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I disagree a bit. She definitely wasn't super well written in the last two issues. But the biggest problem with her is she wasn't written, period. Tynion wrote her out in Victim Syndicate - and it was logical and I think well written at the time. And the first Spoiler issue of Tec, where she fights the Wrath, was pretty good. But the second time was much, less well paced, and I think it's clear at this point that Steph's story has gotten away from Tynion, which is what I was afraid of when he pawned her off on a co-writer last summer.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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Steph in Post-Crisis has two main characterizations: fun-loving girl with a big stubborn streak, and hard-edged vigilante with anger issues caused by her dad. Dixon was able to segue between the two pretty well, as her creator. A significant chunk of Steph's fanbase doesn't like her time as Batgirl because Bryan Q. Miller definitely leaned hard on the fun-loving side of her characterization.
I've been arguing this for a year now, since Victim Syndicate ended, that Tynion's choices for Steph are good, at least in concept, because so much of Steph's arc in the pre-Flashpoint canon was her being an outsider because Batman didn't think she was good enough. (At least, that was the narrative post-Dixon.) Now Tynion is writing a Bruce who wouldn't keep Steph at arm's length for these reasons, because Tynion's Bruce is much more emotionally open than most previous Batman incarnations in the past 20 years. If you're going to do that, but you still want Steph to be an outsider, you need to give her a reason for it - so Tynion gave her a complicated emotional and philosophical reason to leave the group. I think if he'd actually focused on it, it could have resolved well. But instead, he farmed it out to an inferior writer (who did okay the first issue, but the next two issues he really fumbled), and I think he's lost control of where her story should be going.
But in the first two arcs, you had the Steph who was fun loving, stubborn, and sassy - pretty solid stuff. Then she was torn apart by grief at Tim's death, and that caused her to be unable to see the good in what Batman does. So she left, and tried to do stuff on her own. I think all of that was pretty solid stuff. But it did set most of the fandom against her, and at this point, I'm starting to join them, because the reversal between this issue and the last is just incredibly badly done.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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Um. I mean, I'd also love to be in charge of the New DC Universe: Steph Is The Best company, but I think Rebirth in general has been pretty good. I think Tynion has just been hijacked by Metal/NOPE JUSTICE, and hasn't been giving Tec all the attention it needs with all of the plates he needs to spin.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
I agree. But he's Snyder's buddy, and they have a really close working relationship. So I don't see that changing anytime soon. I wish he were still on twitter, though. But that's probably why he's not - doesn't want a bunch of Steph and Tim and Cass fans all tweeting him asking him to make Tec his priority.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
Well, I take issue with the idea that he hasn't written Tim and Steph in character. I think there are plenty of moments, up to the end of Victim Syndicate, where he wrote Steph in character (allowing for new circumstances). And I think his Tim has always been really solid. I know there's lots of hate for "hacker Tim," but I really don't think that he's done it too much, except maybe Batman and Robin Eternal #1. His Tim in Batman Eternal was wonderful, though a supporting character.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord