the gun.

Because that is such a great idea to do on someone with PTSD!

is...

I have never seen such a pityful and pathetic portray of a character who is supposed to be strong female role model.

This is the worst most whinney, worst written and stupid soup opera Ever!

how can this characters get worse?

I remember that one of the reasons for not doing an event with the new 52 this past 2 years was because DC wanted to "define" who this characters were and make "their" stories and etc

and honestly I agree with that line of thinking.

Except that such promised only lasted like 6 months.

It is true that there was no big massive event but with all the other crossover events going on Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, it seems that very few titles were given the space and time to tell their own stories and define what the book was really about.

For example Nightwing has been pretty much tied to Batman as much as GLC is to GL.

so a lot if not all the developments from the book somehow came from that association.

when NotO ended I remember reading this interview with Higgins where he was talking about making Dick Grayson into the "Prince of Gotham" and that he was going to focus on "the new heirs of Gotham" like the new generation counting him, Sonia Zucco and the assistant of the mayor whose life he saved on NotO.

WELL, none of that happen, and as Nightwing got trap yet again in another crossover event with DotF, it basically completely changed the status quo so that he could move to Chicago(why Chicago and not Bludhaven? Because DC hates Chuck Dixon).

And for a moment I actually thought that maybe MAYBE, now we will get something with Nightwing, about Nightwing. you know define what the hell is the book about.

WELL NO!

we need more crossovers, more stuff that is happening to him because of some big event, even including Forever Evil, and I know, I KNOW, that it will have one if not several tie-ins to that event.

My point is, Why the hell should anyone buy and read Nightwing, IF THE BOOK NOT ABOUT NIGHTWING!

and this is not a complain about Higgins, I think he is a very good writer, but the book has no direction, it reminds me a lot of the old Ms Marvel book that lasted for 50 issues and pretty much every single arc is related to a crossover event that had nothing to do with Ms Marvel.

I feel the same with many other books.

Does anyone else feel the same?