There was a Crisis. IN MY BRAIN.

[odditycollector]

 
So, everyone was crying foul this week about Batman 644. I hadn't been following the storyline at all, but I was a little bit a masochist curious, so I read though it this evening.

And? It wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be.

The offending pages, for anyone without access to my brain... or at least my Photoshop:











So, yes, I'll miss Leslie too, but really? The above seems like a fair extrapolation of her character. After Steph's death, she realizes she's not helping anything in Gotham and goes somewhere where she *can*. It's not all that well written, I'll admit; the dialogue doesn't flow naturally, and it's hard to follow. However... it's not as bad as most of what Willingham's done in the Batbooks. I don't think he *gets* Leslie, but I've very, very rarely seen anyone who *does*. Bruce comes off as even more of a psycho than usual, but I can almost believe it of him at this point in time.

If you're just complaining because it seems like DC is flushing out all the female characters, yeah, I'm right with you. But it's not like it was character assassination, you know?


Honestly. To listen to the outcry, you'd think you guys all read a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT comic or something. Geez.

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Comments

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish DC had done it this way.

This is my Leslie. This is my Bruce.

Thank you for taking the effort to make this. Batman #644 was so NOT my Leslie and NOT my Bruce.

I thought your dialogue was good. I see no reason why it couldn't have gone down this way. Unfortunately, it didn't (with DC I'm not very good at pretending canon isn't canon. This doesn't stop me from enjoying the fanon).

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

I thought your dialogue was good. I see no reason why it couldn't have gone down this way. Unfortunately, it didn't (with DC I'm not very good at pretending canon isn't canon. This doesn't stop me from enjoying the fanon).
Thanks!

Yeah, I know what you mean. If I'm writing fic or something in the Batverse, I'm more likely to ignore the canon I don't like than use it... but I'm very unlikely to use something else (like this) instead.

In my head, however, it's a different story. And I honestly believe it's only a matter of time until DC fixes this mess anyhow.