Comments on: A (Perhaps Unnecessary) Guide to Oracle’s Formative Years http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ganky http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/comment-page-1/#comment-857811 Ganky Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:37:13 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/#comment-857811 .. And here we are in Sept. 2011, with Babs as Batgirl again! But at this point I don't know if it's with robot legs, some kind of surgery, or an editorial reduction of her original injuries. .. And here we are in Sept. 2011, with Babs as Batgirl again! But at this point I don’t know if it’s with robot legs, some kind of surgery, or an editorial reduction of her original injuries.

]]> By: KushCash http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/comment-page-1/#comment-52872 KushCash Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:55:40 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/#comment-52872 Great article, man! Great article, man!

]]> By: Patent Dragon http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/comment-page-1/#comment-52830 Patent Dragon Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:56:08 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/#comment-52830 Consider that comment seconded (thirded?), Patrick! Consider that comment seconded (thirded?), Patrick!

]]> By: Rebis http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/comment-page-1/#comment-52826 Rebis Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:46:52 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/#comment-52826 Patrick said it all! (Nice post, Brian.) Patrick said it all!
(Nice post, Brian.)

]]> By: Patrick http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/comment-page-1/#comment-52657 Patrick Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:37:27 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/02/15/a-perhaps-unnecessary-guide-to-oracles-formative-years/#comment-52657 Oracle is a really, really brilliant salvaging of a character, and it's a credit to Ostrander and Yale for coming up with that direction for Barbara. I wish more creators -- instead of doing the obvious and eventually returning things to the status quo -- would instead take major developments, even those they don't like, and try to think up interesting places to take them. Lots of times we see major changes reversed out of a sense of inevitability as much as anything else, and I think that's silly. If Ostrander and Yale hadn't taken Barbara Gordon in the direction they did, it's likely the character would just be walking around like nothing had happened today, and I think her, and the DCU, would be worse off for it. Oracle is a really, really brilliant salvaging of a character, and it’s a credit to Ostrander and Yale for coming up with that direction for Barbara.

I wish more creators — instead of doing the obvious and eventually returning things to the status quo — would instead take major developments, even those they don’t like, and try to think up interesting places to take them. Lots of times we see major changes reversed out of a sense of inevitability as much as anything else, and I think that’s silly. If Ostrander and Yale hadn’t taken Barbara Gordon in the direction they did, it’s likely the character would just be walking around like nothing had happened today, and I think her, and the DCU, would be worse off for it.

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