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Batgirl And Mad Max Furiosa Get Second Prints, Despite Controversies

Last week's Batgirl #41 saw Barbara Gordon go up against her dad as the new Batman. And for those who thought that the controversy over the non-existent Joker cover may harm sales, that doesn't seem to be the case.

The comic has sold out, fast and gone to second print.

And, with controversy over the Mad Max Furiosa comic book hitting the internet hard…

But where the movie made an active effort to get things right with its female characters—even bringing inVagina Monologues author Eve Ensler to consult—when it came time to make a comic book, the story got turned over to an all-male team that immediately introduced a rape backstory to "motivate" its main female character, Furiosa, and immediately put the previously off-screen rapes in the comic. – Laura Hudson, Wired

Furiosa #1 gets all of this characterization spectacularly wrong, and more. First of all, it's a comic inherently about rape. Unlike Fury Road, which was praised for not highlighting or dwelling on the sexual abuse that was part of its female characters past, the comic's dominant focus is on that sexual abuse, to the point that the fact these women were raped by Immortan Joe almost becomes their defining characteristic. – James Whitbrook, io9

Being a "kept woman" is not freedom. Nothing that is free is "kept," and a gilded cage is still a cage. And people understand that.We understood that in the Fury Road film! So the fact that Sexton says, without showing the rape, that readers might think the Wives are "spoilt girls whining about being kept…" disproves his own point about the need for the rape scene at all! Because without it, you still get a sense of women being "kept" somewhere. "Kept" is not freedom.

And so, it saddens me that the guy in charge of shepherding the Fury Road comic so fundamentally misunderstands his own source material. Theresa Juriso, The Mary Sue

… that doesn't seen to have harmed sales either and DC Comics have also sent that book back for a second printing as well.

It's a cliché that controversy sells. It may be more accurate here, as these would have been popular comics anyway, that controversy doen't put the damper on sales, where ever it's coming from.

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