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Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl… this character had played a number of roles in Batbooks over the years but fans believed she had repeatedly received short shrift from DC Comics And recently in the DC New 52, she vanished completely and was replaced as Batgirl by Barbara Gordon. Then, recently, it was announced that Stephanie Brown would be[...]

I hope Dan DiDio has a lot of maple syrup in the DC Offices. Fans of the DC character Stephanie Brown, whether as Spoiler, Robin or Batgirl, feel that they have been hard done by over the years Amateur crime fighter Spoiler, then Robin, then dead Robin, then revived Batgirl where she starred in her own[...]

Robin, Jason Todd, died, and Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, was crippled. But then these are comics Jason Todd comes back to life and now as Red Hood leads The Outlaws. And Barbara became Oracle, and then Batgirl again, her revival ascribed to a procedure in South Africa. And DC's Zero Month looks likely to revisit all those experiences[...]

BatgirlWatch: DC seem to have a Stephanie Brown Batgirl by mistake on their New 52 Batgirl info page… GunWatch: Cobie Smulders, who plays gun toting Canadian Robin in How I Met Your Mother is actually scared of guns… so had to do some prep for the movie…  She hired a guy who trains SWAT teams. "I was also[...]

I get to do some character stuff with Jeremiah Arkham." Kind of an odd correction there. Bob Harras moves so that Gail Simone can sit at the table. Batgirl: Gail gets a huge applause She praises the Night of the Owls concept "Barbara is starting to put her past behind her and she will be moving into[...]

On Friday, DC editorial types were stating that there were no more plans for Stephanie Brown, previously Robin, Batgirl and Spoiler in the old DCU, in current books. They were lying. Yesterday evening at ECCC, DC Comics announced that joining The Robins by Jeff Lemire in the expected Third Wave of New DC books towards the end[...]

This could very well be the best comic you read this week. The new issue of Batgirl makes it incredibly clear, if it wasn't so before, that this run is steeped in The Killing Joke In fact, if they called it After Killing Joke: Batgirl, they may even have increased sales Because that is totally where[...]

It would save a hell of a lot of arguments. Gail Simone continues to not only explore the ramifications of The Killing Joke on Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, but also explore the themes of the original, featuring the origin of Gretel, steeped in abuse, both violent and sexual The Killing Joke has the Joker try and replicate[...]

It was doing my head in, and I was reading too many comics that I just didn't like, which is never good for the soul. But if I was still doing them, then this scene from this week's Batgirl would certainly have made it in In the light of the Occupy protests, we've joked about the[...]

Batgirl #1 was more controversial before publication than afterwards Bringing back Barbara Gordon to the lead role, it took her out of the wheelchair and lost DC its most prominent disabled character However, this was mollified by Batgirl#1 being really good, and the transformation in Barbara being directly addressed, and her history very much being[...]

Batgirl, it seems, presented quite a challenge Here are a few examples from his website.       Rian Hughes is best known by many as the artist on Grant Morrison's Dare But these days his influence is all around us, a specialist in design, logos, and commenrcial illustration Which happens to include a[...]

Guess which ones they are? I talked about the new Batgirl earlier and how smart it is, so there's only one more thing I want to say about this issue Want to commit a crime in Gotham? There's an app for that. Batwoman is beautiful JH Williams III continues to provide us with a book just just[...]

Find reasons not to address it. But with DC's Batgirl-out-of-the-wheelchair, this comic seems to revel in rubbing the reader's nose in it To bring the issue up at every opportunity And to tease, repeatedly tease that Barbara gained the use of her legs by a "miracle" – and then only giving us the most meager of details, even[...]

One international team that is doing well is Stormwatch, with sales of Stormwatch #1 going for $9.99 and $7.39 in two sales over the past week. As Rich reported last month, Batgirl #1 had hit a high of $6 but was coming back down There were three sales over the weekend for $5, but there were[...]

And now we have Woman Woman versus  Cassandra Cain Batgirl with Greg Rucka, Bryan Q Miller, Dana Delaney and Gail Simone showing their support The final vote runs until 9pm EST/6pm PT/2am GMT. Meanwhile Aspen is finishing its vote to design the cast of the upcoming comic Idolized by David B Schwartz and Micah Gunnell[...]

