I dunno, maybe she's there so the misfit variety pack of sole survivor aliens, superpowered showboaters and borderline insane vigilantes are provided some degree of validation by the presence of a fully qualified ambassador, war general and demi-Goddess who is actually performing a real job by being on the team?
Not to mention that every gang of lost boys needs a Wendy to keep them honest, and you can't have Supes or Bats beating Giganta senseless without someone raising an eyebrow, no matter how evil the female antagonist is behaving.
Wait, does this mean they're going to do something weird and have both the zero year story and the completion of issue 24's story?
I guess they could shoehorn bits of the original issue 25 into the end of the newly-expanded book, that might work. I'd buy the issue under those circumstances.
However, if I was being cynical I'd say the increased size is just there to justify the increased price, and together those factors are being implemented so that when the book sells badly due to fan backlash the editors can point to the price as an alternative explanation when the shareholders come calling. Usually I wouldn't accuse DC of being so cheap and petty but after the fiasco of pulling issue 25/26 just to spite the departing team, I no longer consider anything beneath their standards.
It's always difficult shifting from the eternally awesome Batman/Joker dynamic to focus on others in Bruce's rogues gallery. I haven't been interested so far (I've always felt part of the whole point of Batman was that his villains are physically weaker than him, I don't like the Bane/Kroc/Deadshot type enemies) but I will give it a look sometime after release when the price drops.
Kara's vengeance rant was wonderfully in-keeping with her current brash persona (also liked the way it echoed the reaction of fans when she got disintegrated), but it did come across as awfully wordy for her. She sounded more like Darkseid or Circe than herself, the phrasing was practically a Visionaries power staff chant.
Of course, the realistic version for New 52 Kara would have just been an enraged "RRRARRRRRRRWWWWWWGllpplhllh!!!!!!" so was happy to overlook the odd dialogue :)
Still wondering what the real point of Cyborg Superman's new identity actually was/is. I'm betting we now don't see anything from him for a long time, and next time he's back the writer will casually brush this whole weird episode aside.
I think the best thing to do is drop the book now and wait until we get what's promised in the interview - namely the going back to tie up loose ends after the so called "clean break".
If sales plummet during the Zero year and opening arc under the new team, then they might get the message.
SPOILERS:
Issue 24 doesn't just end on a cliffhanger, it ends right in the middle of the fight between Batman and Batwoman, with neither backing down and both readying themselves for a final round. If Issue 26 begins with something totally different and no end to the fight, then I'm not buying until I see the issue that does continue it. I'll skip the Zero book and everything after it until the story returns to the second half of that fight.
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