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Originally Posted by VonPooten

As far as Kate Bishop goes, she's fairly prominent now, but outside of Hawkeye and Young Avengers, she hasn't made a big impact, so it's understandable if people don't recognise her (much like Nico).



Nyeeh, I don't know about that. On a skin-deep level perhaps, but Spider-Woman has always been an oddball character. Werewolf by Night was a supporting character in her original series (much like Porcupine is in the current one), she's always been a PI/detective-esque character, and since Bendis brought her back into the fold in 2004, she's been very comic relief-centric and, well, "quirky."

Plus DeConnick upped that factor by bringing her into Captain Marvel, and I guess that's how Hopeless writes her currently. I do understand the comparison with Batgirl, though. Definitely. Although I think a better comparison would be Mark Waid's Daredevil, perhaps?

It's more in the marketing than in the execution. The Manara cover had horrible backlash, warranted or not YMMV. That, combined with the positive buzz Batgirl was getting and it's pretty 1+1. Spider-Gwen's closer to the spirit of what Fletcher and Stewart tried to do with Babs in character I think, but the design ethos being aped in Jess' new costume is pretty blatant. Palling her around with Carol actually doesn't help as it emphasizes the Kara/Babs relationship parallels.