Easy access. In Superboy #3, we get closer and closer to a full admission that we're dealing with a fullblown Gen 13 Caitlin Fairchild… and by the end… Gail Simone seems to make comment on the Starfire and Red Hood And The Outlaws with a little well places graffiti in Batgirl #3 While using the very contriversy[...]

The hottest rumour burning down the pre-NYCC parties is that Gail Simone, co-writer of DC Relaunch title  Fury Of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men with Ethan Van Sciver, has walked off the comic. The reason being given by the Manhattan tittle tattlers is over editorial conflicts over the book, the kind of thing alluded to here. This only[...]

Bleeding Cool understands that both Batgirl #1 and Action Comics #1 will get third prints, to arrive in stores for October 12th Just a with the second prints, Batgirl and Action Comics third prints will get a common colour theme. They join Justice League #1 and Justice League Combo #1 in third prints. Something tells me a[...]

Eric Glover has written on the subject of disability and Batgirl in two articles for Bleeding Cool, Give Batgirl The Chair and Batgirl And The Legion Of Sadistic Disability Fetishists He has now read Batgirl #1. With Batgirl #1 now on shelves and DC's decision to undo Barbara Gordon's paralysis finally executed, the curtain has been[...]

But it's the one I am most disappointed by. Batgirl #1 by Gail Simone Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes Very possibly the best title published by DC today And not one I was expecting either Firstly we have a central character whose internal voice and external voice differ, oppose, fight with[...]

But Batgirl #1 by Gail Simone, Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes with a cover by Adam Hughes is already selling – not just listing but actually selling – copies on eBay for $9.99 plus postage. The cover price is $2.99 but copies have sold out at distribution level, a second print is anounced and it[...]

No, I'm not talking about Batgirl After all, she's gone from kneeling to standing I'm talking about Voodoo. It was always a title that was prone to receive criticism Voodoo #1, reboots the Wildstorm character, a member of WildCATS and last written in a solo book by Alan Moore The revamp is written by someone better[...]

This indicates that the print run may have been set before the due date for orders, and a rush of sell throughs on the first print and pushed orders far higher than DC expected on the second print. And joining Justice League #1 in the sellout stakes comes news that both Action Comics #1 and Batgirl[...]

The New York Post is running a preview of Batgirl #1 today. Co-publisher Jim Lee said that while the relaunched character will be younger, they're keeping her time as a paralytic as part of her history. "We thought when you see her recovering from that, it would continue to add nuance and depth to the character," he[...]

Bleeding Cool pointed out James Robinson's metatextaual examination of his run on Justice League, audience reception and what will be happening to the characters that have been placed in limbo for their DC Relaunch. ***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS***SPOILERS*** The week before,  Bryan Q Miller and Pere Perez gave Batgirl a slightly more graceful metatextual farewell to Stephanie Brown as Batgirl[...]

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; One of the most interesting stories San Diego Comic Con this year was that of the "Batgirl of San Diego" – a Stephanie Brown Batgirl cosplayer who grilled DC executives at panel-after-panel about the lack of both strong female superheroes and the lack of female creators in the DC universe. The[...]

From South Fellini Studios, written by Tony Trov and Johnny Zito, and drawn by Aluisio Cervelle Santos, comes this World's Finest celebration of the Stephanie Brown and Kara Zor-El iteration of Batgirl and Supergirl, before the DC Relaunch has its wicked way with them "Batgirl and Supergirl battle for the life of the mayor's son[...]

Eric Glover writes for Bleeding Cool; Thinking over three reactions to an article on the Barbara Gordon controversy About a month ago, I wrote an op-ed on DC Comics' decision to super-glue the severed spinal cord of a paralyzed character and have her skipping on two legs again – "Give Batgirl The Chair" Long story [...]

Today she has mostly been drawing Despair and Barnabas. I'd love to by her something featuring Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Woman Just saying In case any beancounters are reading. This weekend, I bought my six year old daughter the new Lil' Endless Storybook by Jill Thompson Today she has mostly been drawing Despair and Barnabas. I'd love[...]

Pretty cool. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Comics Listens To Batgirl, Makes Changes At San Diego Comic Con, one thing you couldn't escape from at the DC panels was the issue of gender Thanks to one woman (known as Kyrax2 on Twitter) dressed as the Stephanie Brown Batgirl who went to all of the panels to ask question,[...]