I spend some time today poking around girl-wonder.
I stopped reading the Bat books (except for the good-girl art books, Catwoman and Birds of Prey, because I suck) around the time Norm Breyfogle left. So I missed Azrael and the various event series that have involved things like plagues and earthquakes and gang wars and whatnot. I was, of course, aggressively contemptuous of anything named "Blüdhaven". I have very little idea what's been going on with the supporting characters.
It certainly sounds like, for the past few years, the Bat-books have been stupid, occasionally crossing over to flat-out offensive. Girl-wonder's particular bête noire is the death of Stephanie Brown, but nothing else sounds good, either: The sudden appearance of a teenage girl who's one of the best martial artists in the world, the rebirth of Jason Todd, Leslie Tompkins' unconscionable and out-of-character refusal to treat Robin (or any patient) resulting in death....
Is there anything in the Bat-books that has been actually good, that should make me want to read them?
Posted by Greg at July 5, 2006 6:06 PM