The concept has many options going for it, but the creators made it as bland as possibly could be, because Concepts Are Cheap. The characters are not well established, and many (internal) conflicts and issues they should be having are either forgotten, ignored or glossed over. They don't even have enemies!
Let's look at Isla Grace; the death of her father is met with... nothing. In many iterations of Batman (and Arrow as well) we see how the main characters cope with the death of the father, and how it changes them as a person to slowly become the vigilante, seeing as how their cities and burden from their (parental) pasts made them decide to act. With Isla Grace, she just shrugs it off and become a vigilante... just because, as nothing was established and shown to moved her in any way to change as a person. There is nothing that decided her to act. (or even contemplating about it - for example, she could have been roaming around as a fox as a hobby and see people suffering) But no, she has no motivation for her actions except "I believe in justice". This should have been contemplated in depth, yet we get nothing.
Another problem is the genesis of her powers. Her last name implies a lot, and the established lore states she has fox genes inside her. Okay, so what has the ring got to do with anything? just coincidence or meant to be? This is contrived beyond belief; just having a ring from a grandparent or inheritance and deciding to wear it and causing an activation of her powers would do the trick.
See what I'm getting at? The idea of her being a fox/half-fox/woman and her life as a vigilante is an awesome idea, but executed poorly. These are other problems I kept thinking about:
- the baby, except for it being born, seems unimportant to Isla Grace. It seems like she doesn't even think about her own child. She could die, doesn't she even care she could leave the child motherless? Wait, isn't the child also supposed to be part fox? Did her transforming while she was pregnant have any effect? Guess not.
- Everyone around her seems to figure out her real identity within just a few pages. That screws up the idea of a secret identity
- Why the whole army-like spec ops thing? What is the point? 'Just because I like justice' makes no sense, seeing how she could be used for ill purposes.
And here the biggest one:
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body. She's part fox in her genes, so why is she not becoming more fox-like? Except for the taco's scene it didn't play up anywhere. Not that she would become a fox completely, but partially; half herself, half the fox. This is not that she would want to run away and be a fox (although that could be part of it), but that she changes so much in personality that it strains her relationship with her husband, those around her, the way she handles situations (e.g. principles) and so on.
Many opportunities, wasted potential
The concept has many options going for it, but the creators made it as bland as possibly could be, because Concepts Are Cheap. The characters are not well established, and many (internal) conflicts and issues they should be having are either forgotten, ignored or glossed over. They don't even have enemies!
Let's look at Isla Grace; the death of her father is met with... nothing. In many iterations of Batman (and Arrow as well) we see how the main characters cope with the death of the father, and how it changes them as a person to slowly become the vigilante, seeing as how their cities and burden from their (parental) pasts made them decide to act. With Isla Grace, she just shrugs it off and become a vigilante... just because, as nothing was established and shown to moved her in any way to change as a person. There is nothing that decided her to act. (or even contemplating about it - for example, she could have been roaming around as a fox as a hobby and see people suffering) But no, she has no motivation for her actions except "I believe in justice". This should have been contemplated in depth, yet we get nothing.
Another problem is the genesis of her powers. Her last name implies a lot, and the established lore states she has fox genes inside her. Okay, so what has the ring got to do with anything? just coincidence or meant to be? This is contrived beyond belief; just having a ring from a grandparent or inheritance and deciding to wear it and causing an activation of her powers would do the trick.
See what I'm getting at? The idea of her being a fox/half-fox/woman and her life as a vigilante is an awesome idea, but executed poorly. These are other problems I kept thinking about:
- the baby, except for it being born, seems unimportant to Isla Grace. It seems like she doesn't even think about her own child. She could die, doesn't she even care she could leave the child motherless? Wait, isn't the child also supposed to be part fox? Did her transforming while she was pregnant have any effect? Guess not.
- Everyone around her seems to figure out her real identity within just a few pages. That screws up the idea of a secret identity
- Why the whole army-like spec ops thing? What is the point? 'Just because I like justice' makes no sense, seeing how she could be used for ill purposes.
And here the biggest one:
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body. She's part fox in her genes, so why is she not becoming more fox-like? Except for the taco's scene it didn't play up anywhere. Not that she would become a fox completely, but partially; half herself, half the fox. This is not that she would want to run away and be a fox (although that could be part of it), but that she changes so much in personality that it strains her relationship with her husband, those around her, the way she handles situations (e.g. principles) and so on.