Reaction to April being a drawing

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Originally Posted by Pterobat

And loading her with new gimmicks is an extension of that. April doesn't have to be a ninja in training, or a living drawing, in order to be interesting, but it seems that she keeps having to be something besides an ordinary person, because writers don't know what to do with her otherwise.

Which is 1) true, but also 2) weird, because her two best story lines (Vol. 1 #11 and "City at War") are all about her being a normal person reacting the way a normal person would to the craziness around her. I wish Mirage, which wasn't adverse to these type of material, had embraced the appeal of her slice-of-life stories more often.