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

[vass]

Yes. I'm glad that Willinghamfucktard called you in to write those few pages at the last moment, and that this then became canon. It's a shame Leslie had to go, and I *am* mad about the flushing out of female characters, but I'm glad she at least made a decent exit. But then, she deserves it, and after all, how else could DC have played it, make her into a murderer or something? (not that I'm suggesting anyone *would* write her that way, mind.)

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a shock to me too, considering how I mostly ignore his existence totally... but I guess he was worried about that brand of indifference spreading. *shrug* (And you don't *want* to know what his original brainstorm-ed endings were like. One of them involved bulldozers. And *unicorns*. It was almost as scary as the impossibility you suggest!)