Originally Posted by
millernumber1
I personally think that the ranking of DC's Batfamily girls is as follows:
Babs (RAGE)
Harley Quinn
Catwoman
about 100 places filled with empty space (to match the empty space in editorial's head)
Kate
about 20 empty spots
Helena
Cass
Steph
Reasons: Babs obviously is their fave. We can go into reasons for this, but I think we all know that it's because "iconic."
Harley is actually selling better than Babs, but she's so divorced from the Batfamily I'm not sure if she doesn't belong with Dinah in her own category. But she doesn't have "Bat" in her name, and since Connor and Palmiotti are leaving, I'm pretty sure she's going to drop significantly, though I don't know if she'll stabilize below Babs or not.
Selina is clearly super important to King and the main book (which is why I think she doesn't have a solo, despite sustaining a solo all the way through the n52). Since she's an antihero, I think she's probably lower in priority than Babs, but we'll have to see where she falls out during King's run.
The 100 places is also obvious. Because reasons.
Kate, obviously, got her own solo. And she's been a huge PR character for DC over the past decade, so I think she's definitely a priority for them. Reason I'm putting her below the 100 places of stupidity is because I don't think the series is getting the buzz or push that indicates it's really a priority for DC. That's obviously impressionistic, but just the way I'm reading things.
20 more places of stupidity.
Helena is probably going to drop below Cass and Steph once Seeley's off Nightwing. She's only up there because she's pretty close to a main character in two books right now, one of which is a really solid seller (Nightwing).
I think Cass is has a bit of an edge for DC right now because she's actually regularly expected to show up in Tec every two weeks. She's also gotten a bit more buzz at recent cons as far as I can tell in panels. Good on you, Cass fans.
And, of course, Steph. Now, the reason I'm not despairing, is because Tynion clearly has plans for Steph. But I think, much as I will defend it to the death, the current storyline for Steph as an outsider to the team really hurts her in the fandom, because a big chunk of fans are mad at her, another chunk is mad at Tynion, and another chunk is mad that they're not seeing her regularly (that one would be me).