I'm also very excited to bring back the characters Harper and Cullen Row, who I haven't had the chance to write since the early days of my Detective Comics run. Created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo as a part of their New 52 Batman Run… The Rows were meant to give a different POV of Gotham. Disconnected from the legacies of the city's heroes and villains, but enamored with the idea of Batman, Harper would go out into the world and track Batman down and help him regardless of whether he wanted the help. Harper would go on to become his partner for a short time, as the vigilante known as Bluebird, before retiring to go to college and work at Leslie Thompkins' Free Clinic.
It wasn't until we started talking about doing a solo Punchline story that I realized that Punchline is, in a lot of ways, the perfect reflection of Harper Row. She's another ordinary kid of Gotham, but rather than her being drawn to the idea of Batman, she was drawn to the idea of Joker… And now she's out there, trying to spread the Joker's ideology, and we're going to see Harper watch that happen up close, helpless to push back against it. If Harley Quinn is Punchline's Opposite, Bluebird is Punchline's Dark Mirror… The story that starts in the one shot will start a story thread that will run through next year, setting the stage for big conflicts to come that will drag in all of Gotham's heroes.
Well....she's still better than Duke I guess. Frankly she should just be a Nightwing sidekick
Brandon Rodriguez
>that will drag in all of Gotham's heroes. A batfamily event. Must be a day ending in y.
Hudson Allen
Yeah, because the Bat family needs another tech (electronics) specialist.
Hunter Mitchell
How come Snyder and all writers can't create og characters to save their life? Court of Owls doesn't count because its a group. Is Damian the last good og character?
Jose Bennett
>Yeah, because the Bat family needs another tech (electronics) specialist.
Yeah, they have what, six of them now? Maybe more? It's the laziest gimmick possible, especially when the writer has no technology knowledge and treats it as magic.
Andrew Gutierrez
they're both shitty characters only created to pander to a particular demographic
Ryan Edwards
>imagine reading modern sjw american comics a faith worse then death
Jace Watson
Don't care about her but would enjoy a comic that was her brother being Midnighter's uncomfortable gay housekeeper.
Oh another Batman cosplay, just what the book book already filled with garbage needed.
Kevin Brooks
>Harper and Cullen Row, urg
David Gutierrez
Batman and Robin Eternal really make me dislike her.
She got allot of attention I don't think she deserved. It felt like the creators were in love with their own creation.
Jonathan Flores
, I don't like how stories with her brother tend to be repeating a message everyone already knows, I think there are already Batfamily members that do everything she does better than she does, I hate her blue Grifter mask, and she mostly appears in comics I already dislike. Also, dumb haircut.
Brody Wood
I didn't like her because she seemed like an unoriginal amalgamation of every Batfamily member who came before her.
Noah Robinson
We probably didn't need the story where a kid is bullied for being a minority in a northeastern megacity, but otherwise I didn't mind him. His overt thirst and adventure with Uncle Middy were fun distractions from Harper's shit.
Adam Myers
Shoved down our throats, just like Duke. Out of everything Snyder did for Batman, those two are his only negatives. Well, unless you count him completely neglecting Damian throughout the entire batman arcs...
Josiah Roberts
it CAN work if they start treating each one having their specialization. ESPECIALLY now Bats lost Wayne Enterprise and Lucius, so the Batfamily now NEEDS a in-house Mechanic
Nathaniel Jenkins
She's also suuuuuch a Mary-Sue. And I personally found it kind of obnoxious that Scott Snyder added so many supporting characters to the New52 batfam
Josiah Brooks
But that describes basically every Bat family member starting with the 3rd Robin.
Ethan Moore
Worst…Character…Ever.
Isaiah Morris
She’s annoying, everything in her life is awful, and Batman doesn’t need her.
Christopher Miller
It's all about that royalties. Eventually one will stick.
Logan Bennett
the MAIN reason I find her so utterly annoying is that, she’s so obviously being set up as a replacement Robin it dilutes and cheapens the loss of Damien who if Harper Row is the worst character in the DC universe, then he was one of the best/most likable. It’s like having your favourite TV show replaced in it’s weekly slot by a sport you don’t like, you might ordinarily have ambivalent feelings to say Rugby, but when you’re all settled down to find out what happens next in “the Shield” you go to turn it on and you find rugby has taken it’s place, that ambivalent mild dislike quickly mutate into an active hatred.
Jaxon Russell
I just finished Batman and Robin Eternal last week, and I liked everything except Harper Row. She comes off as a wannabe trying too hard, and frankly she gets on my nerves. What’s worse, is after I finish B&R Eternal it seems every comic I’ve picked up since has her in it, and she always pops in at the worst possible times. You read one issue, you can’t wait for the next, and then you get saddled with more Harper Row. I didn’t like her from the moment I met her, which happened to be in B&R Eternal (my comic reading is very sporadic). When it says Batman and Robin in the title, you don’t expect a huge chunk of it to center around a character called Harper Row. I knew going in that it was going to center around the Robin’s, and I was cool with that, because their name was in the title. My argument is I don’t feel the Bat Family needs any new members. And I agree, no way in hell could Harper Row even come close to being the best Robin of all time. That roles already taken, and beyond that I’d go so far as to say I would take any of the previous Robin’s over her any day, even the ones I’m not that crazy about. Harper Row sucks!
Blake Ramirez
y I don't like her. She is just a constant reminder of things that were done right before and aren't being done well now. Her costume also really bothers me, it looks like a cosplay of Nightwing. Plus with the fact that she can just become a part of the family and take on all the horrors of Gotham without all the difficult months/years of training is beyond me.
Jeremiah Collins
I don't really hate her, but I think she's a really unnecessary addition to an already bloated cast. There's just nothing interesting about her to elicit any reaction from me. Also not a fan how she takes out big name villains like Freeze or the Hatter with so little experience.
Also, is this Cullen Row character everyone keeps mentioning gonna be yet another Robin? Because if so...Jesus wept.
James Nguyen
Not a fan. To me, she just felt forced from the beginnin
Jaxson Moore
>and Batman doesn’t need her Somebody has to replace Alfred.
Justin Hill
Please don't EVER bring Bluebird back. There was no need for her.
Nathaniel Powell
Oh boy more batcharacters
Just kill all the non Batman characters at this point, DC. I know you want to so you can truly become Detective Comics Comics.
Just let her die. Or be forgotten. I hate that Cass is now connected to her through their past, because of that retcon bullshit.
David Cain died for this. Cass was massacred for this. Fuck this shitty and unnecessary character.
Ryder Sanders
No, he's just a kid who thinks Tim is hot and once got dragged into butler duty in Midnighter's control room when things went down and people had to fight crime. No chance of him putting on a cape at all. If Harper had been like him and just a fangirl who got roped into something, she would have been a lot more bearable.
Andrew Lee
Batman 101 is aTumor. And Tim fox is new Batman.
Blake Diaz
I don't get the hate for the larger Bat Family. Sherlock Holmes had several supporting characters that only popped up on occasion like the Irregulars.
As long as Batman isn't rolling around in a Bat Bus full of people, it's fine.
