Comments on: Goodbye, Helena

By: Jose Ocasio

Jose Ocasio — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:52:25 +0000

Helena Wayne was always my favorite Huntress…glad she was brought back to the role she was created for!

By: Simon DelMonte

Simon DelMonte — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:19:25 +0000

When DC first recreated Helena, she was rather underwhelming to me. Joey Cav took the name of the character and little else, and came up with a premise that was really hard to swallow. She had nothing to do with Batman, and was only noteworthy for being a female hero with her own book. Which ended fast. And then she was shoehorned into JLI/A.

It was only years later that she was retconned to be from Gotham, and then connected more firmly to Batman by Rucka in his memorable miniseries with Rick Burchett. Only after that huge reworking did she come to life for me. And while some other writers did well with her, Rucka was pretty much the only one who kept her consistently interesting to me. Though I did like Gail’s impossible romance between Huntress and Catman.

I guess I will miss the version being replaced as of now. But this would sting a lot more if I felt like Rucka was ever likely to write her again.

By: CagedLeo730

CagedLeo730 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:12:19 +0000

@hhbx I think it’s the fact that this Huntress was actually a Robin back on Earth 2, means that Helena Bertenelli isn’t necessarily her main Earth counterpart. The exact doppelganger would be Damian Wayne. Helena Bertenelli could exist on main Earth but she could just be a regular person. I doubt that DC will have 2 doppelgangers on the same Earth at the same time so early on.

By: hhbx

hhbx — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:03:52 +0000

So people are getting mad and saying goodbye because the Earth-2 Huntress is Helena Wayne and not Bertinelli? And so because she’s from Earth-2 there can’t be a regular version of her on DC’s main Earth?
I feel like I’m missing something here.

By: Mo Walker

Mo Walker — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:08:33 +0000

Personally, I always thought the H.B. Huntress possessed a lot of moxy! I loved the Nightwing/Huntress mini that Devin Grayson wrote back in the late 90s. The comic that made me fall in love with H.B. was the Greg Rucka/Rick Burchett collaboration, Cry for Blood mini. I will miss the character, but I am also a fan of Helena Wayne.

@Graeme – Have you ever read a comic drawn by pre-Crossgen Greg Land and Bill Sienkiewicz? It sounds unorthodox but it worked.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:07:17 +0000

So long, don’t let the door hit you. I found her to be one of the most obnoxious characters in comics and almost always brought down my enjoyment of any comic that she was in.