I'm very happy for the team for getting nominated for an Eisner Award but it was nominated in Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17). I have not been in that age bracket for 5 years. Even when I was 17 year old girl I was reading Hellblazer and had a crush on Constantine so people will read what is ever out there, but things like Squirrel girl and Gotham Academy can be a part of the trend for the younger ages. they can make it work for other characters, but this is Barbara Gordon.
Now the whole dating element is getting annoying. Now this might sound super weird but I hate the desexualisation of her, and I'm not talking about T&A in the art (I support the lack of unnecessary boobage and heels aspect in her costume) nor a sex life per se, but her whole dating life is PG, and I don't need R of course or in any sense, but I'm talking about how all her relationships are cutsie and only have kisses, her dating life and mishaps are something you would see on the Disney Channel if that makes sense and it feels episodic and self contained so there's no progression in the future. Nightwing and Shawn, Dinah and Oliver, all Barbara contemporaries are afforded a level of a mature approach (I'm talking given some depth) to relationships. You can't get attached to Barbara's love interest because they don't last or they're hyper boring. It's comical and reads like a Lizzie Macguire level sort of romance. And because the dating element is so prominent in her title, it's just very noticeable for me. And Barbara is a grown as$ woman, I mean at 21 I was not acting like I was 14 in my approach to dating. Like I can handle a lot but not a half-arsed approached to a dating life in comic and especially for Barbara, who's known for trust issues and doesn't put up with BS and then I look at her last 2 love interests Kai and Ethan and then I have to question how they're approaching Barbara's mindset.
I like Larsen as a writer, and if this weren't Babs, I wouldn't have a problem.