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Published: 2018-12-09 00:59:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 586; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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I've forgiven or excused DC Comics for a lot of dumb ideas. The screwing over of this character isn't among them. Remaking Cassandra Cain was an unnecessary move among many unnecessary moves, and there's been little consolation since this mistake.You really want to write Cass? Write her like Flashpoint and Tynion's bloated fan-fiction never happened.
The above image was used when I did an unboxing for the DC Collector's Club Batman: TAS Funko box (www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9g-gV⦠). A very basic matter of cutting a square from a scanned cover and X-ing it out with the bar tool, intentionally made uneven like several swipes of a marker.
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Tynion has done a better job than others would have.
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I believe that would depend on what "others" we're talking about. Chuck Austen, Scott Lobdell, maybe. But there are plenty that could do (and have done) better with Cassandra and other characters. Kelly Puckett, definitely, and I'd dare say Adam Beechen did better (at least in Redemption Road).
I've heard mixed reviews about Tynion's Detective run, but since I still see that Orphan knock-off, it tells me that Cass' history has yet to be properly resolved. Not that I trust DC to be remotely competent with her since B&R Eternal.
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I liked Cass in his run but I was primarily reading for Batwoman.
Also they did take the time to show Cass is the most skilled in the Batman in that run. She gets several pretty badass scenes..
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Visually pleasing scenes are nice, but I'm someone that can't let that distract from fundamental narrative mistakes, especially those he could've easily avoided. She was already the best fighter in the Family before the reboot, so I can't exactly applaud him for the doing the obvious.
Anything I've seen from Tynion's Detective Comics run looked like either him repeating himself, or rehashes of [better written] pre-Flashpoint elements about Cass, but with *his* spin on it, which never measured up because of the shortcuts he's taken. Like he was trying to make *his* canon for Cass and the previous one work together (they can't), but didn't want to put effort into explaining *how* that would work.Β It always felt like Tynion was less telling me a story or developing characters, and more bullet-pointing his fan-fiction ideas. The old history "counts" until it contradicts what he wants, then it doesn't. He can't even write a mute character; compared to her original appearance, Tynion's version of Cass is quite the chatterbox from the get-go.
If you enjoyed his Tec run, I don't have a problem with that. Maybe, *maybe* he writes a decent Batwoman, but not Cassandra, one of my favorite characters, and she's often gotten short-changed before. As it is, she's still using a serial killer's name and her *new* origin centers on someone else because Tynion thinks he's a master poet, and that feeling supersedes making narrative sense. A cool-looking scene of her fighting a bazillion ninjas doesn't fix that for me, and I just don't have the energy or desire to keep forgiving DC for obvious mistakes. If Superman can ignore most of the New52 and other post-Flashpoint retcons, Cass deserves the same.
I'm sorry if I'm over-explaining, but I just feel very strongly about this.
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