I Read Stephanie Brown's Wikipedia Page.

[redbrunja]

Sweet fucking christ spread on a motherfucking cracker, is that a fucking trainwreck of horrible editorial choices.

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[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

And yet, Steph still manages to come up awesome. Well, right up until the part where she vanished from the universe....

This panel has been one of my favorites, lately:

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It's a testament to just what an awesome character and concept she is. Also, the part about multiple writers asking for her makes me imagine comics writers who are just as annoyed about what DC did with Stephanie as us, going 'LET US GIVE HER A STORYLINE WORTHY OF HER' and DC going, 'No. We fucked her over and we're not going to let anyone else fix our mistakes.'

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I heard that Grant Morrison even got turned down. I don't know if that's true, but Grant Morrison gets to do everything he wants. I mean, Grant Morrison got to kill Batman, and he got to put Steph in the first volume of Batman, Inc. by saying it took place pre-Flashpoint. So if they're saying no to him, they must either really hate her, or really not want to make a mess again.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I feel like Grant Morrison Multiple Continuities Soup would probably be the only semi-logical way to fix things at this point, actually, and if things went hideously wrong you could just blame it on "Grant Morrison never makes sense anyway, ignore him."

But that would mean DC loved us and wanted us to be happy. :P

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

So if they're saying no to him, they must either really hate her, or really not want to make a mess again.

I think it's the former.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am afraid it probably is.

[kerrykhat.livejournal.com]

Oh man, DC fucking hates her. Or really, Didio hates her and Cass, it seems. There was the stuff with the Batgirl cosplayer from SDCC 2011, right after the new 52 was announced, and adventuresofcomicbookgirl on tumblr has some particularly choice anecdotes from post-War Games.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I don't even want to know.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing she mades them feel completely inferior deep down in their man-bits.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

I saw a Steph Brown/Robin cosplay at the con I went to last year and I yelled to her "I love you even though DC doesn't!" The most depressing part is her Batgirl run was consistently on the NYT best seller list. Just like what they've done with Cassandra Cain, who is their best selling Asian character to date. DC really needs to get their shit together.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I saw a Steph Brown/Robin cosplay at the con I went to last year and I yelled to her "I love you even though DC doesn't!"

I bet that made her day.

[blevins.livejournal.com]

And how beautifully ironic it is that Steph is still, essentially, a queen.

That's why she's missing; she's too busy ruling over the universe.