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Notes: 6585 / 3 months ago from thecityofpaper (originally from mrcasanovak)
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Notes: 114 / 3 months ago from shobogan
[photo set: In the first image, Sal gestures to a wall of weapons, a young Helena standing beside him. In the next, her expression goes from wide-eyed shock to grim determination as he speaks to her. “Do you live your life afraid…running and hiding for the rest of your days…hunted because of the accident of your birth. Or do you answer the call of your blood. You can protect yourself, instead of remaining at the mercy of others. You can take revenge for your family. What will you be, hunter or hunted?” In the last, she’s holding a crossbow about as big as she is. “Teach me.”]
I have nothing against Helena Wayne. But this is my Huntress.
A traumatised, terrified little girl who took her destiny in a death grip and didn’t let go.
A young woman who saw her family for what it really was and vowed to take it apart, so no more children would hold their mothers as they bled.
A vigilante who fought with brutal determination, and a teacher who cared desperately for her kids.
A hero who craved acceptance and allies but didn’t need them to do her job.
A friend who finally found a home.
Independent and ruthless and passionate and callous and resilient and bitter and selfless and reckless and so much in between as she struggles to find a balance, to come to terms with the tragedy that formed her identity, to reconcile her ferocity with her faith, to learn how to let people into her heart.
She’s not perfect and she makes bad choices and she hurts the people she cares about, but she tries so hard and she’s done so much. She fought for the kids who fell between the cracks. She gave Gotham a Bat when most of her heroes left her. She gave Barbara another chance and Renee another partner.
She’s a Bat and a Bird but most of all, she is who she decides to be, and to hell with anyone who tells her otherwise.
So yes, I’m sad to hear that the Huntress we have now isn’t Helena Bertinelli, even if I’m not reading DC right now. Because she deserves to have her stories told.
THIS
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Notes: 11 / 3 months ago from randomfallsRandom Ramblifications: So long Helena Bertinelli, I hardly knew thee...
By now it’s fairly old news that the Huntress currently starring in the mini is Helena Wayne and not, as previously thought, Helena Bertinelli.
Firstly, I am saddened that I’ve again lost out on a favourite character. Helena Bertinelli now joins the ranks of Cass, Steph, Mia, Donna and Wally as…
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Notes: 77 / 3 months ago from bennygotback (originally from amberasphalt)
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Notes: 114 / 4 months ago from shobogan
THIS.
In the grand scheme of things, this change probably doesn’t rank with the others that have rocked comic book readers’ worlds. Breaking up Superman and Lois, returning Barbara Gordon to the Batgirl suit…these things have made and will continue to make the headlines. Helena Bertinelli no longer a Mafia princess? Just more cannon—canon?—fodder. It doesn’t matter how much this new Helena Wayne resembles the Helena I grew up reading. Context is all, and DC just erased it. I hope they’re damn well pleased with themselves.
[photo set: In the first image, Sal gestures to a wall of weapons, a young Helena standing beside him. In the next, her expression goes from wide-eyed shock to grim determination as he speaks to her. “Do you live your life afraid…running and hiding for the rest of your days…hunted because of the accident of your birth. Or do you answer the call of your blood. You can protect yourself, instead of remaining at the mercy of others. You can take revenge for your family. What will you be, hunter or hunted?” In the last, she’s holding a crossbow about as big as she is. “Teach me.”]
I have nothing against Helena Wayne. But this is my Huntress.
A traumatised, terrified little girl who took her destiny in a death grip and didn’t let go.
A young woman who saw her family for what it really was and vowed to take it apart, so no more children would hold their mothers as they bled.
A vigilante who fought with brutal determination, and a teacher who cared desperately for her kids.
A hero who craved acceptance and allies but didn’t need them to do her job.
A friend who finally found a home.
Independent and ruthless and passionate and callous and resilient and bitter and selfless and reckless and so much in between as she struggles to find a balance, to come to terms with the tragedy that formed her identity, to reconcile her ferocity with her faith, to learn how to let people into her heart.
She’s not perfect and she makes bad choices and she hurts the people she cares about, but she tries so hard and she’s done so much. She fought for the kids who fell between the cracks. She gave Gotham a Bat when most of her heroes left her. She gave Barbara another chance and Renee another partner.
She’s a Bat and a Bird but most of all, she is who she decides to be, and to hell with anyone who tells her otherwise.
So yes, I’m sad to hear that the Huntress we have now isn’t Helena Bertinelli, even if I’m not reading DC right now. Because she deserves to have her stories told.
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Notes: 1177 / 7 months ago from justanothercomicgeek (originally from duss005)
Missing only Alfred to be a complete representation of all my favorite Gothamites—er, plus Kara. (Heh, poor Batman.)
(Source: duss005)
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Notes: 312 / 7 months ago from discowing (originally from justanothercomicgeek)
by Harseik
lovelovelove!
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Notes: 700 / 8 months ago from dcwomenkickingass (originally from marcusto)
So I feel like I should get into the game, so here’s a little promo piece I whipped up quick to reminding everyone Huntress 1 comes out October 5th. Hope you all pick it up and enjoy the art and the story.
This is exactly what I needed to end the week. Come take my money right now. Look at this. Fierce, tough, no belly or bra in site.
Now THIS I can get behind. Reboot, you’d better get Helena right.
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Notes: 38 / 10 months ago from lipsofpoison (originally from falterdan)the rantings of a mad british headphone murderer: New DCU Barbara Gordon
All these arguments over her being Batgirl again or staying in the chair as Oracle.
Nobody has thought to ask “What would Barbara Gordon want?”
Lots of people have said that, and usually those are people who want her to be Batgirl…
(Source: falterdan)
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Notes: 26 / 10 months ago from cooltrainershells (originally from thehappysorceress)I can't see a thing in this bucket: Here's the thing
I’m watching the reports from SDCC & coupled with earlier news & announcements, it seems DC has decided they need a darker, more serious world for their heroes.
What’s missing are characters of hope & love & happiness.
The children are gone. Relationships are gone.
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I’ve held on through a lot of “crises” and reboots in the DC Universe. A lot of times I wanted to drop comics, but there’s always been something to make me stay - the irresistible charm of the Dick Grayson/Damian Wayne brotherhood as the new Batman and Robin, Stephanie Brown’s buoyancy, the steadiness of Lois and Clark…maybe not the things that one believes should define a comic book, but for me they were crucial. You can’t have stories without history, characters without continuity. I don’t know that I have the faith or perseverance for this next change, not when so much is being destroyed, undone, forgotten, and silenced.
Sorry, DC. I think you’ve lost me.
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