LBFA Presents: What's Your Greatest Christmas Wish? [Original Comic]

To what purpose? I'm 100% serious. What purpose would bringing her back serve? What potential stories are there that can only be told if Alex DeWitt is alive again? What title is no longer on shelves because Alex DeWitt is dead? These characters exist to tell stories, nothing more, nothing less. There's no morality to these deaths, no good, no evil, just stories.

Yep. Huge mistake that helped illustrate how out of touch DC were with the changing market sensibilities of an audience whose attitudes were - despite what critics of Teh Internetz fanboyz would like you to believe - maturing. Though killing Stephanie Brown was arguably bigger in that it led to the creation of Girlwonder.org. A great deal of post-GW criticism of comic book portrayals of women and sexual violence was also directed specifically towards DC, so I'd call that a big mistake in the long run, possibly only topped by their thinking that unkilling Stephanie and pretending that this was the plan all along would somehow make all the angry feminists go back to the kitchens and strip clubs where they belonged.