shame i liked that art too

>>81274454

Because Barbara is a shit character. They should just use the Dick Grayson method of having her play at being someone else in order to make the book somewhat enjoyable.

>>81274454
Because whenever they get dangerously close to making Barbra interesting, they do shit like in your pic.

they only started trying a few years ago, Barbara never had a solo comic before nu52

Make Batgirl the main Batman sidekick for a while and have a book dedicated to it like we had Batman and Robin for a long time, put a decent writer on it and you're more or less guaranteed some long-needed character development. Boom.

>>81274454
It's hard in general for characters that were pretty much defined as an accessory support for a major character/head of family like Batman or Superman.

>>81276715
Which is why neither Supergirl nor Dick Grayson have had good books

>>81276797
Jimmy Olson way back when was fun, but that's just because of the sheer (comparative) insanity of what Superman stories in general were like in the 60s and '70s.

>>81276797
True

>>81276797
Supergirl had a decent run for a while there before Final Crisis.

>>81276797

Yep.

Because it's Babsgirl.
Babs as Batgirl cheapens the entire concept of Batman. She lacks the pathos, and the physicality, and more often than not the smarts required to operate at that level.

Batman woks because he trained for like 2 decades. Dick works because he was born on a high wire, Jason lacks a lot of that, so he died. Tim sucks, and even he had to go on a two year world training tour and impress Bruce with his detective skills. Spoiler is a team joke character that, again, died due to her inexperience. Cass is a martial arts savant. Damien was engineered from birth. Even the goddamn butler tends to have some high level trianing and secret agent stuff thrown into his history from time to time so that it's justified that he hangs.

But Babs? Babsgirl is the one that goes from Halloween costume to caped crusader AND they ask us to believe that she's not going to get her shit wrecked like Jason and Steph did. But because she was first she's iconic so whatevs.

>>81277191
Jason at least has street punk going for him

Sexism.