Punchy wrote:DC needs to realise that fans don't actually care about Stephanie Brown or any of the other missing characters, they just like to complain.
fieldy snuts wrote:Truth.
Falsehood. That's like stabbing someone with a paring knife and saying, "oh, he's not really hurting, he just likes to complain. Complain and bleed."
Unless there's some genuine, credible evidence to back up this idea, it seems more like SOMEONE "just likes to complain", but it's not fans of Steph, Cass, Wally or Donna.
They're not essential characters, they only really extra's that have gotten lost in the shuffle.
DC won't exactly wither and die without Spoiler and Cassandra Cain. Or Henshaw.
Depends on your definition of essential. Just because someone isn't the invulnerable demi-god that punches planets out of orbit, or can't force an honest confession from a hardened criminal with a glance, does not mean that someone is not essential to some capacity.
adamiani wrote:Sorry, man. But DC hasn't earned a lot of trust lately, you know?
Punchy wrote:Then why do you want these characters back anyway?
Because it's DC's failing, not the characters'. Especially when they try to kill them or turn them evil for no reason and it backfires. Dido, Harras, Lee, and even Johns should be learning that not every character has to have the same grim-dark badass (or jerkass) aspect.