1.) The first answer to my Essential Question is to have a "connection". To be able to connect with a character might seem like an obvious answer to any successful story, not many people consider this when thinking about comic books. The flighty, exaggerated, sometimes insane characters cause most people to deny the fact that they connect to these characters. However, to make a story good and to make it memorable, you need to connect with someone in the story.

2.) One of the best examples that I can give to support this character is an article about a woman confined to a wheelchair. She thought of herself as someone who wasn't necessarily lesser than anyone, but wasn't exactly better. When Barbara Gordon (who was Batgirl at the time) was shot in the spine by the Joker and became wheelchair bound, this woman held a strong connection for her. Oracle was one of the most popular females in the DC universe. She was mentioned in nearly every comic at least once; she was the only "behind the scenes" person who could relay information to anyone at any given time; and she was in a wheelchair. Many people can relate to this story, while not in a strong way as the woman in the wheelchair could, at least in a small way. Barbara understood what it meant to lose her family; she understood what it meant to go through something so hard in life that at times, she didn't think she'd make it out in one piece; she understands what it means to love someone so dearly (Dick Grayson, the first robin) and then have that guy walk away from her because she was too head-strong. While she might not relate to everyone, that's the reason why there's more than one character in this huge universe.

3.) The article that story is from is actually from a anti-reboot article and one of the first that I looked up. Here's the link or you can look up number 5 on my Working Bibliography.