So Rob likes the cheesy Whedon stuff and Mxy likes the contrived soap opera crossover stuff. Both ala Simone.
Roger.
pariah likes roger!
to my knowledge, i've never seen a whedon book, movie, or episode, outside of the avengers flick. and that movie was fun, but nothing more. i defy anyone to relay what any plot point was! but, hey, 60+ minutes of fight scenes? i'll take it.
with the old BoP and new batgirl series, i just like simone's take on barbara gordon; her relationship with her spice-girl-power team, with batman, with her father, as the hub of the batfamily, as the hub of the justice league, etc. barbara is like this amazingly interonnected, yet sorta forgotten, character in the DCU. in the simone books, she became interesting. she wasn't just "wheelchair girl, who is now the 1960s batcomputer", which was the standard characterization. it's light, but solid, in a BTAS style.
the new batgirl book continues in the same vein. good continuity without crazy baggage, a sensical inner dialog, and a hero that doesn't always win. i imagine the current book isn't too dissimilar to the archtype feel that spider-man put out 30-40 years ago.
