It would've been a long goddam way to go for a joke, admittedly, but Steph's always been about doing stuff the hard way. :)

>Man, I miss Greta... No, it's for the best. She's a normal girl now
>and Geoff Johns has completely forgotten she exists. If she came back
>now, to DC-Pretending-To-Be-90's-Marvel-But-Lamer... Yeah, let's not
>even go there.

I was a little annoyed they ultimately explained her, for the admittedly selfish reason that I had my own notion and was disappointed, in my not very secret inner nerd place, that I could no longer pretend I was right. (This is as opposed to the reason I've never much cottoned to Wolverine Origin, which is just that I think some stuff is better if it's always mysterious.)

Which means if she does ever appear in UF it's going to be one of those "you think you know what the deal is with this character, but you so don't" things, like Darth Vader, that can be interpreted as a creative rethinking or as me completely missing the point depending on how much slack you're willing to cut me. :)

>In other news, I love the title. Super Secret Triple Encrypted
>Batmail. You can tell Terry and Helena did that, earning the usual
>glare-and-growl when Bruce logged on :lol

That's more or less why I figured Steph would be a good fit for the McGinnis Bat Cave: Like Terry, she's clued into the importance of what they're doing but congenitally incapable of taking it entirely seriously. I mean, yes, the stakes are often life-and-death and there's the whole saving-the-city thing and a lot of the time it hurts and stuff, but at the end of the day, they're dressing up as giant animals and fighting crime, am I right? :)

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