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Re Dawnstar and Shikari, yeah. I remember them maintaining in interviews that Shikari was not a reboot of Dawnstar. Alright then, but they certainly can't blame fans for thinking so.
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Yeah. I wouldn't say Shikari is a rebooted Dawnstar the way, say, Sensor was clearly a rebooted Projectra. She was just a new character who had almost the exact same powers, appearance and character relationships as an old one. I think DnA must have known that creating Shikari would therefore make the introduction of Dawnstar pointless and unlikely for many years. I wonder if they did it on purpose because they just really hated Dawnstar? As great as they were, DnA made some really odd decisions though. What they did with Kinetix goes down as one of the worst character butcherings I've ever read IMO.
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I hear you! Perfect comparison between the Jeckie situation and the Kari one.
And YES on Kinetix. They wasted a major opportunity there - they could have had her use the Hypertaxis energy up, and then develop into a more mature character as a result of her experiences.
It's sad, because their work on others like Monstress, Brainy and Garth shows that they're much more capable than that.
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The weird thing is that they got Kinetix so right in that Legion Worlds issue featuring her, and then took away everything about her that made her great when they zombified her (as if we wanted to go through that again after the Anomaly story).
But like you say - they got some other characters so right. Their Brainy is the first and only time I've ever really liked that character.
I think DnA worked best with a smaller group of characters and then got lost when they had to write the whole team.
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I disliked DnA's work so much by the end that I was excited for the Threeboot, but seeing how wretched that quickly became, I wish the Reboot had been given a chance to be re-energized under a new writer before they shelved it. I really miss those characters.
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