Bertinelli or Wayne: the best Huntress is ?

[Captain Britain of Earth 20]

Who do you think is the best Huntress Helena Wayne ( pre-crisis or New 52) version or Helena Bertinelli (post crisis or New 52) version ?

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

I read more Bertinelli stories so I'd say her.

[MajorHoy]

Who do you think is the best Huntress Helena Wayne ( pre-crisis or New 52) version or Helena Bertinelli (post crisis or New 52) version ?

Pre-CoIE Helena Wayne was my favorite, but I like the others as well. (

And technically, I didn't think Helena Bertinelli was ever the "New52" Huntress. Didn't Bertinelli first show up without going by "Huntress" in Grayson, and it wasn't until Rebirth that she started going by Huntress?

[Captain Nostalgia]

Bertinelli was the Huntress I grew up on, so I have to go with her.

My first encounter with Helena was the Crisis where she died, so that settles that.

One of those demographic shift changes like Barry/Wally, Ted/Jamie ect.

[failo.legendkiller]

Bertinelli, no contest.

[Ruthborn]

Pre-CoIE Helena Wayne was my favorite, but I like the others as well. (

And technically, I didn't think Helena Bertinelli was ever the "New52" Huntress. Didn't Bertinelli first show up without going by "Huntress" in Grayson, and it wasn't until Rebirth that she started going by Huntress?

Apparently, in New 52, Wayne (Earth-2) showed up on Earth Prime and usurped the Huntress persona from Bertinelli who had apparently died. However, we later find out her death was faked as she was recruited into Spyral as "Matron". I wonder if Bertinelli ever knew about Wayne temporarily taking her identity?

As for who is better, I grew up with Bertinelli but honestly its like asking; who is the better Green Lantern Alan, Hal or Kyle, who is the better Robin Dick, Tim or Damian, who is the better Flash Jay, Barry or Wally. These are characters that were created for each new generation.
For my two-cents; Bertinelli better reflected the "Huntress" part of the persona through her hunting of the mafiosi. Wayne kinda stopped that after avenging her parents' deaths and gained a kind of Batman persona instead. Gotta love how the Helenas are the third lesser known girlfriends of Richard Grayson though.

[Restingvoice]

Send me their portfolio and I'll come back later

[MajorHoy]

Apparently, in New 52, Wayne (Earth-2) showed up on Earth Prime and usurped the Huntress persona from Bertinelli who had apparently died. However, we later find out her death was faked as she was recruited into Spyral as "Matron". I wonder if Bertinelli ever knew about Wayne temporarily taking her identity?

I only read that 2011 Huntress series as a tpb, but I didn't think that Helena Wayne had "usurped the Huntress persona from Bertinelli". I thought it was just the Bertinelli identity that she had been using during that run (and only then because I don't know if DC had definitely figured out if that Huntress series was featuring the Bertinelli or Wayne version of Helena at the start).

[OBrianTallent]

I grew up with Wayne as the Huntress and was heart broken when she died, but quickly fell in love with Bertinelli after the Crisis.
While I like the current Bertinelli, I kind of wish they had left the Earth 2 Wayne on the 52 Earth and when bertinelli needed a costumed name just let her be...the Matron.

[SixSpeedSamurai]

Bertinelli, great character.

[Stanlos]

Who do you think is the best Huntress Helena Wayne ( pre-crisis or New 52) version or Helena Bertinelli (post crisis or New 52) version ?

I started with the Helena Wayne Huntress in the back ups with Power Girl in the WW books. But it wasn't til Bertinelli circa No Man's Land and that glorious costume that I became an uberfan. I don't know that one is "better"--they have different dramatic hooks