As far as I can tell, both this redesign and the new "Batgirl of Burnside" are influenced by the success of the recent Ms. Marvel comic. I don't dislike the Ms. Marvel redesign, what I've seen of it, and I can tolerate the Batgirl changes, but this new costume just looks wrong to me. I guess I can't complain too much, personally, since I stopped reading anything but reprints a very, very long time ago.
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Current readers largely seem to like the changes which are taking place.
This new costume design at least does not make the character look like an elf warrior, a ninja, or an escapee from the GI Joe comics. So there's that.
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