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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,[...]

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, then follow up question, then follow up question, creating a narrative across the show, asking about the lack of female creators in the new DCU and the lack of prominent[...]

Written by Dan DiDio and published in DC comic books with a cover date of November 2009 Less than two years later... Here's the full blast from the past

With Karen Healey recounting to the audience the example of Stephanie Brown's (Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl) death in the DC comics and her lack of memorial case in the Batcave. Luckily Dylan Horrocks was one of the writers of the crossover event in which this happened, working on Batgirl, and was able to explain the workings of[...]

There's no news on Nightwing #1, seen on Bleeding Cool earlier today. But what IGN also show, mistakenly it seems, as thumbnails attached to the story, is the Catwoman #1 and Batwoman #1 covers we showed earlier today… and the cover of what appears to be another Bleeding Cool reveal, Batgirl #1. Here it is all big… [...]

And here they all are. 32 DC female characters in one drawing, from the true master of comic book industry satire, Fred Hembeck. I count him as one of my