DC Reboot: on not letting the door hit me on my way out.

[runespoor]

So I've taken to stalk a bit of Gail Simone's Twitter - I know, I know, how the mighty are fallen - and I've realized that there's one thing that would keep me from leaving DC, even if Steph and Cass aren't immediately* accounted for in Continuity 3.0.

*(I mean, there's bound to be a writer somewhere who's introduce them as cameos for the sake of nostalgia, right? And then they can slip back into canon! I know, I know, keep on dreaming.)

My exception is if DC writes existing characters as lgbtq. I'll stick around then. Gotta encourage diversity, and it'll be a very welcome change.

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[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I HAAAAAATE Barbara Gordon becoming Batgirl again. I liked having this strong and brave and fantastic woman being a hero AND being disabled. She didn't cope easily; she had to struggle against inconvenience and pain. But she damned well succeeded, and succeeded admirably. And she became the baddest badass EVER. It made me feel like DC really grasped the idea that a hero doesn't have to have a perfect body, and that heroism comes from within.

Now, suddenly, she's back in the suit. And running. And jumping. Her disability erased--either for short periods in the suit or permanently, I don't know.

It makes me feel like DC just slapped me in the face--as if Didio and his ilk had said, "We'd rather not acknowledge that handicapped people exist...or that they identify with Barbara."

It makes me feel invisible.

I tweeted some of this to Gail Simone. I bet I wasn't the only one saying it, either.

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Yes. Though I think this is giving Didio and the others too much credit. I don't think they're able of this level of understanding the consequences and implications of their decision, and I'm not saying that to be glib; I really don't think they get that decisions of fiction reflect on reality.

She didn't cope easily; she had to struggle against inconvenience and pain. But she damned well succeeded, and succeeded admirably. And she became the baddest badass EVER.
One of the best summaries of Barbara I've read in a long time, I feel.