Monitor2112
Paitent Padawan
I guess I'm blind because I am not seeing any smugness from the Batgirls...but then I am new myself and I am just starting to read through all the threads.Honestly, I joined after Batgirl was confirmed and so missed much of the other directional hate, but the smugness of the Batgirl-fanbase is starting to get under my skin a bit.
Of course, smugness in general annoys me, and Barbara Gordon being Batgirl is kind of a hate-trigger for me like '98 Godzilla is for Living Corpse. Just seeing her reminds me of all the cool stuff New 52 took away (ie. Oracle, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, original Birds of Prey, 90s Suicide Squad, etc.).
I've been trying to keep my mouth shut though out of respect for people who do like her, but the trailer today seems to have raised the smugness level to new heights.
I gotta say I was upset with the new 52. For exactly the same thing. All of the cool stuff they took away. Basically they just wiped a MAJOR portion of my life away. I guess it was time, Crisis on Infinite Worlds was over 30 years ago. The silver age wiped most of the Golden age away...so this is NOT new for DC comics.
However, with this and the Civil War nonsense at marvel after more than 35 years I was finally NOT collecting comic books. I still have not picked up any new comics...but...but...I have downloaded some and I am starting to read some of the New 52 with an open mind. It's not bad.
I am SO glad they brought back the Parallel dimension gimmick. It was the one thing that I HATED most about the 80's Crisis. I'm a big fan of elseworlds type stories and now they can be told again. I look forward to the time when some of those characters that got wiped make a new appearance.
I gotta face it...I'm just a comic book nerd.