Because she was long dead at that point.
However, the Superman: TAS in 1997 finally got the general mainstream audience to take note of her again.
But of course the Linda/Matrix was no where like the TAS version.
Editors made him give her the white TAS costume though and for him to chill with the winged angel stuff because it was confusing to those readers coming from TAS.
Yes, Matrix split from her and merged with somebody else while Linda was nerfed.
Reign in Hell ignored that of course to depict their Linda with the fire powers.
He didn't. DC Editorial did. They were still stuck in that Byrne "Superman is the last Kryptonian period" state of mind. >When I first embarked on the storyline, I was told by the powers-that-be that I could use Kara for six issues. That was it. Six issues, no more.
>I hoped to change their minds. Because I was positive the addition of Kara would bring in readers in droves.
>What I was hoping was that support and interest for the series would be so major, so undeniable, so impossible to ignore, that I could use it as ammo to convince the PTB to change their mind and allow me to keep the character around. If that had happened, my intention was to turn the book into, effectively, a team book. The "S" equivalent of "Birds of Prey." Linda would have been Superwoman (for want of a better name), Kara would have been officially Supergirl, and I would have brought in Power Girl to boot. The tone of the book would have been straight up fun--three super blondes getting into adventures. In my truly demented best-case scenario, I would have subtitled the book "Blonde Justice."
>That was my "A" plan. Unfortunately, the lack of support up front torpedoed it. Had we seen the kind of support for issue #75 that we wound up getting with issue #80, and built from there, I might have been able to pull it off. As it was, I wasn't.
I honestly think that DiDio just straight up hated PAD. He came in and immediately insults Young Justice, goes out of his way to hamstring or not support both it and Supergirl and then cancels both of them in favor of a new Teen Titans book with all the YJ characters mutilated to fit into the Wolfman/Perez team while effectively writing Linda out of canon by allowing Loeb to bring in a new version of Kara.
Honestly she should've just been a brand new Supergirl character instead of a not-Kara.
Cassandra Cain was a good idea for a brand new Batgirl, they should've also made a brand new character to be Supergirl.
Fallen Angel was originally supposed to be a Vertigoish book set in the DCU so Lee (the MC) was probably intended to be Linda originally. But DC cancelled it and PAD took it to IDW where he introduced another character named Lin who was Lee's predecessor and had escaped Limbo. PAD obviously couldn't say that she was Linda Danvers but for all intents and purposes she was and PAD would later admit as much. Kind of like when Mantis showed up in Justice League as Willow.
Because she was long dead at that point.
However, the Superman: TAS in 1997 finally got the general mainstream audience to take note of her again.
But of course the Linda/Matrix was no where like the TAS version.
Editors made him give her the white TAS costume though and for him to chill with the winged angel stuff because it was confusing to those readers coming from TAS.
Hadn't she long since lost the angel schtick and was now running on heavily-nerfed Krypton powers (i.e. can't fly, only make big jumps)?
Yes, Matrix split from her and merged with somebody else while Linda was nerfed.
Reign in Hell ignored that of course to depict their Linda with the fire powers.
And then both got dropped in favor of the very short-lived Cir-El before DC just gave up and brought back Kara permanently.
Cartoon gays are always the problem
He didn't. DC Editorial did. They were still stuck in that Byrne "Superman is the last Kryptonian period" state of mind.
>When I first embarked on the storyline, I was told by the powers-that-be that I could use Kara for six issues. That was it. Six issues, no more.
>I hoped to change their minds. Because I was positive the addition of Kara would bring in readers in droves.
>What I was hoping was that support and interest for the series would be so major, so undeniable, so impossible to ignore, that I could use it as ammo to convince the PTB to change their mind and allow me to keep the character around. If that had happened, my intention was to turn the book into, effectively, a team book. The "S" equivalent of "Birds of Prey." Linda would have been Superwoman (for want of a better name), Kara would have been officially Supergirl, and I would have brought in Power Girl to boot. The tone of the book would have been straight up fun--three super blondes getting into adventures. In my truly demented best-case scenario, I would have subtitled the book "Blonde Justice."
>That was my "A" plan. Unfortunately, the lack of support up front torpedoed it. Had we seen the kind of support for issue #75 that we wound up getting with issue #80, and built from there, I might have been able to pull it off. As it was, I wasn't.
That wasn't Byrne's doing. 100% editorial.
I honestly think that DiDio just straight up hated PAD. He came in and immediately insults Young Justice, goes out of his way to hamstring or not support both it and Supergirl and then cancels both of them in favor of a new Teen Titans book with all the YJ characters mutilated to fit into the Wolfman/Perez team while effectively writing Linda out of canon by allowing Loeb to bring in a new version of Kara.
Wasn't Kara's appearance just the issue talking shit over her optimism and Silver Age physics?
No.
He didn't.
Hate how? PAD was fighting for Kara to stick around.
Why does DC hate Linda so much?
She's a reminder of one of the biggest character clusterfricks since the First Crisis, and one they would rather move on from.
Honestly she should've just been a brand new Supergirl character instead of a not-Kara.
Cassandra Cain was a good idea for a brand new Batgirl, they should've also made a brand new character to be Supergirl.
She's an earth born fire-angel merged with a protoplasm from another dimension that's not really what I'd call a "not-Kara"
Her backstory is confusing
She looks like the Supergirl they want, but she isn't her.
Could be worse. She could be Cir-El.
Thoughts on Fallen Angel?
It's nice that they basically let PAD take his character with him because DC sure as hell didn't want it.
Fallen Angel was originally supposed to be a Vertigoish book set in the DCU so Lee (the MC) was probably intended to be Linda originally. But DC cancelled it and PAD took it to IDW where he introduced another character named Lin who was Lee's predecessor and had escaped Limbo. PAD obviously couldn't say that she was Linda Danvers but for all intents and purposes she was and PAD would later admit as much. Kind of like when Mantis showed up in Justice League as Willow.
How did that series end anyways?