Vexed about Vixen

In the current Justice League America series, I am just not sure where they are going with the Vixen character. And I'm not sure they know either. While not quite as existentially cool as Animal Man, I always dug the access to animals connection and the African connection and her solo stories in JL-Detroit were one of the few high points of that era. I even enjoyed at the start of the current series, the way she would "call out" the animal as she took its aspect, almost challenging the animal for its power. Now she is little more that a poor man Synch (Generation X), "borrowing" powers from other members but it seems to be so haphazard...do they need to be nearby, can she store power, how long does it last? And if no one is around, she is powerless? And now there have been some rumblings that they are setting up the John Stewart/Mari/Hawkgirl triangle ala the cartoon...why? They seem to be taking a good original character and watering her down to a cliche. And don't we have enough of that in comics as is?