“Without wishing to be rude, the bit you said about supporting more gourmet books was a red...

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Without wishing to be rude, the bit you said about supporting more gourmet books was a red herring. Most people accept that at the mo Steph can’t support a book. People are angry that she was taken off being a supporting character of a supporting character. And considering what Bryan said about how much it meant to write about her again, it seems like a whole bunch of spite over a small, financially unrisky,bone thrown to fans and creators alike.
— angrysunbird”





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I don’t think you’re being rude at all, it’s a perfectly fair question, and it gives me a little bit of pause. Hmmm.

I have to disagree a little bit about what ‘most’ people think, respectfully…I still see readers all the time saying how DC is missing a ‘surefire hit’ by not making Steph Batgirl again, which is pretty unrealistic at this point, sadly. 
However, I think you make a fair point that this crossover, small and out of continuity, seems very harmless. So, while I know the GENERAL thinking of why some characters are being held back for now, I don’t know the specifics. But I was very excited BQM got to put Steph in his comic, that made me really happy, and I’m also disappointed she didn’t get to stay. Anyone who thinks this is a good thing for me or for my book is very mistaken, it just makes people who resent Barbara being Batgirl over Steph in the new52 more angry.  I would have preferred it stay Steph, or failing that, that it be someone else entirely, definitely not Babs. But it’s not my book, it’s not my imprint, it’s not even my medium, and I am as uninformed about the whys of it as any other reader.  Bryan is a great guy and a great writer, we have been trying to do a (Steph-heavy) project together for ages.  But it just doesn’t seem to be happening right now. Dang it.